Author: AC Admin
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Recent & future Arch Centre site visits – what say you?
We have been pleased by the positive feedback that we have received from members who took advantage of our recent house visits, and would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the efforts and hospitality of Jane Black (Black House visit), Jule Einhorn and Di Austin (Einhorn House visit) and Bob White (Renwick House visit). Viewing…
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A PLAY ON TIME – 20 under 40 design competition
Click here or use page link at the top’o’the page
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Video of the Week VII: The Architects Sketch
The Architect Sketch (by John Cleese and Graham Chapman) If some of you found that last week’s video resonated all to familiarly, then try this one on for size. It is a pretty famous Monty Python sketch, so there is a good chance that you’ll have seen it before, but it is definitely worth another…
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Site Visit: Einhorn & Toomath houses
Click on the invitation for a larger image. Just when the Modernist house becomes cool again (in terms of contemporary retro-modernist design at least), owners of the actual Modernist houses can’t wait to get out of theirs (actually, its not quite that simple) – giving us all a chance to view and perhaps make a purchase of authentic architecturally-designed heritage. …
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To Cycle or Not to Cycle: Air Pollution and Transportation
Some of you will have noticed that yesterday (Monday 2 March) Campbell Live did a piece on air pollution. Here are the links to the video and to the accompanying text.
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Documentary Film Festival (Wellington)
The Wellington season of the DOCNZ 2009 Documentary Film Festival is on sooon! This year the films are screening at Hoyts Regent on Manners. Festival includes world premiere of ‘Architect of Dreams‘ about Ian Athfield. New Zealand 2008 / 52min, Director Geoffrey Cawthorn. Producer Richard Riddiford.
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Ian Athfield on National Radio
On Sunday 1st of March, Chris Laidlaw interviewed Athfield about ‘the role of architecture in our society and on our environment.’ The Podcast can be accessed from here.
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Bad Taste: the horror inside NZ houses
# RANTINGThe culinary seems to be passé, with both the Arch Centre and the FishEye seeing fit to blog on food and design in recent days. Today though it’s bad taste, rather than taste, which appears to be de rigor. Peter Jackson’s 1987 cult classic, Bad Taste, while being “purely vulgar trash,” “brain splattering,” and “repulsive…
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Video of the Week VI: smack the pony – architects
Smack the Pony, according to Wikipedia, was a British sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003 on Channel 4 (some of you out there might have seen them?). Weirdly, its title was intended to sound like a euphemism for female masturbation – something I won’t tag this post with in case it gets too popular amongst a demographic that we are…
