Author: AC Admin
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Video of the Week III: Pimp My Model
For those of us that remember our student days, or who still require the services of ‘X-Acto’ today, here’s a idea to help give that extra ‘bling’ to your design… Here’s the link to the youtube page if the above video misbehaves… It’s easy to see how the Harvard University Graduate School of Design gets such a prestigious reputation.…
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The Flickr Travelogues – architectural eye-candy from Osaka
Welcome to Ando-ville – I’m sure there must be worse places in the world to live if volumetric formalism and concrete minimalism is your thing… There are, of course, other architectural firms at work in Osaka, but an Ando building just makes such a fine photograph. A series of images selected from a Flickr keyword search: architecture/Osaka…
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RMA changes…
The link to the SST article that discusses the proposed RMA changes is not operating at the moment, but I did manage to find this from David Farrar at Kiwiblog: RMA changes look positive February 1st, 2009 at 10:00 am The SST reports on likely changes to the RMA. They are: enable local councils to make planning…
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Cantilever Action
From Brazil now, where architect Humberto Hermeto has produced the Casa BF: a stunning affirmation of the power of the cantilever. Faith in the ability of the structural engineer Carlos Fonseca is also strongly evident, with 16 columns in total, of which the front two are doing all the work – or at least getting…
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At least we still have the Bledisloe Cup…
Having taken the Cricket World Cup, the World Netball Championships, and enough Olympic Gold to put a serious offer on the South Island, the Aussies look like a good bet to take out the WAN House of the Year 2008 as well. The ‘long list‘ of 30 contains entries from Argentina to Latvia, but the country…
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James Shaw and Squint Opera
Our apologies: this event has been cancelled. We hope to be able to reschedule it for another time in the future. This Thursday 29th January: a coming event that I’m sure you’ll be keen to come along to. James Shaw, formerly of Wellington and now working with Squint Opera in London, is in town long…
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Wind, billowing skirts, and Italian property investors…
Despite being talked up by hardy locals and the odd poet (and I mean odd), one of Wellington’s least endearing qualities is the incessant wind. The Encyclopedia of Chicago, that other famous Windy City, even attempts to shed the notion of Chicago being particular windy (in the climatic sense), by evoking: Wellington, New Zealand, where it…
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Video of the Week II: Sony building melody step (some secret commands)
Who’d a thought getting from one level of a building top the next could be so much fun: these are the melody stairs from the Sony Building in Tokyo. Here’s a way to encourage more physical activity and less lift usage – just don’t put my office anywhere near the staircase. And apparently, you get…
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from the Similarity Files – or, “haven’t we met before?” Shaklee Terraces
Shaklee Terraces, 444 Market Street, San Francisco CA, United States Architect: Skidmore Owings Merrill, 1979 Isn’t this somewhat eerily familiar, in this pic at least (and a whole bunch of others by Thomas Hawk, which can be seen here)? While any similarities to a certain green building, completed in our own city almost a decade later (and with…
