Author: AC Admin
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The Flickr Travelogues – architectural eye-candy from Hamburg
The Flickr photo-sharing website is an amazing resource for the virtual tourist – oh the places I have virtually been to… It is, of course, only a visual form of travel, but we here in the antipodes have coped with books, magazines and slide shows when learning about architecture for quite some time – and no…
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Video of the Week I: Architecture stripped bare
(Warning – this clip features artistic and architectural nudity…) You know you’re in trouble when the opening and closing lines of a short architecture-related video are thus: “What happens if you ask architects to let rip… …Really, architects are at their best when they’re fully dressed [muffled snigger], very serious, and just a little bit…
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The Latest Newsletter is now out
Yep, unlike last year, when there was the occasional newsletter trailing its official dates, we’ve started this year almost ahead of schedule. The January:February 2009 issue of the newsletter is now out featuring articles on: Guerilla Gardening, Holiday Reading, WCC politics, the new Chinese Garden in Dunedin and of course a bit of poetry. It…
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WCC heritage grants
# RANTINGYou may have seen the current issue of City Life (13-19 Jan 08). Page 3 presents some ideas the council has regarding saving money given the “credit crunch.” At the top of the third column is “Ending the heritage grants scheme for building owners.” My understanding is that this is one of the few pots…
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Cuba Carnival – 21/22 Feb 2009
coming soon: Cuba Carnival – the noisy raucous weekend for Wellington
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Welcome to the new Website
One of our hard-working members, Thanh Nguyen, has rebuilt our website. Our old site was up and running for over 3 years – we’re hoping that this website will be easier to administer and update. We’re doing some ‘running in’ of the website to start, so please bear with us while we experiment.
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One day Symposium: ‘from over-sweet cake to wholemeal bread’ – New Zealand Architecture in the 1940s
Date: Friday 5th December 2008 Venue: School of Architecture, Victoria University, Wellington There will be a screening of films of NZ 1940s architecture at the NZ Film Archive on the evening of Thursday 4th December. In addition, on Saturday 6th there will be a Docomomo(NZ) meeting organised by Julia Gatley. For more information about the…
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School of Architecture & Design Exhibition
When: Wednesday November 5, 2008 (up for 2 weeks) Where: School of Architecture, Vivian Street. Work by the 2008 final year students.
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Exhibition : Tangent
When: November 7 – 18, 2008 Where: all around town. The annual end of year exhibtion of the Visual Arts, Interior and Digital Media design programmes at Weltec see programme details.
