Category: AC EVENTS
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Housing Manifesto
After the success of our 2006 Manifesto for Architecture, written to mark our 60th anniversary, we have this year, in the spirit of an election year with a strong focus on housing needs, launched the Architectural Centre’s Manifesto for Housing.
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Arch Centre 70th awards: WINNERS
It gives us great pleasure, on the occasion of our 70th birthday, to announce the winners of our 70th anniversary awards. Congratulations to all involved. The awards and winners are:
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70th Anniversary Awards
The Architectural Centre’s 70th anniversary is next week on Saturday 23rd July. In order to acknowledge this milestone, we have instituted 17 special 70th anniversary awards. The awards categories and current nominations are:
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Climate march | Sustainable Cities Matter
A beautiful day for the Climate March today, and great to see the combined collaboration between the Architectural Centre, NZILA (Wellington branch), NZIA (Wellington branch) and Architecture+Women.
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Time is Money | Give an Hour
Welcome to the latest stage of our Basin Appeal fundraising campaign.
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Launch Pad 4: the Proposed Airways Tower
Submissions on the first (for what seems like a very long time) notified Resource Consent – the proposed Airways Tower – are due on Friday the 29th March. The application is to “construct, operate and maintain a new 32.5 metre high air traffic control tower at the Airport…
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Launch Pad 3: Pukeahu: NWMP
In April this year, the National War Memorial Park | Pukeahu was opened. It was formally blessed on Wednesday 25th March, following which the site was host to numerous public events. The park, formed above an undergrounded Buckle St (now Arras tunnel), was speedily built to meet the centenary of ANZAC Day. So what kind…
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Launch Pad 2: Earthquake House
The mundune-looking Earthquake House has been with us since Te Papa opened in 1998. It simulates an aftershock of the 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake; the original quake being a magnitude 6.6. No doubt most parents (uncles, aunts and grandparents, babysitters …) have been dragged to the Earthquake House by shorter people. It’s now proposed that it…
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Launch Pad 1: Affordable Housing
It is more that obvious that housing affordability is now a perennial topic. The relatively new distinguishing of “affordable” from “social” housing is also becoming common place. Houses have long been important projects for architects. In Wellington, the WCC’s rejuvenation of its social…
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Energy-Efficiency & Sustainable Architecture CPD seminars
We have organised two CPD seminars (40 CPD pts each) on energy-efficiency and sustainable design.