Category: AC EVENTS

  • Arch Centre Event : ‘The Brutalist’ – Jan 26, 2025

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    “When visionary architect László Toth (Brody) and his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client (Guy Pearce).” What: AC hosting screening of A24 movie The Brutalist When: 26th January, 2025. 16.30 (upstairs mezzanine) with movie starting…

  • Housing Manifesto

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    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.  

  • Arch Centre 70th awards: WINNERS

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    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:

  • 70th Anniversary Awards

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    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:

  • Climate march | Sustainable Cities Matter

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    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. 

  • Time is Money | Give an Hour

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    Welcome to the latest stage of our Basin Appeal fundraising campaign. 

  • Launch Pad 4: the Proposed Airways Tower

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                  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…

  • Launch Pad 3: Pukeahu: NWMP

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    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…

  • Launch Pad 2: Earthquake House

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    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…

  • Launch Pad 1: Affordable Housing

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                            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…