Category: Comment

  • Auckland set to become New Zealand’s new capital

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    This would be the case if the latest Lonely Planet writer had their way. After calling Wellington “the coolest little capital in the world”, travel guide Lonely Planet is now suggesting that Auckland should be New Zealand’s capital city. http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/new-zealand/4332153/Lonely-Planet-reignites-debate But would it be logical or practical or is there even any point?

  • The Rock – Preview

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    The Rock – Preview This week the Wellington Airport took the bold step of inviting a number of architects and property people to have a preview of The Rock, prior to its official opening next week. The preview was not only the first chance for us to look around the building but, as the hoardings…

  • Manchester, Christchurch

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    The earthquake that happened in Christchurch just over a month ago now is claiming its first tall victim. While the country is ecstatic that the series of quakes has caused no deaths to Cantabrians, there is a pretty gloomy feeling amongst certain lovers of modern heritage buildings that time is nearly up for the Manchester…

  • The Group, the Book, a Review

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    Group Architects – Towards a New Zealand Architecture “We New Zealanders live in a chaos of unplanned speculative building under an unthinking, self-seeking system of land sub-division. Our suburbias spread their tentacles along all the city traffic routes; our children cross streets to get to school; our wives buy in inadequate and too-distant shops lining…

  • The Truth about the iPad?

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    The Architectural Centre has always been a forum for discussions about architecture and broader issues of design.

  • Roger Hay

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    Roger Hay, Architect, long time Arch Centre member, recent Fellow of the NZIA, tireless battler for the rights of the disabled and a scourge of incompetent officialdom everywhere, has died aged 76. Roger will be missed by many for his tireless championing of the rights of the disabled and for his work on revising the…

  • Invercargill leads the way.

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    Quite alot happens at the edges of our roads.

  • … quiet Modernism

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    He might not be well-known, but if he was it would be for the design of the Freyberg Pool (1963).

  • Wild Weather

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    A mid-1960s Archigram film announced: “When it’s raining in Oxford Street the architecture is no more important that the rain.”

  • … the beauty of arcades …

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    There’s something pretty wonderful about St Kevin’s Arcade on K’ Rd in Auckland.  I think the coffee even tastes better because of the intricacy of the architectural space.