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Category: 20under40

  • 20 under 40 results 2011

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    The 20under40 competition has been completed for another year – and here’s a post to wrap up the results. Every year (or two) we run a competition to see how a collection of brilliant young architectural minds can work, in the challenging atmosphere of a 24 hour design competition. We start at 6pm one night,…

  • Here it comes!

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    We are finally having a 20 under 40 competition! Registration and briefing will occur at 6pm Friday March 4th, at the School of Architecture and Design, VUW – Vivien Street. Submission is the same time and place the following evening, with a party to follow (venue ProductSpec, Holland Street). Judging will be announced Sunday at…

  • 20 under 40 2011

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    ALL REGISTRATION FEES WILL BE DONATED TO THE RED CROSS EARTHQUAKE APPEAL Registration and briefing will occur at 6pm Friday March 4th, at the School of Architecture and Design, VUW – Vivien Street. Submission is the same time and place the following evening, with a party to follow (venue ProductSpec, Holland Street). Judging will be…

  • 20under40 24hr Design Competition 2010 (now 2011)

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  • A PLAY on TIME – 20under40 – 2009

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    Returning in early 2009 after an absence of a couple of years, the 20 under 40 competition was once more staged by Arch Centre, this time with a concentration on the more relaxed side of Architecture – namely, a Play on Time. The brief was a short and gruesome one, set in the near distant…

  • 20 under 40 – and the winner is….

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    The winner of the First Prize is this very tasty looking orange blob! … More details later on the others – in the mean time, to keep you happy, here are some pictures of the entries and the entrants in the competition… … … …

  • Top Secret 20under40 upload page

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    Put simply: 1.The Minister of Architecture was putting together a proposal. 2.It was to be for the Stadium Concourse. 3.It was to lighten the collective depression of the 2030’s by focusing on the potential of PLAY. 4.It was for 1000 people. 5.Now he is horribly, spectacularly dead. 6.His notes are a mess. 7.We need your…

  • Is Nutrition the Answer to Everything?

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    Riding my bike into work this morning, the regular squeeze between car and kerb was suggesting immaterialisation would be my only option. Bloody SUVs. Why do they make cars so wide these days? Easy you say – because we are wider.

  • 20under40 : 2006 : Irrevocable Irrelevance

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    DATE: 15-16th September 2006 SITE: Oaks complex, from the City by Dixon, Cuba and Ghuznee streets ORGANISERS: Don Roy, Alain Bruner, Emily Reich, Greta Stoutjesdijk, Eloise Veber, James Shaw, Steve Marshall JUDGES: Gordon Holden, Morten Gjerde, Sally Woods, Louise Ryan BRIEF: Irrevocable Irrelevance Is It Too Late? Unfettered development is rampant! Our cities are being…

  • URBAN VIGILANTE – 20under40 competition (2005)

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    Presented with 20u40-brief-2005 and the anihilation of public space, this year’s Wellington Architectural Centre’s 20U40 contestants made architecture from a green fluid jelly composite, hairstyling, equine transport, cartoon graphics, projected images, passport implants, garbage, and music videos. With an appropriate theme for election year, the brief set the scene with the recent political victory of…