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Category: AC COMPETITIONS

  • 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…