Archive for the ‘Exhibition’ Category
Monday, August 21st, 2017
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. (more…)
Tags:housing manifesto, manifesto for housing, Wellington Bus Terminal
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Saturday, November 1st, 2014
Hugh Ferriss “Metropolis of Tomorrow” (c.1929)
Drawing has been a staple of an architect’s profession for longer than architecture has been a profession … (more…)
Tags:Acqua Felice, Andrea Palladio, Antonine column, architectural drawing, Carceri, Cenotaphe a Newton, centrally-planned church, charity auction, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Daniel Libeskind, Deuxieme projet pour la Bibliotheque du Roi, Domenico Francia, Edgar Allen Poe, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Giovanni Guerra, Greek cross plan, Hugh Ferriss, Lateran, Le Delizia della Villa di Castellazzo, Lebbeus Woods, Marc'antonio dal Re, Mauro Oddi, Metropolis of Tomorrow, Natalie de Girolamo Bonifazio, Nero, obelisk, Parma, piazza, Pope Sixtus V, quadratura, Rome, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Santa Maria della Steccata, Santa Maria Maggiore, Santa Marie del Popolo, St Peter's basilica, Teatro Olimpico, Trajan column, trompe-l'oeil, urban design, Vatican, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Zaha Hadid
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Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Mid September (18-22 September 2014 to be exact) saw four small gabled forms inhabiting the uncompromisingly urban space of Trafalgar Square in London. (more…)
Tags:A Place to Call Home, England, home, house, Jasper Morrison, London, Mary Douglas, part house, Patternity, pumicelands, Raw Edges Design Studio, Rotorua, Studioilse, Trafalgar Square
Posted in EVENTS OTHER, Exhibition, urban design | Comments Closed
Monday, June 27th, 2011
The Wellington City Council has at last started the process of telling you about WGTN 2040, the proposed Vision for the future – 29 years in the future to be exact.
It has been a long time coming – a couple of years at least, but this is one of the most important consultations that the Council has ever asked the Wellington public for their opinion on. (more…)
Tags:WGTN 2040
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
For those of you who have been asleep under a rock for a while, you may not have heard about the Meridian Firstlight House that is being assembled on Frank Kitts Park this week.
If you’ve managed to escape the (more…)
Tags:Firstlight, Modular Housing
Posted in Exhibition, News | 9 Comments »
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
This time at the Overseas Passenger Terminal, in the evening.
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