Category: EVENTS OTHER

  • Lecture and film screening of Oscar Niemeyer’s “Life is a Breath of Air”

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    When : 6.00pm, Wednesday 8th April 2009 Where : LT1 Faculty of Architecture and Design VUW 139 Vivian Street, Wellington niemeyer-poster

  • Public Lecture @ Massey :: Jane Rendell :: Monday 30th

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    VENUE: Theatrette 10A02: Old Dominion Museum Building, Wellington DATE & TIME: Monday 30th March at 5:30pm Site-Writing: Subjectivity and Positionality in Criticism. A rare opportunity to hear a guest lecture by Professor Jane Rendell (Bartlett, London) She will speak on current research and design work in relation to interdisciplinary meeting points – feminist theory and architectural history,…

  • Mock Deco

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    Following on from my previous comments on the great work of the Art Deco Trust in Napier, its also worth looking at the efforts, some good, some bad, of architects and others who have tried to replicate the art deco look in that city. There were 3 good heritage buildings knocked down, with two of…

  • Letting Dwell – exhibition by Tim Larkin & Luke Feast

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    Where: The New Dowse, Lower Hutt When: till May 10 Tim Larkin won the 2008 Deane Award for Decorative Arts with a proposal based on the long-redundant, yet highly efficient food safe. Larkin, writer Luke Feast and photographer Pete McColl, have created a body of work that explores the food safe and its unique architectural…

  • One Day Sculpture Symposium : Jane Rendell (keynote)

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    CRITICAL SPATIAL PRACTICE : A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY JANE RENDELL THURSDAY 26 MARCH 2009, 6PM SOUNDINGS THEATRE, TE PAPA, WELLINGTON Keynote lecture costs $15 waged / $10 unwaged Coordinators of the One Day Sculpture Project, hosted by Massey University as a Litmus Research Initiative, are please to invite the Wellington architectural community to participate in…

  • Art Deco

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    The Art Deco Trust in Napier, has recently celebrated its 21st annual Art Deco Weekend, which has grown every year since its inception in the 80s. I was lucky enough to have attended the latest one, with several thousand attendees – a far cry from the very first Art Deco Weekend that I helped organise,…

  • The craft of boat-making

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    If you are keen on craft, this weekend’s Plimmerton Boating Club will likely be the place to be. In addition to an exhibition of boat-building and artistic use of boat-building techniques, the annual Classic and Wooden Boat Festival will be a chance to see some unique and beautiful boats in action. I have to admit…

  • Documentary Film Festival (Wellington)

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    The Wellington season of the DOCNZ 2009 Documentary Film Festival is on sooon! This year the films are screening at Hoyts Regent on Manners. Festival includes world premiere of ‘Architect of Dreams‘ about Ian Athfield. New Zealand 2008 / 52min, Director Geoffrey Cawthorn. Producer Richard Riddiford.

  • Aren’t Street Closures Fantastic?

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    At this very moment Courtney Place is under “Road Closure” while things are being set up for the glories of the Cuba St Carnival culminating in one of the best Wellington events of our calendar – the Cuba St Carnival Parade. But this is not only evidence of impending celebration but also a sample of…

  • Redesign L.A. – or it’s transport

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    Feeling a little short of work at the moment? Like to have a try at solving the transport woes of one of the world’s most snarled up, congested cities? Hear those voices calling you from on high? No, its not Christmas carols coming super early for ’09: The City of the Angels is calling for…