Archive for the ‘HISTORY’ 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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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
It seems very restrictive to be limited to one favourite modernist building, (more…)
Tags:Acropolis, Campidoglio, Colin Rowe, Gordon Smith, Julia Gatley, Le Corbusier, Newman Smith & Greenough, Paul Walker, Sarjeant Gallery, Villa Savoye, wanganui, Wanganui Museum, Wanganui War Memorial Hall, Whanganui, Whanganui Mueseum
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Sunday, March 5th, 2017
Tomorrow night (Monday 6 March) is another public meeting about the fate of the VUW Karori Campus. (more…)
Tags:Bill Alington, Bill Toomath, Brutalism, brutalist architecture, Chris Brooke White, CIT Campus, Donald Street, Heritage New Zealand, Heritage NZ, Karori, Karori Teachers' College, Ministry of Education, NZHPT, NZIA, S. William Toomath, Victoria University, VUW, WCC, Wellington City Council, Wellington High School, Wellington Teachers College, William Toomath
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Sunday, March 5th, 2017
In New Zealand, there is a tradition of conserving ‘old’ buildings made of timber and stone. There is also a more recent ‘tradition,’ of owners and their architects who scrub their buildings so white, they look surgically enhanced, erasing all character and grace. (more…)
Tags:Claude Megson, Dominic Glamuzina, Franklin Road, Giles Reid, Hapua Street, Ponsonby, Rees Townhouses, Remuera
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
In February 1996 I arrived in Hamilton to take up a lecturing position at the University of Waikato. At pretty much the same time the Bank of New Zealand (Leigh, de Lisle & Fraser, 1965) in Victoria Street was demolished (1996). (more…)
Tags:Ann McEwan, Bank of New Zealand, BNZ, Chief Post Office, Hamilton, Hamilton Founders' Memorial Theatre, Leigh de Lisle & Fraser, SkyCity Casino
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Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Stephenson and Turner‘s elegant Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) House now stands in doubt, (more…)
Tags:61 Molesworth St, Bates Smart McCutcheon, Deloitte House, Futuna Trust, ICI House, Jim Allen, Karori, Rankine & Hill, Stephenson & Turner, Wellington City Council
Posted in Architectural History, Heritage Buildings | 1 Comment »
