Category: AC History
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Housing Manifesto
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.
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Karori Teachers College: VUW public meeting
Tomorrow night (Monday 6 March) is another public meeting about the fate of the VUW Karori Campus.
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RIP: Avis Higgs (1918-2016)
One of our former members died last Friday just after her 98th birthday.
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My favourite modernist building … Alington House
I last went to the Alington house (Karori, 1962) 20 years ago as part of the Architectural Centre’s 50th Anniversary.
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Arch Centre 70th awards: WINNERS
It gives us great pleasure, on the occasion of our 70th birthday, to announce the winners of our 70th anniversary awards. Congratulations to all involved. The awards and winners are:
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Gordon Wilson Memorial Flats | 320 The Terrace
The Gordon Wilson Flats on The Terrace are under threat [again],
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70 next year | how do we compare?
Yes, so we’re 70 next year, and the committee is working away at thinking about what this means and how we should celebrate.
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Marilyn Reynolds RIP
post by Gill Matthewson Marilyn Reynolds née Hart passed away on the 31st of August, an event that cannot go unremarked in architectural circles because she was one of the six signatories to the famed Group constitution in 1946.
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Roger Hay
Roger Hay, Architect, long time Arch Centre member, recent Fellow of the NZIA, tireless battler for the rights of the disabled and a scourge of incompetent officialdom everywhere, has died aged 76. Roger will be missed by many for his tireless championing of the rights of the disabled and for his work on revising the…
