Category: Heritage Buildings
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My favourite modernist building … Wanganui War Memorial Hall
It seems very restrictive to be limited to one favourite modernist building,
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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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My favourite modernist building … Rees Townhouses
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.
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My favourite modernist building … INDEX
Here’s an index to the various entries of “My favourite modernist building …” and related posts
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My favourite modernist building … BNZ, Victoria St, Hamilton
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).
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ICI House: 61 Molesworth Street
Stephenson and Turner‘s elegant Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) House now stands in doubt,
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My favourite modernist building … Rietveld-Schroder House
This small 190m2 two level house (Utercht, 1924) located at the end of a row housing scheme in Utrecht is widely regarded as a masterpiece of early modernist architecture.
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My favourite modernist building … Old Wool House
In the late 1950s I had cause to visit Bernard Johns & Whitwell’s office one night,
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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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My favourite modernist building … Gordon Drake’s houses
When did “modernist” work start and finish?
