Category: HISTORY
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My favourite modernist building … Civic Administration Building
“Ugly,” “monstrosity,” “sticking out like a sore toe,” “heavy and sombre,” “stark,” “awfully severe,” “Elwood’s erection” –
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Aniwaniwa: “Who should decide?”
The news that the Department of Conservation will demolish John Scott’s Aniwaniwa
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My favourite modernist building … Villa Savoye
Modern Memories by MM My earliest memory of modern architecture was watching a reel-to-reel movie in an old pre-fab at intermediate.
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My favourite modernist building … Computer Centre (Stage One), University of Canterbury
Stage One of the University’s Computer Centre (now known as Angus Tait, Hall & McKenzie, 1965-66) is a building that I have long enjoyed
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My favourite modernist building … Symonds St Flats, Auckland
I first discovered the elegant curve of the Symonds St Flats in the early 1980s
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My favourite modernist building … Seddon Street Cooperative Shops, Naenae, 1946
Their faces responded to the projected image of ‘my favourite local building’ all too predictably:
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My favourite modernist building … Ohakuri Hydro Power Station
The modernist building that stands out for me is the Ohakuri hydro power station
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My favourite modernist building … Kiddle bach
Kiddle Bach, Waimarama, Hawkes Bay (John Scott, 1970s) In the early 1970s my grandparents bought a beachfront section in Waimarama