Category: HISTORY
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My favourite modernist building … Bulls Water Tower
It’s not my favourite structure, not by a long shot, but I have some affection for it as my first long-term encounter with modern architecture.
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Te Urewera National Park Visitor Centre – Aniwaniwa
Do we care enough about New Zealand’s architectural heritage?
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So why is modernism so important?
So why modernism is important?
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My favourite modernist building … Cashmere Community Centre
I grew up with the commissioning, construction and early life of the Cashmere Community Centre
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My favourite modernist building … Puaka-James Hight and Matariki
In a culture that favours surface over substance, and visual sensation over bodily sensation,
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My favourite modernist building … Toronto City Hall (TCH)
As I have not had much of a chance to spend time with many of my favourite Modernist projects of all time …
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My favourite modernist building … PSA Tower
I’ve really struggled with this little task
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My favourite modernist building … NZ Racing Conference Building
As a newcomer to living in Wellington, I was smitten
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My favourite modernist building …. Freyberg Pool
I was meant to be an Olympic swimmer. My parents had determined this fate from birth,
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My favourite modernist building … Massey House
If you look up as you march down the west side of Lambton Quay, keeping left with the obedient public servants, you will notice twenty circular lights underneath the awning for Massey House (Plishke and Firth, 126-132 Lambton Quay, Wellington).