Category: HISTORY
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My favourite modernist building … Jellicoe Towers
Jellicoe Towers advertising brochure, 1966. Artist: Allan Wild
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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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Time for NZ’s Memorial Park Precinct to officially be heritage?
Is this Armistice anniversary the time to ask “Should Pukeahu be formally declared a heritage area?” The opening of Pukeahu during ANZAC celebrations this year was an acknowledgement of the past but also of the ability of heritage to contribute to the future.
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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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Michael Graves – PoMo gone to the grave
Too soon for bad-taste comments? Sorry Michael – I never knew you at all, but with a name like Graves you’ve probably had those jokes all your life. A life which has just ended – yes, sadly, the world’s greatest Post-Modern architect has, like the architectural style that he helped spawn, passed away. Far be…
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Architects Draw: history
Drawing has been a staple of an architect’s profession for longer than architecture has been a profession …
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Poor process or RMA problems?
Last Sunday (12th October) John Key announced that the Housing Accords legislation would be incorporated into the Resource Management Act (RMA), and that the Basin Board of Inquiry was evidence of a need to combine sections 6 and 7, and include a reference to “infrastructure” in this new section in an amended RMA.