Category: HISTORY
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Long Live the Modern Bus Tour2
A bus tour of Modernist buildings in Wellington (Sunday 14 March). On Sunday Architect Bill Toomath will also be aboard, and will speak briefly about his design for the Wellington Teacher’s College in Karori. Julia Gatley is the bus tour guide and also the curator of Long Live the Modern, showing at TheNewDowse from 31…
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Long Live the Modern Bus Tour1
A bus tour of Modernist buildings in the Hutt Valley (Saturday 13 March) with Julia Gatley (curator of the Long Live the Modern show at the New Dowse). Visit www.newdowse.org.nz for further details.
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Architecture as punishment
It’s a bit of an old chesnut but here we go again – lock ’em up and throw away the keys. This week it seems that Act and National are convinced that humanity can’t do what architecture is so good at – incarceration. Their addition to the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill, if enacted, will…
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Architecture of the Basin
The Architectural Centre, having just put in a submission on the future of Wellington in the year 2040, where we had the pleasure of looking at the city as a whole, are of the opinion that in 30 years time the city will be very different from what we have now. Traffic needs of the…
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The indefatigable Mr. Walker
Yes, brought to you by Home NZ and us – following fast on the footsteps of Sharon Jansen – is Roger Walker, architect, Ferrari owner, and tv showman, coming to a Cafe L’Affare near you.
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New Zealand House
Not just any old New Zealand house, this is about THE New Zealand House. Hitting the news this week, and probably the gutter / talk back radio as well: Taxpayers face a $150 million bill to renovate New Zealand House in London – $23m more than the building’s book value. The newspaper seems
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bete comme un vrai architecte?
So where have the loquacious architects gone? Have architects become, like the tradition of French painters, dumb… ‘bete’ also suggesting ‘beast’, an animal without speech. It is true isn’t it? If you think of the Athfields and Walkers, not to mention the Fowlers and Waldens, architects used to be rampant orators, at times difficult to…
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Video of the Week XVII: heritage of course
A nice reminder of that there’s potential and merit in almost every architectural addition … or “repurposing” … Compelling juxtapositions and more!!
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Maori Architecture
Those of you with sharp eyes, or even sharp ears, will have seen, or heard, of Deidre Brown’s new book Maori Architecture.