Category: News

  • Ba bam booo!

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    I guess the first thing I should say is that – I know very little about cars.

  • Motor City

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    I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on…

  • Wellington Whare Waka

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    A new building awaits us on Wellington waterfront. Opening early on Waitangi Day this coming weekend, the new Whare Waka is being officially named and declared open. We’re going to devote some room to an an-depth discussion of the building in our next Arch Centre newsletter, due out soon, where we will have a full…

  • Weltec BDes – Going out with a BANG

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    After 20 successful years, Wellington’s original Bachelor of Design (Interior Design) program, delivered first through CIT and more recently Weltec, is rolling up. The 2010 graduating year of students would love for members of the Wellington Architectural Centre to come and celebrate their “Practical Completion”  with an exhibition @ 39 Dixon Street. Opening on Friday…

  • global urbanism

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    5:30pm drinks/6pm start, Thursday 23rd September LT1, School of Architecture Victoria University, Vivian St Mark Tyrrell: Urbanist, Landscape Architect, Lecturer, University of Sydney, University of NSW, Sydney Dr Regan Potangaroa: Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Unitec, Auckland Mark was a recent winner of Landscape Australia’s ‘Unbuilt’ competition for this work.  Mark Tyrrell, Sydney urbanist and…

  • Invercargill leads the way.

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    Quite alot happens at the edges of our roads.

  • The Carbuncle Cup

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    In all of the current hoohaa surrounding Prince Charles’s latest intervention in the UK architectural scene, we can at least acknowledge his contribution to the field with his (in)famous descriptor “monstrous carbuncle”, with which he originally described the proposed Sainsbury Wing extension to London’s National Gallery (Prince Charles’s opposition led to the dropping of the…

  • International Olympic Competition (for Kiosks)

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    With a tip of the Hat to the inimitable BLDGBLOG, we’re delighted to inform you of an international competition to design service kiosks for the 2012 Olympics in London’s east end. Stratford, to be precise, at the end of the Jubilee Line. Yes, its a long way from here in New Zealand – but hey,…

  • Performance Architecture – design or default?

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    Downstage in association with Toi Whakaraari Invite you  to a special event: Performance Architecture – design or default? Jean–Guy LeCat is a world authority on theatre design and performance architecture having made his name creating spaces for Peter Brook for over 30 years. He is here in Wellington and will be giving a lecture at…

  • Solar Decathlon launches

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    There is a project going on at Victoria University, that is a pretty exciting development on the New Zealand architectural scene. I know that you might be thinking that the All Whites scoring 1 – 1 against the Italians is good – believe me when I tell you this is even better. Right now I’m…