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  • Recent & future Arch Centre site visits – what say you?

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    We have been pleased by the positive feedback that we have received from members who took advantage of our recent house visits, and would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the efforts and hospitality of Jane Black (Black House visit), Jule Einhorn and Di Austin (Einhorn House visit) and Bob White (Renwick House visit).      Viewing…

  • To Cycle or Not to Cycle: Air Pollution and Transportation

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    Some of you will have noticed that yesterday (Monday 2 March) Campbell Live did a piece on air pollution.  Here are the links to the video and to the accompanying text.

  • Ian Athfield on National Radio

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    On Sunday 1st of March, Chris Laidlaw interviewed Athfield about ‘the role of architecture in our society and on our environment.’ The Podcast can be accessed from here.

  • Hurrah for National Radio

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    Yes I know we’re all meant to say “Radio NZ: National” but National Radio rolls off the tongue so much easier. Anyway this weekend has had a number of interviews etc. which will be of interest to members. On Saturday Kim Hill interviewed Reid Ewing, Professor of City and Metropolitian Planning at the University of…

  • Want Arch Centre updates direct to your reader?

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    Try pasting the following feed address into your feed reader subscriptions: http://architecture.org.nz/feed/ m-d

  • Arch Centre member lights up the world…

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    “A challenging job” is how Arch Centre member and doctoral candidate at the VUW School of Architecture, Amardeep Dugar, describes his recent appointment as Lighting Consultant to the Global Vipassana Pagoda in Mumbai, India. The Global Vipassana Pagoda, which aspires to pay homage to Buddha and his teachings,is currently in the final stages of construction. It will be…

  • Transport Priorities

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    Kerry Williamson today revealed in the Dom Post the regional councils transport priorities. That is to say those which they are petitioning the Government for assistance with. The top Items, with budgets, are as follows: TOP TRANSPORT PRIORITIES: Western Link Road stage 1 (Waikanae to Paraparaumu), $82 million. State Highway 1 Basin Reserve upgrade and bus lanes improvement,…

  • Defining who we are, and what we do…

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    The Urban Dictionary seems to be the only way to keep up with the rapidly evolving vernacularisms of our urban teen culture – so, just how do today’s yoofs see the practice of architecture: Architect: An overworked and underpaid employee – of a pretentious registered practitioner of the arts (a prat). Many years in tertiary education have left the ‘architect’…

  • 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom

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    This looks rather cool – it’s an open design competition (you don’t even need to be a registered architect), run by Architecture for Humanity, in which you work as a partnership with a local school to develop a classroom design ‘for the future’. Architecture for Humanity is a “A volunteer non-profit organization set up to…

  • The Women’s Weekly is our Friend!

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    Ok so it’s only the Word Search puzzle – but it’s good to know that architecture gets even a small lookin in our popular press.  The puzzle is below and the words to find are: arch, casement, cornice, cross-beam, design, domed, facade, garret, girders, grouting, louvre window, newel, obelisk, partition, paving, posts, renovation, roof, sash,…