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  • The Flickr Travelogues – architectural eye-candy from Osaka

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    Welcome to Ando-ville – I’m sure there must be worse places in the world to live if volumetric formalism and concrete minimalism is your thing… There are, of course, other architectural firms at work in Osaka, but an Ando building just makes such a fine photograph. A series of images selected from a  Flickr keyword search: architecture/Osaka…

  • RMA changes…

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    The link to the SST article that discusses the proposed RMA changes is not operating at the moment, but I did manage to find this from David Farrar at Kiwiblog: RMA changes look positive February 1st, 2009 at 10:00 am The SST reports on likely changes to the RMA. They are: enable local councils to make planning…

  • Cantilever Action

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    From Brazil now, where architect Humberto Hermeto has produced the Casa BF: a stunning affirmation of the power of the cantilever. Faith in the ability of the structural engineer Carlos Fonseca is also strongly evident, with 16 columns in total, of which the front two are doing all the work – or at least getting…

  • At least we still have the Bledisloe Cup…

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    Having taken the Cricket World Cup, the World Netball Championships, and enough Olympic Gold to put a serious offer on the South Island, the Aussies look like a good bet to take out the WAN House of the Year 2008 as well. The ‘long list‘ of 30 contains entries from Argentina to Latvia, but the country…

  • Wind, billowing skirts, and Italian property investors…

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    Despite being talked up by hardy locals and the odd poet (and I mean odd), one of Wellington’s least endearing qualities is the incessant wind. The Encyclopedia of Chicago, that other famous Windy City, even attempts to shed the notion of Chicago being particular windy (in the climatic sense), by evoking: Wellington, New Zealand, where it…