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Futuna event
FUTUNA – TO THE FUTURE – 24th Feb – evening event Presentation on the work of the Trust in the saving of the Chapel, planning for restoration works for a Heritage listed building, preparation and process of Resource Consent and Building Consent documentation, programming of building works, recording
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Before and After
An exhibition: Before / After, recently opened in Christchurch at the Art Gallery, regarding the September earthquake and subsequent aftershocks down in Canterbury. A link to their website is here. It notes: “Let’s build a better Canterbury BEFORE AFTER is an exhibition and discussion series that explores our built environment and seeks to connect with…
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Soviet Modernism 1955-85
Friday 8 April – evening lecture Vladimir Belogolovsky, the founder of New York based Intercontinental Curatorial project NZIA in conjunction with School of Architecture
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Futuna – to the Future
Friends of Futuna Chapel Charitable Trust 50th Anniversary celebrations 18, 19 and 20 March 2011 Designed by architect John Scott for the Society of Mary in 1959,
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The Problem with Plishke
Adam Art Gallery and the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington presents The Problem of Plischke Symposium – Saturday 19 February 2011 – 11am – 5pm Alan MacDiarmid Building, Rooms 102 + 104, Kelburn Campus,
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Motor City
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…
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On your books
Welcome back to work. We know that the construction industry winds down and goes to sleep for a while over the holidays, and so does the architectural world – but everyone seems to be back at work now and ready to go, praying for a better year than 2010. So: what is on your books…
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Earthquake Ideas Competition
This just in, for those keen to let their imaginations run free over the summer holidays – an ideas competition on forestalling earthquake damage before it even happens. Full details available at the NZ Society for Earthquake Engineering Pcee.nzsee.org.nz/designcomp.htm This competition seeks proposals to increase the resilence of cities and communities affected by earthquakes and…
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Apple of my eye
On a recent visit to New York, there were many things that caught my eye, but one store in particular appeared to be attracting a lot of attention. The Apple stores, crisply detailed completely out of glass, is quite a startling construction – architecture that almost isn’t there. Yes, it is glass, but it is…