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  • Register now for NZSEE design competition

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  • Japan Travel Award

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  • sexy buildings or vanity fair?

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    Yesterday stuff.co.nz posted an article on the ‘Top 10 Sexiest Buildings’. http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/4174312/Top-10-sexiest-buildings A list of anything starting with ‘Top 10’ will always be controversial and provoke debate.  The selection will always be subjective so perhaps it is not the list itself that is important, but the questions that it raises.

  • chile post-earthquake

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    5:30pm drinks/6pm start, Thursday 30th September LT1, School of Architecture Victoria University, Vivian St Members of the recent, interdisciplinary New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineers reconnaissance mission to Chile, discuss potential insights for New Zealand. This should be a very interesting discussion given the recent earthquake in Christchurch. Peter Smith: structural engineer, Spencer Holmes, Wellington…

  • ideas for christchurch

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    A week after the earthquake in Canterbury the aftershocks are still continuing but the clean up is underway and demolition has already started with calls for less haste in the wielding of the wrecking ball and now the debate begins on how to rebuild the city.

  • The City and the City

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    So, I’ve just finished reading China Miéville’s novel The city and the city – the first novel I’ve actually made it through in quite some time. Courtesy of Wikipedia, here is the low-down on the dual cities that are the main character/s of the book: The City & The City takes place in the cities of Besźel and…

  • Stirling efforts

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    Architectural prizes: love them or hate them? In New Zealand, we seem to have a growing number – of course, the more you have, the lesser the value to those that get selected. We have, of course, the NZIA, and their award giving scheme. At one stage, many years ago, only one prize was given…

  • The concrete layer cake of my childhood

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    As a child growing up in Dunedin, the curious behemoth of layered concrete known as the Dunedin Public Library (designed by the City Council’s Architectural Division) always had a seemingly omnipresent feel as a ‘civic surveyor’ of the Octagon city-scape.

  • Shape-shifting interior

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    Looking to maximize space in your apartment? If so, then the following apartment in Hong Kong may be for you… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak

  • Dave Mitchell on Wellington circa 1984

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    Yes its finally online for all of us to enjoy… ‘on demand’…