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NZ Honours
In today’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List, primarily headed up by Knighthoods for people involved with sausages, rugby, and giant wetas, there is just one solitary award for Architecture. Maurice Edward Mahoney, long time work partner of the long-since gonged Miles Warren,
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Congratulations TVNZ (I think)…
50 years of broadcasting – no mean feat, I guess, but then, let’s take a moment to look at what we have been served up over those 5 decades:
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For Sale by tender: CLASSIC MEDITERRANEAN HILLSIDE HOME
Actually, neither a classic, nor Mediterranean, but I guess Real Estate Agents run out of descriptors fairly quickly when a house doesn’t have conventional character appeal, nor potential to stamp your own personality on it (via the insatiable kiwi attitude for DIY of course). “Outstanding views” (back across the harbour to Wellington City) are of course the opening…
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Dystopia arrives, finally…
Who needs futurists these days, when we can get our fix of sci-fi dystopian future apocalypse right now in the present… (click on the image for it all big and beautiful).
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For He’s a jolly good Fellow!
It’s official our President is a Fellow, and the NZIA have also realised this. Well done Guy – you are now a recognised part of the NZIA institution. Our official word (if a word can be official without being sanctioned by the President) is congratulations for having become a Fellow of the NZIA at the…
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a little more flippancy
Yes they’ve done it again … The Women’s Weekly have another Word Search with an Architectural Theme. The words to find are: Balcony, Column, Corridor, Cupola, Design, Excavation, Facade, Flooring, Foundations, Fresco, Geodesic dome, Glazed, Mantelpiece, Mezzanine floor, Panel, Partition, Passage, Pillars, Roof, Shutter, Spiral staircase, Stud, Tiles, Transom, Truss, Vestibule. Bonus points for: Butanol,…
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Built Fabric exhibition opening – 4th March
You are warmly invited to the opening of the next exhibition at Toi Poneke Gallery Built Fabric Mizuho Nishioka & Tane Moleta Thursday 4 March, 5.30pm Built Fabric is an exhibition of two different mediums – photography and architectural drawing. Both artists explore the idea that the constructed, or built, environments exist as representations of our…
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Toomath Houses
On Sunday 7th March we’re having a Site Visit to visit a couple of special Bill Toomath houses, for the first 30 people to rsvp to arch@architecture.org.nz – we’ll be taking off from the City Gallery at 2.00pm and returning you about 4.00pm. There’s a small $5 cover charge, and afternoon tea will be provided.…
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Wellington 2040 – our vision
If you’ve come here today from reading the Capital Times – then welcome! We’ve been around since 1946, and provide a voice on architecture, design, and urban issues in Wellington. The current issue of the Capital Times has picked up on our submission for Wellington 2040 – a Council run call for submissions on what…