Category: Video of the Week
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Christchurch On Screen
With impeccable timing, NZ On Screen have just published the Christchurch episode of The Elegant Shed – to go with the Wellington episode already onsite. “In this episode of the influential NZ architecture series, dapper tour guide David Mitchell looks at the ‘Christchurch Style’. He begins with the humble baches on Taylor’s Mistake’s cliffs, before…
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Directing traffic from the past…
It wasn’t so long ago, really, when the woes of Wellignton’s traffic congestion could be sorted out by one man with white gloves and thick black eyebrows… No flyovers here, just good old 8mm retro goodness of traffic congestion ala Wellington 1963 (before traffic lights came to town…)
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Making porridge pancakes: Te Aro Park
I haven’t been down to the container exhibition of WCC’s Wellington 2040 vision, but am looking forward to doing so soon. What I have seen is the recent post over on EyeoftheFish, which gives us a sneak preview of a small part of the type of outcome that might be expected to emerge from that vision:…
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Video of the Week – Future by Airbus
It has been a busy week here at the Architectural Centre website, but I couldn’t not post this one – so here is a little something for your Friday afternoon entertainment: Sweet!
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architectural moves
I really wanted to embed this video by Diana Wesser but it is disabled for embedding so you’ll just have to follow the link to youtube. Called Dancing Around Architect 1: inside the frame, it is part of a series with 2: office and 3: graffiti, but I think one is best. Wesser is a…
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Video of the Week XLII – Besti Flokkurinn
OK, so this one is doing the rounds at the moment, so pretty much old news, and it’s not really about architecture and design either – but just so funny, especially given that they are a ‘real’ party, who actually contested the recent Reykjavik City Council elections, and won 6 of the 15 seats.
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Video of the Week XLI – Frank Gehry, you’re a genius!
We’ve probably all seen this by now, but if you haven’t, it is that classic Simpson’s episode… I can’t find a better online version, but here you go anyway (click on the image below to get to the video page…)
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Video of the Week XL: Top 10 things you’ll never hear an architect say
From the “How to architect” series. The guy seems a little weird (well, quite a lot actually), but I thought this might be a nice bit of Friday afternoon edification… …not to be taken too seriously of course…
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Video of the Week XXXIX: LIGHT*HOUSE
3XN, UN Studio and Jan Gehl (advisors) waterfront development – “a new urban quarter” – no, not here in Wellington, unfortunately(?), but in Aarhus, Denmark… . . What do you think…?
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Video of the Week XXXVIII
Here’s a beaut music video – thanks to MD for unsubtly reminding of my slackness in the (so-called) video of the week!! The embed function in You-tube has been disabled so you’ll need to follow the link yourselves … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6X9fLLp0Y