Tag: Architectural Centre

Can ugly buildings be heritage?

Sep 3, 2016

# Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY

This question responds to the idea that ugliness
My favourite modernist building … Symonds St Flats, Auckland

Aug 30, 2016

# Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY

I first discovered the elegant curve of the Symonds St Flats in the early 1980s
70th Anniversary Awards

Jul 15, 2016

# AC EVENTS

The Architectural Centre’s 70th anniversary is next week on Saturday 23rd July. In order to acknowledge this milestone, we have instituted 17 special 70th anniversary awards. The awards categories and current nominations are:
Gordon Wilson Memorial Flats | 320 The Terrace

Dec 18, 2015

# AC History, Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings

The Gordon Wilson Flats on The Terrace are under threat [again],
70 next year | how do we compare?

Nov 5, 2015

# AC History, Architectural History

Yes, so we’re 70 next year, and the committee is working away at thinking about what this means and how we should celebrate.
1946 was an eventful year

Apr 28, 2009

# AC History, HISTORY, RANTING

Of course everyone knows that the Arch Centre was born – no doubt on a dark and windy Wellington evening – on Tuesday the 23rd of July 1946 in the Baronia Lounge.