Posts Tagged ‘Architectural Centre’
Saturday, September 3rd, 2016
This question responds to the idea that ugliness (more…)
Tags:Alana Schetzer, Architectural Centre, Art Now and Then, beton brut, Boston, Boston City Hall, Brutal and Beautiful, Brutalism, Bryan Jefferson, Carbuncle Cup, Central Institute of Technology, Chris Brooke White, CIT, Dominion Post, Donald Tellalian, Edwardian, English Heritage, Felicity Lewis, Gordon Wilson Flats, Heretaunga, Jefferson Sheard, John P. Robarts Research Library, Kallman, Leslie Horn, Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones, Marcel Breuer, Mathers & Haldenby Architects, McKinnall & Knowles, MEA House, Melbourne, Ministry of Works, Molesworth Street, Moore St, Moore Street electricity substation, MoW, National Library, Newcastle, Pirelli Building, Pirelli Tire Building, Robarts Library, Sheffield, Simon Thurley, Terrace Flats, The Telegraph, ugliness, University of Toronto, Victorian, Wellington
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
I first discovered the elegant curve of the Symonds St Flats in the early 1980s (more…)
Tags:Architectural Centre, Auckland School of Architecture, Auckland University, Bates Smart McCutcheon, Berhampore Flats, Boyd, Cedric Firth, Centennial Flats, Department of Housing Construction, Dixon St Flats, Frederick Newman, Fredrich Neumann, Gordon Wilson, Gordon Wilson Flats, government architect, Grey's Avenue Flats, Greys Ave Flats, Grounds, Harry Seidler, Haywards Substation, Housing New Zealand, Housing NZ, Hutt Valley, Imi Porsolt, Ken Davis, Labour government, McIntyre, McLean Flats, Modernism, Mount Eden, My favourite modernist building, Otago University, Post-Modernism, Romberg, School of Dentistry, state housing, State Housing in New Zealand, Stephenson & Turner, Symonds Street Flats, Symons St Flats, the Group, University of Auckland, University of Otago, Upper Grays Avenue Flats, Victoria University
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Friday, July 15th, 2016
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: (more…)
Tags:70th anniversary, Architectural Centre, Awards
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Friday, December 18th, 2015
The Gordon Wilson Flats on The Terrace are under threat, (more…)
Tags:320 The Terrace, Alan Wild, Anthony Treadwell, Architectural Centre, Bill Alington, Dixon Street Flats, Ernst Plischke, Frederick Newman, Friedrich Neumann, Gordon Wilson, Gordon Wilson Flats, Gordon Wilson Memorial, Grey's Avenue Flats, Hazelcourt, Julia Gatley, London County Council, maisonette, Maraetai hydro-dam, Robert Matthew, Roxburgh hydro-dam, Tony Treadwell, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington City Council Flats
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Thursday, November 5th, 2015
Yes, so we’re 70 next year, and the committee is working away at thinking about what this means and how we should celebrate. (more…)
Tags:Amsterdam Centre for Architecture, Architectural Centre, Architectural League, Architectural Research Group, Architecture Centre, Architecture Foundation, Architekturforum Aedes, Architekturzentrum Wien, Arkitera Architecture Center, Auckland Architectural Association, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Centre of Contemporary Architecture, Chicago Architectural Foundation, CIAM, Congres International d'Architecture Moderne, Danish Architecture Centre, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, MARS, Modern Architectural Research Group, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Philadelphia Centre for Architecture, TAC, Te Putahi: Christchurch Centre for Architecture & City-making, Terreform ONE, The Architects Collaborative, the Group
Posted in AC History, Architectural History | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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. (more…)
Tags:Andrew Leach, Architectural Centre, Bank of England, Bank of New Zealand, Baronia Lounge, Barry Martin, Bell Laboratories, Benjamin Spock, Bikini Atoll, bikinis, Cedric Firth, Charles Fearnley, Cisitalia 202 GT, Daniel Libeskind, David Porter, Earl Flosdorf, ENIAC, Ernst Plischke, Farnsworth House, Fergus Shepherd, freeze-dried foods, Geoff Nees, Gordon Wilson, Graham Dawson, Graham Kofoed, Helmet Einhorn, Ian Calder, John Cox, John Gates, John Mauchly, Kaufmann Desert House, Le Corbusier, Mensa International, Mies van der Rohe, NZ National Orchestra, Resene, Richard Neutra, Rob Fantl, the Group, UN General Assembly, Unite d'Habitation, Wellington Film Society
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