Posts Tagged ‘Bill Alington’
Sunday, March 5th, 2017
Tomorrow night (Monday 6 March) is another public meeting about the fate of the VUW Karori Campus. (more…)
Tags:Bill Alington, Bill Toomath, Brutalism, brutalist architecture, Chris Brooke White, CIT Campus, Donald Street, Heritage New Zealand, Heritage NZ, Karori, Karori Teachers' College, Ministry of Education, NZHPT, NZIA, S. William Toomath, Victoria University, VUW, WCC, Wellington City Council, Wellington High School, Wellington Teachers College, William Toomath
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Thursday, September 29th, 2016
I last went to the Alington house (Karori, 1962) 20 years ago as part of the Architectural Centreās 50th Anniversary. (more…)
Tags:Alington House, Bill Alington, golden mean, Karori, Le Corbusier, Marguerite Beere, Mies van der Rohe, Ministry of Works, Parthenon, University of Illinois
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2016
The Farnsworth House in Southern Illinois by architect Ludwig Mies van derĀ Rohe is for me a clear, quiet statement of Modernist architecture. (more…)
Tags:Bill Alington, Edith Farnsworth, Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, My favourite modernist building, Palumbo, Southern Illinois
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Thursday, August 25th, 2016
Itās not my favourite structure, not by a long shot, but I have some affection for it as my first long-term encounter with modern architecture. (more…)
Tags:Andrew Leach, Bill Alington, Bulls Water Tower, Rangitikei River
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Thursday, August 11th, 2016
There are precious few examples of authentic modernist buildings in the Wellington region. (more…)
Tags:Berhampore Flats, Bill Alington, duplex, Gordon Wilson Flats, Hutt City Council Buildings, Julia Gatley, Le Corbusier, Ministry of Works, Modernism, My favourite modernist building, Roger Walker, Shell Gully
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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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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Last Thursday (23rd July 2009) saw the end of an era as Bill Alington had his official farewell from teaching at the School of Architecture at Victoria University …
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Tags:Beaux Arts Ball 1931, Bill Alington, Gerd Block, John Gray, Nigel Isaacs, Peter Wood, Russell Walden, School of Architecture, Victoria University, William Hildebrand Alington
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