Tag: Brutalism
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Karori Teachers College: VUW public meeting
Tomorrow night (Monday 6 March) is another public meeting about the fate of the VUW Karori Campus.
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My favourite modernist building … Computer Centre (Stage One), University of Canterbury
Stage One of the University’s Computer Centre (now known as Angus Tait, Hall & McKenzie, 1965-66) is a building that I have long enjoyed
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My favourite modernist building … Puaka-James Hight and Matariki
In a culture that favours surface over substance, and visual sensation over bodily sensation,
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My favourite modernist building … Centre Point
Most visitors to London will have come across Centre Point in their travels
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My favourite modernist building … the Cricketers’ Arms Tavern
Cricketer’s Arms Tavern, cnr Tory & Vivian Streets (1962-68/1968-70)
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That other New Zealand city of some little significance…
Just to show that we are not completely parochial here at the Arch Centre, from time to time it is necessary to cast our eyes south of the Strait and north of the Tararua Ranges and acknolwedge that building activity does take place in various regional centres… such as, say, Auckland – the City of…
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from the Similarity Files – Boston City Hall
The connection here is more than obvious, and not exactly news either, but it is extra-topical in some ways. Just as our very very poor imitation of this building is slated for demolition (it might as well be), so too is the Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, proposing the abandonment of the Boston City Plaza,…