Tag: Cedric Firth

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
My favourite modernist building … Massey House

Aug 18, 2016

# Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY

If you look up as you march down the west side of Lambton Quay,
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.