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  • The City and the City

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    So, I’ve just finished reading China Miéville’s novel The city and the city – the first novel I’ve actually made it through in quite some time. Courtesy of Wikipedia, here is the low-down on the dual cities that are the main character/s of the book: The City & The City takes place in the cities of Besźel and…

  • Video of the Week XII: Poundbury: Building Communities

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    Here is a companion piece to the Prince Charles post of a couple of weeks ago (I hope it is clear by now that my Zaha comments were made with tongue embedded firmly in cheek…). Here, for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure perhaps?), is a very short clip propounding the virtues of Poundbury: What do…

  • Video of the Week XI: Libidinal Gehry confronts asexual Eisner

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    I’d like to say the title says it all, but the mental image is just too disturbing – and there isn’t really a whole lot of confronting going on. What we are exposed to here (if I can use that expression to open a discussion of sexuality), is an excellent piece of post-design rationalization from…

  • Video of the Week XI: Architecture & energy 1

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    Amid all of the hooha surrounding our Supreme Court – symbols of power, propaganda, and hair loss – we should take time out to step back and really consider the dome issue in a more holistic way. You see, as this remarkable little film sets out, there really are supernatural consequences of building domes, which have no doubt been…

  • Video of the Week VII: The Architects Sketch

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    The Architect Sketch (by John Cleese and Graham Chapman) If some of you found that last week’s video resonated all to familiarly, then try this one on for size. It is a pretty famous Monty Python sketch, so there is a good chance that you’ll have seen it before, but it is definitely worth another…

  • Documentary Film Festival (Wellington)

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    The Wellington season of the DOCNZ 2009 Documentary Film Festival is on sooon! This year the films are screening at Hoyts Regent on Manners. Festival includes world premiere of ‘Architect of Dreams‘ about Ian Athfield. New Zealand 2008 / 52min, Director Geoffrey Cawthorn. Producer Richard Riddiford.

  • Video of the Week VI: smack the pony – architects

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    Smack the Pony, according to Wikipedia, was a British sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003 on Channel 4 (some of you out there might have seen them?). Weirdly, its title was intended to sound like a euphemism for female masturbation – something I won’t tag this post with in case it gets too popular amongst a demographic that we are…

  • Video of the Week IV: Studio Slasher – Death by Architecture

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    More student studio madness – this time created by  5th year honours students in Architecture (WITS University) as a response to last week’s video… I hope this doesn’t bring back too many memories… m-d

  • Video of the Week III: Pimp My Model

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    For those of us that remember our student days, or who still require the services of ‘X-Acto’ today, here’s a idea to help give that extra ‘bling’ to your design… Here’s the link to the youtube page if the above video misbehaves… It’s easy to see how the Harvard University Graduate School of Design gets such a prestigious reputation.…

  • Video of the Week II: Sony building melody step (some secret commands)

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    Who’d a thought getting from one level of a building top the next could be so much fun: these are the melody stairs from the Sony Building in Tokyo. Here’s a way to encourage more physical activity and less lift usage – just don’t put my office anywhere near the staircase. And apparently, you get…