Tag: Gordon Wilson

RIP: Avis Higgs (1918-2016)

Oct 21, 2016

# AC History

One of our former members died last Friday just after her 98th birthday.
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
So why is modernism so important?

Aug 24, 2016

# Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY

So why modernism is important?
My favourite modernist building … Bowen State Building

Aug 15, 2016

# Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY

For most Wellingtonians, the Modernist Bowen State building is perhaps best known for the Ministry of Food
Gordon Wilson Memorial Flats | 320 The Terrace

Dec 18, 2015

# AC History, Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings

The Gordon Wilson Flats on The Terrace are under threat [again],
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.

promoting good design in the built environment since 1946