Posts Tagged ‘Gordon Wilson Flats’
Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
On Saturday morning (10 September 2016) on The Nation, the Social Housing Minister, Paula Bennett, claimed that she was doing everything “humanly possible” (more…)
Tags:Alan Johnson, Canterbury earthquake, Crown limousines, Drug Foundation, earthquake prone, Environment Court, Golden Mile, Gordon Wilson Flats, Hamilton East Community Trust v Hamilton City Council, HNZC, homelessness, Hometown Boomtown, Housing New Zealand, Housing NZ, IEP, Initial Evaluation Procedure, methamphetamine, Michael Fowler, NBS, New Building Standard, New Zealand Society for Engineering, NZ Society for Engineering, NZSEE, Paula Bennett, road toll, Ross Bell, Salvation Army, Social Housing Minister, Terrace Flats, The Nation, Victoria University, VUW, WCC, Wellington, Wellington City Council, Wellington Urban Motorway
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
ARCHITECTURAL CENTRE: 2016 questions for Wellington mayoral candidates. (more…)
Tags:"Breaker Bay Beans", Adelaide, Adelaide Rd, Andy Foster, Antoni Gaudi, Aotea Centre, Auckland, Barcelona, Beehive, Berlin, BizDojo, Bob Fantl, Century City, Chinese Garden, Chris Kelly, City Gallery, City to Sea Bridge, Civic Square, Copenhagen, cuba street, Cycle Aware Wellington, Defence House, Dixon Street, Edwin Lutyens, Ernst Plischke, Erskine College, Festival Centre, Floriditas Cafe, Frank Kitts Park, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick De Jersey Clere, Freyberg, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Futuna Chapel, Glen Hooker, Gordon Moller, Gordon Wilson Flats, Helene Ritchie, Historic Places Wellington, Ian Athfield, Jan Rotman, Jason Smith, Jonathan Custance, Joshua Charlesworth, Justin Lester, Karaka, Karori, Keith Johnson, Kent Terrace, Liverpool, London, Lyall Bay, Majoribanks Street, Manchester, Manners Street, Maranui Cafe, massey House, Maurice Clark, Maurice Tebbs, mayoral candidates, Michael Fowler Centre, Midland Park, Nelson, Nicola Young, Nikau, Oriental Bay, Oscar Niemeyer, Patrick Street, Peter Ritchie, prefab, Ralph Roberts, Rata, Richard Meier, Roger Walker, Royal Festival Hall, Sanctum, St Johns, St Mary of the Angels, Steffanie McIntyre, Sushi al fresco, Sydney Opera House, Taranaki Street, Te Papa, Thomas Turnbull, Tory Street, Wagamama, Waitangi Park, Warren and Mahoney, WBC, Wellington Central Library, Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Wellington Civic Square, Wellington mayor, Wellington Town Hall, Wellington waterfront, William Turnbull, Wilton Road, Zaha Hadid
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
The state houses of the First Labour Government (1935-1949) are justly famous (more…)
Tags:Auckland, Bill McKay, Gordon Wilson Flats, Grey's Avenue Flats, kiwiana, My favourite modernist building, state house, state housing, Symonds St Flats, Victoria University, Wellington
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2016
This question responds to the idea that ugliness (more…)
Tags:Alana Schetzer, Architectural Centre, Art Now and Then, beton brut, Boston, Boston City Hall, Brutal and Beautiful, Brutalism, Bryan Jefferson, Carbuncle Cup, Central Institute of Technology, Chris Brooke White, CIT, Dominion Post, Donald Tellalian, Edwardian, English Heritage, Felicity Lewis, Gordon Wilson Flats, Heretaunga, Jefferson Sheard, John P. Robarts Research Library, Kallman, Leslie Horn, Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones, Marcel Breuer, Mathers & Haldenby Architects, McKinnall & Knowles, MEA House, Melbourne, Ministry of Works, Molesworth Street, Moore St, Moore Street electricity substation, MoW, National Library, Newcastle, Pirelli Building, Pirelli Tire Building, Robarts Library, Sheffield, Simon Thurley, Terrace Flats, The Telegraph, ugliness, University of Toronto, Victorian, Wellington
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Thursday, September 1st, 2016
Modern Memories by MM
My earliest memory of modern architecture was watching a reel-to-reel movie in an old pre-fab at intermediate. (more…)
Tags:Aldo Rossi, Futuna Chapel, Gordon Wilson Flats, Le Corbusier, Michael Melville, My favourite modernist building, Villa Savoye
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
I first discovered the elegant curve of the Symonds St Flats in the early 1980s (more…)
Tags:Architectural Centre, Auckland School of Architecture, Auckland University, Bates Smart McCutcheon, Berhampore Flats, Boyd, Cedric Firth, Centennial Flats, Department of Housing Construction, Dixon St Flats, Frederick Newman, Fredrich Neumann, Gordon Wilson, Gordon Wilson Flats, government architect, Grey's Avenue Flats, Greys Ave Flats, Grounds, Harry Seidler, Haywards Substation, Housing New Zealand, Housing NZ, Hutt Valley, Imi Porsolt, Ken Davis, Labour government, McIntyre, McLean Flats, Modernism, Mount Eden, My favourite modernist building, Otago University, Post-Modernism, Romberg, School of Dentistry, state housing, State Housing in New Zealand, Stephenson & Turner, Symonds Street Flats, Symons St Flats, the Group, University of Auckland, University of Otago, Upper Grays Avenue Flats, Victoria University
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Sunday, August 28th, 2016
The modernist building that stands out for me is the Ohakuri hydro power station (more…)
Tags:Allan Morse, Chris Valenduuk, Gordon Wilson Flats, Ministry of Works, MoW, My favourite modernist building, Ohakuri Hydro Power Station, Power Design, Shell House, Stephenson and Turner, Transpower House
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