Posts Tagged ‘Gordon Wilson’
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
I first discovered the elegant curve of the Symonds St Flats in the early 1980s (more…)
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
So why modernism is important? (more…)
Tags:A.R.D. Fairburn, Auckland, Bill Toomath, Bill Wilson, Gordon Wilson, Gordon Wilson Flats, Housing Division, John Scott, mass production, Miles Warren, Ministry of Works, open planning, standardisation, structural grid, Takapuna, the Group, The Terrace
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Monday, August 15th, 2016
For most Wellingtonians, the Modernist Bowen State building is perhaps best known for the Ministry of Food (more…)
Tags:Ben Schrader, Bowen State Building, Broadcasting House, glass curtain wall, Gordon Wilson, Ian Reynolds, Jock Beere, Ministry of Food, Modernism, My favourite modernist building, pilotis, Precinct Properties, Vogel Building
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Friday, December 18th, 2015
The Gordon Wilson Flats on The Terrace are under threat, (more…)
Tags:320 The Terrace, Alan Wild, Anthony Treadwell, Architectural Centre, Bill Alington, Dixon Street Flats, Ernst Plischke, Frederick Newman, Friedrich Neumann, Gordon Wilson, Gordon Wilson Flats, Gordon Wilson Memorial, Grey's Avenue Flats, Hazelcourt, Julia Gatley, London County Council, maisonette, Maraetai hydro-dam, Robert Matthew, Roxburgh hydro-dam, Tony Treadwell, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington City Council Flats
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
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. (more…)
Tags:Andrew Leach, Architectural Centre, Bank of England, Bank of New Zealand, Baronia Lounge, Barry Martin, Bell Laboratories, Benjamin Spock, Bikini Atoll, bikinis, Cedric Firth, Charles Fearnley, Cisitalia 202 GT, Daniel Libeskind, David Porter, Earl Flosdorf, ENIAC, Ernst Plischke, Farnsworth House, Fergus Shepherd, freeze-dried foods, Geoff Nees, Gordon Wilson, Graham Dawson, Graham Kofoed, Helmet Einhorn, Ian Calder, John Cox, John Gates, John Mauchly, Kaufmann Desert House, Le Corbusier, Mensa International, Mies van der Rohe, NZ National Orchestra, Resene, Richard Neutra, Rob Fantl, the Group, UN General Assembly, Unite d'Habitation, Wellington Film Society
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