Tag: Ian Athfield
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Planners’ Screw-ups
Ever wondered why the terminal is on the wrong side of the runway?
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My favourite modernist building … Puaka-James Hight and Matariki
In a culture that favours surface over substance, and visual sensation over bodily sensation,
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My favourite modernist building … State Insurance Building (former)
William Gummer (1884-1966) was one of New Zealand’s greatest architects
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RIP Ath’
It’s been a tough couple of years for Wellington architecture with the significant losses of architectural giants such as Gerald Melling and Bill Toomath, and now today Ian Athfield.
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For Sale by tender: CLASSIC MEDITERRANEAN HILLSIDE HOME
Actually, neither a classic, nor Mediterranean, but I guess Real Estate Agents run out of descriptors fairly quickly when a house doesn’t have conventional character appeal, nor potential to stamp your own personality on it (via the insatiable kiwi attitude for DIY of course). “Outstanding views” (back across the harbour to Wellington City) are of course the opening…
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Every Recession needs its Architectural Show Ponies
# RANTINGIt’s a big scarey world at the moment: Side-lining RMA trauma, capitalism getting egg on its face, the planet going down the climatic toilet, and Memorial Park on hold. Let’s not even mention the National Library. It’s in times like these that irresponsible flippancy becomes one of the few critical tools left unshakable.
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Documentary Film Festival (Wellington)
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.
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Ian Athfield on National Radio
On Sunday 1st of March, Chris Laidlaw interviewed Athfield about ‘the role of architecture in our society and on our environment.’ The Podcast can be accessed from here.