Tag: Michael Fowler

Demolition by ignorance?

Sep 27, 2016

# HOUSING

On Saturday morning (10 September 2016) on The Nation, the Social Housing Minister, Paula Bennett, claimed that she was doing everything “humanly possible”
History Repeats: The Tale of the Hunter Building

Aug 27, 2016

# Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY

The current story of the Gordon Wilson Flats is perhaps not too different from that of the Hunter Building in the 1970s and 80s,
Is architecture at odds with politics?

Jun 10, 2009

# Comment

In a rare moment in April, I bought a copy of The Economist, but it was not the obvious architecturally related homeownership article which caught my eye – but rather it was pages 63 and 64, and an article titled: “There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician …”Well spotted – no architect in…