Tag: state housing

Architecture Week Event: Thursday 22 September

Sep 18, 2016

# HOUSING

NEW DREAMLAND: A panel discussion Mark Southcombe (VUW) and Ian Shearer, chaired by Christine McCarthy (President, Architectural Centre)
My favourite modernist building … state houses

Sep 7, 2016

# Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY

The state houses of the First Labour Government (1935-1949) are justly famous
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

promoting good design in the built environment since 1946