Posts Tagged ‘the Group’

My favourite modernist building … the Rotherham House

Sunday, September 18th, 2016

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My favourite modernist building (albeit one I haven’t visited) is the Rotherham House (more…)

My favourite modernist building … Symonds St Flats, Auckland

Tuesday, August 30th, 2016

I first discovered the elegant curve of the Symonds St Flats in the early 1980s (more…)

So why is modernism so important?

Wednesday, August 24th, 2016

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So why modernism is important? (more…)

70 next year | how do we compare?

Thursday, November 5th, 2015

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Yes, so we’re 70 next year, and the committee is working away at thinking about what this means and how we should celebrate. (more…)

Marilyn Reynolds RIP

Monday, September 7th, 2015

post by Gill Matthewson

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Marilyn Reynolds née Hart passed away on the 31st of August, an event that cannot go unremarked in architectural circles because she was one of the six signatories to the famed Group constitution in 1946. (more…)

1946 was an eventful year

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…)