Tag: Victoria University

Karori Teachers College: VUW public meeting

Mar 5, 2017

# AC History, Architectural History, Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HISTORY

Tomorrow night (Monday 6 March) is another public meeting about the fate of the VUW Karori Campus.
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”
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
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,
The End of an Era

Jul 27, 2009

# EVENTS OTHER

Last Thursday (23rd July 2009) saw the end of an era as Bill Alington had his official farewell from teaching at the School of Architecture at Victoria University …