Posts Tagged ‘Zaha Hadid’
Tuesday, September 13th, 2016

ARCHITECTURAL CENTRE: 2016 questions for Wellington mayoral candidates. (more…)
Tags:"Breaker Bay Beans", Adelaide, Adelaide Rd, Andy Foster, Antoni Gaudi, Aotea Centre, Auckland, Barcelona, Beehive, Berlin, BizDojo, Bob Fantl, Century City, Chinese Garden, Chris Kelly, City Gallery, City to Sea Bridge, Civic Square, Copenhagen, cuba street, Cycle Aware Wellington, Defence House, Dixon Street, Edwin Lutyens, Ernst Plischke, Erskine College, Festival Centre, Floriditas Cafe, Frank Kitts Park, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick De Jersey Clere, Freyberg, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Futuna Chapel, Glen Hooker, Gordon Moller, Gordon Wilson Flats, Helene Ritchie, Historic Places Wellington, Ian Athfield, Jan Rotman, Jason Smith, Jonathan Custance, Joshua Charlesworth, Justin Lester, Karaka, Karori, Keith Johnson, Kent Terrace, Liverpool, London, Lyall Bay, Majoribanks Street, Manchester, Manners Street, Maranui Cafe, massey House, Maurice Clark, Maurice Tebbs, mayoral candidates, Michael Fowler Centre, Midland Park, Nelson, Nicola Young, Nikau, Oriental Bay, Oscar Niemeyer, Patrick Street, Peter Ritchie, prefab, Ralph Roberts, Rata, Richard Meier, Roger Walker, Royal Festival Hall, Sanctum, St Johns, St Mary of the Angels, Steffanie McIntyre, Sushi al fresco, Sydney Opera House, Taranaki Street, Te Papa, Thomas Turnbull, Tory Street, Wagamama, Waitangi Park, Warren and Mahoney, WBC, Wellington Central Library, Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Wellington Civic Square, Wellington mayor, Wellington Town Hall, Wellington waterfront, William Turnbull, Wilton Road, Zaha Hadid
Posted in Heritage, Heritage Buildings, HOUSING, Transport, urban design | 3 Comments »
Saturday, November 1st, 2014

Hugh Ferriss “Metropolis of Tomorrow” (c.1929)
Drawing has been a staple of an architect’s profession for longer than architecture has been a profession … (more…)
Tags:Acqua Felice, Andrea Palladio, Antonine column, architectural drawing, Carceri, Cenotaphe a Newton, centrally-planned church, charity auction, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Daniel Libeskind, Deuxieme projet pour la Bibliotheque du Roi, Domenico Francia, Edgar Allen Poe, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Giovanni Guerra, Greek cross plan, Hugh Ferriss, Lateran, Le Delizia della Villa di Castellazzo, Lebbeus Woods, Marc'antonio dal Re, Mauro Oddi, Metropolis of Tomorrow, Natalie de Girolamo Bonifazio, Nero, obelisk, Parma, piazza, Pope Sixtus V, quadratura, Rome, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Santa Maria della Steccata, Santa Maria Maggiore, Santa Marie del Popolo, St Peter's basilica, Teatro Olimpico, Trajan column, trompe-l'oeil, urban design, Vatican, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Zaha Hadid
Posted in Architectural History, Basin Reserve issues, EVENTS OTHER, Exhibition, HISTORY | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 18th, 2009

A casual comment about architect costumes at the last Arch Centre committee meeting made me wonder what the most fashionable fashion victim of all time: Barbie – might be able to offer to the subject of architects and architecture. (more…)
Tags:Alfred Hitchcock, Apostolos Mitsio, Architect Barbie, Argentina, avant garde, Barbie, Barbie A-Frame Dreamhouse, Barbie Cardboard Dreamhouse, Barbie Dream Cottage, Barbie pink, Barbie Shelter, Barbie Store, Barbie Victorian Dream House, Buenos Aires, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Charles Eames, Folding Pretty House, Hitchcock, Jonathan Adler, Kermit green, Librarians, London, Malibu Dreamhouse, Mattel, Nico Saieh, Olivia Lee, Police, Ray Eames, Shanghai, Slade Architecture, The Birds, thermal comfort, Zaha, Zaha Hadid, Zaha: Empress of Architecture Doll
Posted in Comment | 9 Comments »
Sunday, May 17th, 2009


Urban legend perpetrates the idea of an uncontrollable relationship between women and shoes. (more…)
Tags:Carrie Bradshaw, fetish, Lacoste, Melissa, Omelle Architect Pump, Rem D Koolhaas, Rem Koolhaas, shoes, Zaha Hadid
Posted in Comment | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
…or has Prince Charles (also, see our other story here), finally developed psychokinetic powers of destruction for contemporary architecture…?

Mwahahaha…
Click here for the ‘real’ story…
Tags:deconstructivism, evil laugh, Fire, Guangzhaou Opera House, News, Prince Charles, psychokinesis, Zaha Hadid
Posted in News, Uncategorized | Comments Closed
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Unfortunately the Guardian article that brings this rather strange contemporary building to our attention is dated 31st of March – so I have to assume that it isn’t some April Fool’s Day prank. This is, according to the article, the Prince of Wales’ first attempt at architectural design – a fire station in that weird little phenomenon: Poundbury.
Now, there has been some discussion over at the Fish, relating to the employment of Classical architectural language by various regimes throughout history, but HRH’s uptake of the style is much more bizarre than a simple architecture-as-propaganda motive. Here the Prince seems to be waxing nostalgic for a bygone era of – not royal power – but strictly mannered gentility: a romantic yearning for a bygone era that only ever existed for the few who had the good fortune to be born into nobility…
It’s kind of sweet really (the yearning, not the building) – but what are we to make of this out here in the Dominion of New Zealand, whose Head of State may well end up being Prince Charles? Yes, the role is largely symbolic, but does his utopian conservatism symbolically align with our own self-styled egalitarianism? And what of architectural taste? Perhaps we should have invited the Prince to design our Supreme Court (now there would be a symbolic gesture!) – I am sure he would show us colonials a thing or two about domes… (more…)
Tags:Classical archtitecture, Fire Station, HRH, Poundbury, Poundbury Fire Station, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Vitra Fire Station, Zaha Hadid
Posted in RANTING | 9 Comments »
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
OK, so we have already discussed cars on this site, but that was regarding the ever-expanding girth of both us, and the automotive metal which we wrap around ourselves before hurtling through the landscape at great speed (OK, much less speed through the cityscape…). But what about the relationship between architecture, and the car itself…?
Those of us who are ‘up’ on our history should no about Modernist predilections for machine-inspired goodness, and will probably even recall Le Corbusier’s reverence for Citroën, naming his Maison Citrohan after that company. Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse is one of the most famous urban schemes that was predicated on the speed and efficiency of the automobile, and he certainly wasn’t alone in the conflation of Modern urbanity with automotive dominance – even FLW’s arcadian paradise, Broadacre City is reliant upon this.

Corbusier’s dalliance with automotive design for… (more…)
Tags:Adler Standard 8, automobiles, BMW, Buckminster Fuller, cars, Citroen, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Dymaxion, Foster, Karl Schwanzer, Le Corbusier, Lincoln Contintal, Plan Voison, Renault, Voison Autospeed, Walter Gropius, Zaha Hadid
Posted in RANTING | 5 Comments »
Barbie Architecture: yep it’s pink
Thursday, June 18th, 2009A casual comment about architect costumes at the last Arch Centre committee meeting made me wonder what the most fashionable fashion victim of all time: Barbie – might be able to offer to the subject of architects and architecture. (more…)
Tags:Alfred Hitchcock, Apostolos Mitsio, Architect Barbie, Argentina, avant garde, Barbie, Barbie A-Frame Dreamhouse, Barbie Cardboard Dreamhouse, Barbie Dream Cottage, Barbie pink, Barbie Shelter, Barbie Store, Barbie Victorian Dream House, Buenos Aires, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Charles Eames, Folding Pretty House, Hitchcock, Jonathan Adler, Kermit green, Librarians, London, Malibu Dreamhouse, Mattel, Nico Saieh, Olivia Lee, Police, Ray Eames, Shanghai, Slade Architecture, The Birds, thermal comfort, Zaha, Zaha Hadid, Zaha: Empress of Architecture Doll
Posted in Comment | 9 Comments »