Architecture and Victoria University
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A graceful gazebo: Futuna Chapel, Friend Street, Karori
- 2 May 2010
- Salient
- On 11 April the Society of the Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust opened the doors to what is considered the most significant New Zealand building of the twentieth century.
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The End of an Era
- 27 Jul 2009
- Architectural Centre Inc
- 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 … … Bill has been at the VUW school since before it began in 1975.
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Puni accomodation
- 25 Feb 2009
- Eye of the Fish
- Looking up Vivian St, past the closed down peepshows and the sadly tacky brothels, a new building can be spied on the hill. It’s the new student accommodation block called Te Puni, and the neighbours on the hill are in trepidation.
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This Eye of the Fish newsitem has 10 comments.
- ‘Agreed, flatness is not evil. I quite like the play of patterns, and the sort-of tartan grid / hole punch effect, and the “notched” corner effect that Flattie identifies, although I’m not sure that i would want to live in there. And you’re certainly rig’
- ‘I’m a bit ambivalent about the building. Thinking about it positively – as clearly several people want to – does its intense flatness redefine ideas of landmark, which traditionally have been about visual climax and axiality? I also wonder if the difficu’
- ‘You mean this one? http://eyeofthefish.org/wellington-goes-high-tech/ Yes, the plumbing has been all straightened up and made normal, the missing bits of Kingspan have been replaced, the scaffold is down and the verandah is on. It’s all complete – and ’
You can view the remaining comments and submit your own here.
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Pedestrian City: The Future of Wellington
- 28 Jul 2008
- Salient
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World's first carbon neutral Faculty of Architecture and Design
- 5 Jun 2008
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Did you know that the construction, demolition, operation and maintenance of buildings is responsible for approximately 30 percent of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions?
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- conservation
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Architecture student to attend design workshop in Edinburgh
- 18 Mar 2008
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Fourth-year architecture student Daniel Davis has won a British Council 'Cityscapers: By the Throat' scholarship to attend a two-week studio at the University of Edinburgh.
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Architects of the future display their work
- 8 Nov 2007
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Innovative works from New Zealand’s future building industry professionals will be on display at Victoria University's Te Aro campus from 8 to 17 November 2007.
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ARCH students showcase sustainable works
- 9 Sep 2007
- Salient
- Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos opened Closing the Loops a showcase of the year’s work by Sustainable Architecture students at Vic’s Architecture and Design campus last Wednesday.
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Waste not, want not - making materials from waste
- 4 Sep 2007
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The environmental issues of waste-reduction and sustainability in the building industry have been given a twist in an exhibition by students of the University's School of Architecture.
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Living Machines
- 2 Sep 2007
- Salient
- A product of the modernism of the sixties, the social housing apartments of Wellington have recently come under the spotlight as breeding grounds for antisocial behavior, including gang violence. The idea that apartments, or “living machines” as their inventor called them, can psychologically influence behavior is not without international examples. Salient volunteer writer Duncan McKinlay investigates the relationship between architecture and behavior and finds some tenuous links.
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Architecture competition a winner
- 29 Jun 2007
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A competition run by the Department of Conservation (DoC) in association with Victoria University's School of Design has proved to be a winner for all involved.
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Second Life
- 9 May 2007
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Not content with inhabiting just one world, a group of Victoria University architecture students and recent graduates are taking on the biggest-ever virtual land grab.
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