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The Architectural Centre Inc is a multi-disciplinary, independent, voluntary organisation of architects, artists, designers and others with an active interest in architecture, the arts, the built environment and Wellington City.

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- Submission : City to Sea Bridge
  - 14 Dec 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - 13th November 2024 ~ Submission to the Te Ngākau Precinct Public Consultation The following is extracted from the Centre’s submission on this consultation. We requested to present to the Council. The full submission is available here. Transcript of the oral presentation is here (Nov 25th). The Centre strongly opposes what appears to be the driving premiss […]
  - Accepted from The Architectural Centre Inc 2024 6 days ago by feedreader
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- WCC voted on Dec 5 to demolish the City to Sea Bridge
  - 9 Dec 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - Supporting the Wellington Civic Trust, the Architectural Centre will be opposing this decision through whatever means we can. We believe the Council’s advice to Councillors was not provided with reasonable consideration of the range of development options, particularly considering physical and cultural amenity value of the bridge. The demolition of the Bridge will return the […]
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- Open Whanganui
  - 13 Sep 2024
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  - In (unofficial) conjunction with Here’s Open Home Whanganui event – September 28 – the Center will be opening a few more doors for Centre members. The Here programme will visit the Dog Box (2013 – Ben Mitchell-Anyon, Sally Ogle, Caro Robertson and Tim Gittos)… … and the Payne House (1960s, Michael Payne). The Here event […]
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- Pūheke : City to Sea
  - 5 Sep 2024
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  - As you may be aware Council members were briefed on Te Ngākau Civic Square Precinct Development Plan, created by Pōneke Collective with Council officers, on September 4. The council will receive further briefings on per-site proposals in July next year. The Town Hall, Te Matapihi Central Library, and the Civic Administration Building (CAB) and Municipal […]
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- ‘overlooking social content in architectural design: in whose interest?’
  - 1 Sep 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - Dr Peter ParkesDesign Architect and Cultural Theorist/Critic Coloqium 25 November 1992 School of Architecture Victoria University of Welington Link to the full paper here. There are many signs in contemporary architectural thinking to suggest that social commitment in design is on the way out. Many architects, commentators and teachers in mainstream architecture seem to be […]
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- Public talk : Patrick Reynolds
  - 9 Jun 2024
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  - The Centre is very pleased to bring Patrick Reynolds to Te Whanganui-a-Tara to talk about his work as an urbanist in Tāmaki Makaurau. Wednesday June 12, 6pm @ the School of Architecture.
  - Accepted from The Architectural Centre Inc 2024 3 months ago by tonytw1
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- Position Statement: The Architectural Centre
  - 10 May 2024
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  - Photo above: Mr and Mrs W.
  - Accepted from The Architectural Centre Inc 2024 3 months ago by tonytw1
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- Recent Media Attention
  - 21 Apr 2024
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  - The open letter to Hon Chris Bishop has stimulated a bit of a response from the media.
  - Accepted from The Architectural Centre Inc 2024 3 months ago by tonytw1
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- “Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments”
  - 21 Apr 2024
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  - What is in a name? You may be wondering why we are calling are calling them this – rather than the Gordon Wilson Flats. Well, here you can see Minister of Housing Mr Fox (on the right looking at the camera), standing in front of the still incomplete building in 1959. This small article, published […]
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- Adapted reuse scheme for Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments
  - 17 Apr 2024
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  - Refer below to open letter authored by The Architectural Centre addressed to Minister for Housing. We provide a robust, contemporary rationale for the retention and refurbishment of 320 The Terrace, also known as the Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments (GWMA): Tēnā koe Hon. Chris Bishop, An open letter – 320 The Terrace (Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments) […]
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- Adapted reuse scheme for Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments
  - 17 Apr 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - Refer below to open letter authored by The Architectural Centre addressed to Minister for Housing. We provide a robust, contemporary rationale for the retention and refurbishment of 320 The Terrace, also known as the Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments (GWMA): Tēnā koe Hon. Chris Bishop, An open letter – 320 The Terrace (Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments) […]
  - Accepted from Architectural Centre Wordpress 2024 8 months ago by tonytw1
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- Adapted reuse scheme for Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments
  - 17 Apr 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - Refer below to open letter authored by The Architectural Centre addressed to Minister for Housing. We provide a robust, contemporary rationale for the retention and refurbishment of 320 The Terrace, also known as the Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments (GWMA): Tēnā koe Hon. Chris Bishop, An open letter – 320 The Terrace (Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments) […]
  - Accepted from Architectural Centre Wordpress 2024 8 months ago by tonytw1
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- Returning to housing
  - 4 Apr 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - The Architectural Centre began with the problem of housing, and the questions of how best to build, who and how it should be made and where, have not gone away. The current Centre wants to drive the debate and demonstrate what is possible.
  - Accepted from The Architectural Centre Inc 2024 3 months ago by tonytw1
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- Age diversity
  - 11 Mar 2024
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  - However attractive green field and scorched earth planning is, that kind of utopia isn’t coming anytime soon. What is coming is managed retreat from flood and liquefaction areas, some population growth (though this might not be as significant as the former) and an aging population. The ‘aging’ I talking about isn’t just to do with […]
  - Accepted from The Architectural Centre Inc 2024 3 months ago by tonytw1
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- Age diversity
  - 11 Mar 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - However attractive green field and scorched earth planning is, that kind of utopia isn’t coming anytime soon. What is coming is managed retreat from flood and liquefaction areas, some population growth (though this might not be as significant as the former) and an aging population. The ‘aging’ I talking about isn’t just to do with […]
  - Accepted from Architectural Centre Wordpress 2024 8 months ago by tonytw1
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- Review: Ultrawild
  - 6 Mar 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - What: Ultrawild – An audacious plan to rewild every city on Earth. Who: Stephen Mushin Industrial Designer (graduated from RMIT c. 2002) Lives between Wellington and Australia and the rest of the world. (Is it a co-incidence that in Japanese “Mushin” means “when a person’s mind is free from thoughts of anger, fear, or ego […]
  - Accepted from The Architectural Centre Inc 2024 3 months ago by tonytw1
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- Review: Ultrawild
  - 6 Mar 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - What: Ultrawild – An audacious plan to rewild every city on Earth. Who: Stephen Mushin Industrial Designer (graduated from RMIT c. 2002) Lives between Wellington and Australia and the rest of the world. (Is it a co-incidence that in Japanese “Mushin” means “when a person’s mind is free from thoughts of anger, fear, or ego […]
  - Accepted from Architectural Centre Wordpress 2024 8 months ago by tonytw1
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- Review: The Drifting Room
  - 1 Mar 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - By Paul Harvey What: ‘The Drifting Room’ by Stephen Bain, an event part of The Performance Arcade – Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts Where: Waterfront, East side of Te Papa When: Thursday 22nd February (2pm) How: 8 people enter a tent-like, lightweight structure with the intention to move around, sense and observe the world beyond its […]
  - Accepted from The Architectural Centre Inc 2024 3 months ago by tonytw1
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  - te-papa
- Review: The Drifting Room
  - 1 Mar 2024
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - By Paul Harvey What: ‘The Drifting Room’ by Stephen Bain, an event part of The Performance Arcade – Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts Where: Waterfront, East side of Te Papa When: Thursday 22nd February (2pm) How: 8 people enter a tent-like, lightweight structure with the intention to move around, sense and observe the world beyond its […]
  - Accepted from Architectural Centre Wordpress 2024 8 months ago by tonytw1
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  - te-papa
- Advocacy
  - 23 Aug 2023
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - Part of what the Architectural Centre does is represent the value of good design in the built environment to local and central government, to developers and property owners. Whenever issues arise the Centre is ready to submit on public consultations, engage in lobbying and raising awareness with the wider community. Members believe that new developments […]
  - Accepted from Architectural Centre Wordpress 2024 8 months ago by tonytw1
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- Events
  - 23 Aug 2023
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - One of the best aspect of the Architectural Centre is the events we have held. Site visits to buildings under construction and to finished developments, public talks and even design competitions! With the aim of raising awareness and discussion about good design in the built environment, the Centre seeks to arrange events that highlight important issues […]
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- The Collection
  - 23 Aug 2023
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - The Architectural Centre has an archival collection, held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, and the Centre’s Design Review magazine is also available to view online. The Design Review was a regular publication made by the Centre from 1948 to 1954. Editions have been digitised by the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection ~ Te Pūkikotuhi o […]
  - Accepted from Architectural Centre Wordpress 2024 8 months ago by tonytw1
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- Architectural Centre archive project
  - 23 Aug 2023
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  - The Committee is looking to 2046 when the Centre will turn 100. What could it be then and what activities could it support? In the early days the Centre ran a gallery and published a magazine. It has regularly hosted competitions, exhibitions and public talks. Could becoming a collecting body be the next step in […]
  - Accepted from Architectural Centre Wordpress 2024 8 months ago by tonytw1
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- Housing Manifesto
  - 21 Aug 2017
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - After the success of our 2006 Manifesto for Architecture, written to mark our 60th anniversary, we have this year, in the spirit of an election year with a strong focus on housing needs, launched the Architectural Centre’s Manifesto for Housing. In addition to our tradition postcard medium, the manifesto will also be emblazoned on an […]
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- Housing Manifesto
  - 21 Aug 2017
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - After the success of our 2006 Manifesto for Architecture, written to mark our 60th anniversary, we have this year, in the spirit of an election year with a strong focus...
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- My favourite modernist building … Wanganui War Memorial Hall
  - 2 Apr 2017
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  - It seems very restrictive to be limited to one favourite modernist building, but if forced to choose I nominate the Wanganui War Memorial Hall, designed by Gordon Smith in the firm of Newman, Smith & Greenough, and completed in 1960. This is a sophisticated and polished public building, designed and built at a time when […]
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- My favourite modernist building … Wanganui War Memorial Hall
  - 2 Apr 2017
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - It seems very restrictive to be limited to one favourite modernist building, but if forced to choose I nominate the Wanganui War Memorial Hall, designed by Gordon Smith in the...
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- Karori Teachers College: VUW public meeting
  - 5 Mar 2017
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - Tomorrow night (Monday 6 March) is another public meeting about the fate of the VUW Karori Campus. The university decided last year to sell the campus amid community uproar that it would lost vital facilities. The news that VUW had paid only $10 when the site was transferred to it from the Ministry of Education […]
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- Karori Teachers College: VUW public meeting
  - 5 Mar 2017
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - Tomorrow night (Monday 6 March) is another public meeting about the fate of the VUW Karori Campus. The university decided last year to sell the campus amid community uproar that...
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- My favourite modernist building … Rees Townhouses
  - 5 Mar 2017
  - Architectural Centre Inc
  - In New Zealand, there is a tradition of conserving ‘old’ buildings made of timber and stone. There is also a more recent ‘tradition,’ of owners and their architects who...
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