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Adapted reuse scheme for Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments
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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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Gordon Wilson Flats, Maurice Terrace, Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Adapted reuse scheme for Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments
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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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Gordon Wilson Flats, Maurice Terrace, Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Age diversity
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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 […]
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Review: Ultrawild
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- 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 […]
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Review: The Drifting Room
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- 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 […]
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Events
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- 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
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- 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 […]
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Architectural Centre archive project
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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 […]
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Advocacy
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- 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 […]
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Housing Manifesto
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- 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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Karori Teachers College: VUW public meeting
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- 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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Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Chris Laidlaw response to our letter re: the trolley buses
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- On 13 February we wrote to the Sustainable Transport Committee restating our concern regarding the GWRC decision to replace trolley buses with diesel-hybrid buses. Our letter can be found here....
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ICI House: 61 Molesworth Street
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- Stephenson and Turner‘s elegant Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) House now stands in doubt, following Monday’s earthquake, with reports that a beam inside the building “looks somewhat like a broken bone...
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Planners’ Screw-ups
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- Ever wondered why the terminal is on the wrong side of the runway? Don’t be afraid of planners. It’s safe to assume they’re wrong. They usually are. Attack their plans...
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ICI House
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- Stephenson and Turner‘s elegant Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) House now stands in doubt, following Monday’s earthquake, with reports that a beam inside the building “looks somewhat like a broken bone in the leg …” and assertions that it is “earmarked for “likely deconstruction”” – “it’s going to be pulled down.” Its modernist podium-tower was […]
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Planners’ Screw-ups
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- Ever wondered why the terminal is on the wrong side of the runway? Don’t be afraid of planners. It’s safe to assume they’re wrong. They usually are. Attack their plans and rules, and for spending your money, at every chance you get. Looking back over the 60 years since Gray Young’s office accepted me as […]
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RIP: Avis Higgs (1918-2016)
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- One of our former members died last Friday just after her 98th birthday. Her funeral will be at Old St Pauls on Tuesday 1st November at 2pm. Avis Higgs was...
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RIP: Avis Higgs (1918-2016)
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- One of our former members died last Friday just after her 98th birthday. Her funeral will be at Old St Pauls on Tuesday 1st November at 2pm. Avis Higgs was a renowned textile designer, and an active member of the Centre with her husband Jock Beere, and, of course, many of you will know her […]
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My favourite modernist building … INDEX
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- Here’s an index to the various entries of “My favourite modernist building …” and related posts So why is modernism so important? Gordon Wilson Memorial Flats My favourite modernist building … 20 October: Reitveld-Schroder House (Gerrit Reitveld & Truss Schroder-Schrader, Utrecht, 1923) – Peter Parkes 16 October: Old Wool House (Bill Toomath, Wellington, 1955) – […]
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My favourite modernist building … Rietveld-Schroder House
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- This small 190m2 two level house (Utercht, 1924) located at the end of a row housing scheme in Utrecht is widely regarded as a masterpiece of early modernist architecture. As an exemplar of poineering modernism, it attained recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by the Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld for Truus […]
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My favourite modernist building … Old Wool House
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- In the late 1950s I had cause to visit Bernard Johns & Whitwell’s office one night, maybe to see his son Chris Johns who was a year ahead of me at Polytech. Perched on a stool was the famous Bernard, and on another Bill Toomath. Memorable for the intense discussion that was going on over […]
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My favourite modernist building … Alington House
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- I last went to the Alington house (Karori, 1962) 20 years ago as part of the Architectural Centre’s 50th Anniversary. I had been a couple of times before, and again I felt a feeling of calmness sweep over me – a sense of everything in its place. Perhaps this was due to the Golden Mean […]
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Demolition by ignorance?
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- On Saturday morning (10 September 2016) on The Nation, the Social Housing Minister, Paula Bennett, claimed that she was doing everything “humanly possible” to address the homelessness situation. It is undisputed that there is insufficient social housing, and not enough is being done fast enough. In early September, the media stated that there were “hundreds […]
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My favourite modernist building … Gordon Drake’s houses
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- When did “modernist” work start and finish? What were its beginnings? Did it end upon the inception of the International Style? Is “modernist” work framed in the works of Gropius, Mies, Corbusier, Behrens, Wright, and so on? Did not the modern movement stir in c.1830 C.E. and end in c.1933 C.E.? Do the works of […]
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My favourite modernist building … the Rotherham House
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- My favourite modernist building (albeit one I haven’t visited) is the Rotherham House – one of the Group’s houses. The Group was formed primarily of Auckland architecture students in the late 1940s, who stated their intentions in their manifesto: We know there is another way of living in which a house is logically contrived for […]
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Architecture Week Event: Thursday 22 September
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- NEW DREAMLAND: A panel discussion Mark Southcombe (VUW) and James Wallace (Studio Pacific Architecture), chaired by Christine McCarthy (President, Architectural Centre) The dream of a pavlova paradise – owning your own home on a quarter-acre section – no longer exists. The size of the section has halved, the size of the house has doubled, the price has increased exponentially […]
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Cars have never made good houses
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- Ten years ago there were no beggars on the streets of Wellington. Today almost every walk through the CBD reveals the increase in poverty in New Zealand. The needs for begging obviously vary. One woman I spoke to had $80 of her benefit left after paying rent (and deductions from WINZ and the Department of […]
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Rapid light Rail in Wellington
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- Britomart in Auckland changed everything, and Len Brown was able to persuade John Key that rail was the urban transport future for main routes. Chris Laidlaw should do the same for Wellington to get NZTA funding for RLR to Kilbirnie and the airport. Classy Rapid Light Rail appeals to everyone including business. In 1993 we […]
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington Mayoral Candidates Respond
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- ARCHITECTURAL CENTRE: 2016 questions for Wellington mayoral candidates. (n.b. We emailed candidates twice and asked for replies by Monday 12 September. We were unable to find contact details for Johnny Overton; we did not get replies from Jo Coughlan or Nick Leggett). We asked the candidates the following questions: 1. What is your favourite place […]
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Affordable (cost-effective sustainable) housing
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- Unaffordable dwellings do not have the following characteristics: a) Urban & suburban dwellings located on public transport. b) Attached, either simple (plain) terraces or cubes (as close as possible to cubes), with hip or gable trussed roofs. The next priority is semi-detached houses in cubes, and the last is detached houses each within a cube […]
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