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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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My favourite modernist building … state houses
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- The state houses of the First Labour Government (1935-1949) are justly famous but have never been embraced by architects, and now increasingly the public take them for granted. Over 30,000 were built in the term of that government to address a housing shortage and there is a lot we can learn from the programme in […]
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My favourite modernist building … College House
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- A mature work by what was at the time a young practice. Architecture is foremost about creating space and College House, Christchurch (Warren and Mahoney, 1964-70) does this. Much better than most. The quad is the star. In the finest tradition it organises the site. It is well proportioned and is surrounded by the buildings. […]
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My favourite modernist building … Nordic Pavilion
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- Sverre Fehn’s 1962 Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is a building that transfers Nordic light to Venice. It is a “light device” to sharpen the famous Venetian haze and modify its humid temperature, dematerialising as the Venetian light filters through the impossibly thin structural blades forming the pavilion ceiling. There are no internal supports. […]
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Energy-Efficiency & Sustainable Architecture CPD seminars
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- We have organised two CPD seminars (40 CPD pts) on energy-efficiency and sustainable design. The seminars will both be held on Wednesday 12 November 8.30am-12.30pm in LT1/2 School of Architecture, VUW, 139 Vivian St. The cost for each seminar is $80, payable cash or cheque on the day, or via internet banking to the Architectural […]
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Architects Draw: Charity Auction
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- Architects are renowned for drawing, so the idea of a charity auction of architects’ drawings as a fundraiser for our participation in the High Court Appeal over the Basin Bridge Board of Inquiry Decision is a natural one. But we’re aiming for it to be a bit bigger than drawings and architects, with an auction […]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Architects Draw: history
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- 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 … … and given we are about to have another exhibition of architects’ (and others’) drawings with the upcoming Charity Auction to raise funds for our involvement in the Basin flyover High […]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Home Sweet Home
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- Mid September (18-22 September 2014 to be exact) saw four small gabled forms inhabiting the uncompromisingly urban space of Trafalgar Square in London. The concise timber structures were a London Design Festival installation: “A Place Called Home,” which reputedly aimed to address the question: “What makes the difference between a “house” and a “home”?” Artists […]
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Poor process or RMA problems?
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- Last Sunday (12th October) John Key announced that the Housing Accords legislation would be incorporated into the Resource Management Act (RMA), and that the Basin Board of Inquiry was evidence of a need to combine sections 6 and 7, and include a reference to “infrastructure” in this new section in an amended RMA. A […]
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Stirling effort
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- Moving on – and returning to the eternal debate about: What makes a Good Building? In the UK, every year for the last decade or two they have a prize for the best building completed by a British Architect. It is hosted by the RIBA – and while in the past it has been accompanied [...]
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