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    • Submission : City to Sea Bridge
      • 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 […]

    • WCC voted on Dec 5 to demolish the City to Sea Bridge
      • 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 […]

    • Open Whanganui
      • 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 […]

    • Pūheke : City to Sea
      • 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 […]

    • Position Statement: The Architectural Centre
      • Photo above: Mr and Mrs W. Shaw and son Nicholas, first tenants in the Gordon Wilson state flats on The Terrace, Wellington. Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper. Ref: EP/1959/1911-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23503306 Decision from the Minister for Housing, Chris Bishop: The Architectural Centre’s Position […]

    • “Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments”
      • 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 […]

    • Recent Media Attention
      • The open letter to Hon Chris Bishop has stimulated a bit of a response from the media. You can see the activity here: Scoop posted the letter: https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=159785 The Post: https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350249603/last-ditch-bid-save-derelict-eyesore NZ Herald: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingtons-gordon-wilson-flats-could-be-demolished-for-victoria-university-accommodation/PMPWHZJ26NDPBGPVQQPL6LPGEY/ Eye of the Fish: https://eyeofthefish.org/last-ditch-bid-to-save-fantastic-modernist-building/ TVNZ+: 1News at Six – Saturday 20 Apr (available till 27 Apr) ThreeNow: NewsHub 6pm – Saturday 20 Apr (available till 22 Apr)

    • Adapted reuse scheme for Gordon Wilson Memorial Apartments
      • 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) […]

    • Returning to housing
      • 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.

    • Age diversity
      • 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 […]

    • Review: Ultrawild
      • 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 […]

    • Review: The Drifting Room
      • 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 […]

    • Housing Manifesto
      • 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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