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      <title>Futuna Chapel named as 21st most beautiful building in the world</title>
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      <description>Futuna Chapel has been honoured by Time Out magazine as the 21st most beautiful building in the world alongside the Taj Mahal and La Sagrada Familia. Featured in the global publication’s list, which showcases stunning architecture across 59 countries and 333 cities, Futuna Chapel is the only New Zealand building to be named. Its recognition […]</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-04-15T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Breathing new life into an architectural treasure</title>
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      <description>Dr Peter Parkes shares his personal account of the work needed to reinstate Futuna Chapel to its former glory. Read Peter’s write up in Architecture Now magazine.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-03-30T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Francis Kéré visit – reviews</title>
      <link>https://futunatrust.org.nz/francis-kere-visit-reviews/</link>
      <description>We are delighted with the impact that Francis Kéré’s recent lecture has had around the motu. Opening the Aotearoa Festival of Architecture in Auckland, then moving on to Christchurch and finally Wellington, the lectures have highlighted the value of architecture in ‘soothing societal ills’. In Architecture Now Shail Tiku wrote:“Kéré does not imagine architects as living in […]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-09-19T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Aotearoa Festival of Architecture 2025</title>
      <link>https://futunatrust.org.nz/aotearoa-festival-of-architecture-2025/</link>
      <description>Aotearoa New Zealand’s annual celebration of architecture is back and bigger than ever! Now taking place during the month of September, the Aotearoa Festival of Architecture – organised by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects – is your chance to connect with architecture in your community. ⁠ Futuna Chapel is proud to be […]</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-08-27T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Changing of the Guard; Futuna welcomes new Patron</title>
      <link>https://futunatrust.org.nz/changing-of-the-guard-futuna-welcomes-new-patron/</link>
      <description>Futuna Chapel Trust has bid farewell to long-serving Patron Chris Cochran (FNZIA MNZM) who stepped down from his role earlier this month after eight years of steadfast support and visionary guidance. With an award-winning background in heritage conservation and architecture, Chris’s tenure as Patron has been pivotal in supporting the Chapel Trustees and to shaping […]</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-08-15T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Recordings of Past Events</title>
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      <description>We record lots of our great events held at Futuna Chapel – both lectures and concerts. Below are some of our recorded events. Michael Sullivan: Oct 2022 We were very pleased to have our very own homegrown architect Michael O’Sullivan of B/OS Architecture as the Futuna Guest Lecturer for 2022. Michael comes from a unique… Continue reading Recordings of Past Events</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-11-03T00:35:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Recordings of Past Events</title>
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      <description>We record lots of our great events held at Futuna Chapel – both lectures and concerts. Below are some of our recorded events. Michael Sullivan: Oct 2022 We were very pleased to have our very own homegrown architect Michael O’Sullivan of B/OS Architecture as the Futuna Guest Lecturer for 2022. Michael comes from a unique… Continue reading Recordings of Past Events</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-11-03T00:35:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Support for our events</title>
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      <description>We are delighted to have been offered financial support by third-generation Wellington construction company L T McGuinness Ltd for forthcoming 2021 events at the chapel. They are supporting our Festival of Architecture and Wellington Heritage Week events. These will include talks on the creation of a virtual reality experience of a visit to the chapel,… Continue reading Support for our events</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:45:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-06-24T02:45:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Henry Russell Walden (1934-2013)</title>
      <link>http://architecture.org.nz/2013/07/29/henry-russell-walden-1934-2013/</link>
      <description>Russell died last week.  His funeral is tomorrow (Tues 30th, 3pm Old St Pauls).&#xD;
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He was born in Timaru, studied architecture at the University of Auckland, and was awarded the first MArch in New Zealand in 1964 with his thesis: “New Zealand Anglican church architecture, 1814-1963″ – all nine volumes of it.  Another first he achieved was gaining a New Zealand Post-Graduate Scholarship in Architecture.  The next year he headed to Birmingham to PhD study and private practice, returning in 1978 as a Reader in Architectural History at VUW, having completed his PhD (1975) and edited the MIT Press publication: The Open Hand: Essays on Le Corbusier (1977), an early collection of essays on Le Corbusier in English.&#xD;
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http://www.futunatrust.org.nz/wp-content/header-images/windows.jpg&#xD;
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Russell is renowned for his passionate relationship to Futuna Chapel – the subject of his Voices of Silence (1987) – as bicultural architecture.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Architectural Centre Inc</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-07-29T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Futuna - to the Future</title>
      <link>http://architecture.org.nz/2011/02/14/futuna-to-the-future/</link>
      <description>Friends of Futuna Chapel Charitable Trust&#xD;
50th Anniversary celebrations 18, 19 and 20 March 2011.&#xD;
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Designed by architect John Scott for the Society of Mary in 1959, the Futuna Retreat Chapel in Karori was opened on 19 March 1961. Futuna Chapel may be New Zealand’s most important building of the 20th century, the first to express in architectural terms New Zealand’s contemporary national identity. The building was awarded a Gold Medal by the New Zealand Institute of Architects and, later, was the recipient of the Institute’s inaugural 25 Year Award.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Architectural Centre Inc</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-02-14T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Futuna Chapel, Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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