Comments on: From Right House to Drawing Board.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:59:40 +0000

Herald outdoes Dompost yet again!!!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/image.cfm?c_id=6&gal_cid=1502757&gallery_id=108247

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:23:28 +0000

How about this from the Herald re the Western Architecture Awards – http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/image.cfm?c_id=6&gal_cid=6&gallery_id=108234.
Sure makes the DomPost’s one photo on the website for over thirty awards look weak.

By: Maximus

Maximus — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:36:01 +0000

Indeed it is. No less than 3 photos in the paper, although only one photo in the Online thing. They’re still hopeless in my eyes, although they have a revamp on Monday and we’ll see what happens then.

I wonder how we do this chocolate fish thing. Must go and buy some first I guess…

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:19:01 +0000

Chocolate fish time??

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3062176/Wellington-architecture-prizes-reward-sustainability

By: Maximus

Maximus — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:44:43 +0000

Nelson Arch Awards – great ! See the influence this blog has?! The whole of the South Island is reading it too.

Meanwhile, my original bet was re the Dom Post, and the Wellington Awards. I’ll not shirk on the Chocolate fish if they come up trumps on that!

By: mobsta

mobsta — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Maximus,
Have you seen Stuff this morning?

The Nelson Architecture Awards.
A slideshow no less.
About 10 photos – mostly from Irving Jack the best practice down that way.

So there we go.
Choc fishies all round!
We can do pick ups…..

By: lgm

lgm — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:27:49 +0000

… and how can the NZIA be impartial when they are sponsored by places like Resenes?

By: lgm

lgm — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:24:41 +0000

“Bottom Line architects are impartial, highly trained, critical, analitical …”
Are things this straight forward? I’m sure I’ve read a history of professions somewhere that argues they were all set up to protect their own financial/market interests – certainly the NZIA’s been very patch protective in recent years – not that impartial?
… and do you think that every registered architect lives up to your “highly trained, critical, analitical” list? No guarantee me thinks …

By: Maximus

Maximus — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:58:27 +0000

60 – you’re not wrong at all – the old Granny Herald indeed does have a fab new set of web clothes on – but more to the point, they actually have an interest in showing decent design up on their website in the first place!

When was the last time that the Dom Post had any interest in showing architecture ? They need a rocket up them to get off their butts and show an interest in “the mother of all arts”.

Time for a bet, me thinks, that I would like to be losing. Hats off to the Dom Post if they get to print more than one obligatory photo when they run the Wellington NZIA Award winners. But I’ll wager a chocolate Fish that we get a maximus of 1 pic published (not counting NZIA adverts). And I’ll go further: I bet we get nothing at all on the DomPost website. I’ll happily wager an entire box of chocolate Fish to anyone who can convince the Dom to run them on their website.

By: 60 MPa

60 MPa — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:15:13 +0000

There are also the energy efficiency agencies trying to get in on the design stage
http://www.level.org.nz/ (BRANZ)
http://www.smarterhomes.org.nz/
and the Negawatt crowd
Architects are needed more than ever, I reckon

Completely off-topic, there is currently up on the Granny Herald site a rather good slideshow of the Auckers architectural award winners

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/image.cfm?c_id=6&gal_cid=698&gallery_id=107839

Dunno about you lot but some of this I find rather drool-inducing