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Opinion: Keeping the Queen clean
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“The desire to return to ‘normal’ is a potent motivation but there is an awful feeling that perhaps this time we may have ‘cooked our goose’…” Pip Cheshire muses on the future of Queen St.
Opinion: Parallel education systems
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Lynda Simmons looks forward to the day when architectural students can move between Māori and Pākehā systems of learning.
Editorial: Chris Barton on post-COVID environmentalism
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The Architecture NZ editor weighs in on experts’ claims that sustainable buildings will become mainstream in a post-COVID era.
Opinion: Time for a planner-free zone
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Pip Cheshire dreams of a ‘planner-free zone’, where tradition is set aside in favour of research, analysis and innovation.
Opinion: The disappearing plan and section
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“I need to close my eyes often when looking at projects on screens, in a feeble attempt to control the visual information as the architectural object rotates,” Lynda Simmons laments.
Editorial: Chris Barton on COVID-era architecture
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The effects of healthy obsessions on architecture can be profound. The challenge for architects now will be creating something that also deals with fear: something inspirational and uplifting.
Opinion: Remaking our country
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Pip Cheshire: “We have a choice as a profession…shall we seize the day and use this time of upheaval to speak out and be agents of change?”
Opinion: The value of print
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Lynda Simmons: “Print media has always defined the way we store architectural as well as art histories, whether via books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers or personal letters.”
Editorial: Chris Barton on monuments
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“If architecture is to play a part in this transformation [of problematic public monuments], it’s also necessary to build anew, rather than just demolish.”
Opinion: Uncertain times
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Pip Cheshire: “It’s been a rude shock that our stock in trade, the bricks and mortar realisation of our lofty dreams, is of no value when the unseen hand of disease strikes.”
Opinion: Environmental emergencies
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Lynda Simmons on addressing climate change: “Change proved to be simple: just stop. Just stop doing the thing that causes harm.”
Editorial: Chris Barton on the way forward
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“Of the many insights COVID-19 brings, the realisation that our economy is built as a house of cards is one of the more sobering.”
Opinion: The education of architects
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Lynda Simmons believes discussions on academia are important to remind the industry “that universities are more than technical schools producing workers for industry”.
Opinion: In consideration of users
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Pip Cheshire notes, “…we architects have a duty, at the very least, to treat our building users with humanity, respect and civility.”
Editorial: Chris Barton on complacency
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Architecture New Zealand editor Chris Barton muses on the creation of a ‘Museum of Head-in-the Sand Climate Change Complacency’.
Opinion: Change is difficult
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Lynda Simmons speaks on solving the issue of the need for reduced-hour working weeks as a collective.
Opinion: The naked emperor
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Pip Cheshire asks about the decision-making process in creating buildings and craves more than the answers given in public discourse.
Editorial: Chris Barton on giving back
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Chris Barton discusses a recent declaration by one architecture firm to strive for carbon neutrality and the lack of such aims by Kiwi firms.
Opinion: The architect’s folly
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Pip Cheshire asserts that architecture has nothing to do with buildings but is all about the space between them.
Opinion: The power of awards
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Lynda Simmons on assessment and the highs and lows of programmes for architectural accolades.