Reflections on Christchurch

Created Apr 02 2012

I never really understood what Post-Traumatic Shock Disorder was until I began to visit Christchurch a couple of months back.

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Keywords: Architecture Christchurch Earthquake Heritage Opinion

What Mies Means to Me

Created Mar 27 2012

Google reminded me that today, March 27th, 2012, is the 126th birthday of Mies, or, as he named himself Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – congratulations! I guess the 1,280,000 results of Google ensure that almost everything has been said about him and his masterful architecture of ascetic Modernism.

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Keywords: Architecture News Opinion

Creativity Unleashed!

Created Feb 10 2012

A brief look at the recent architecture of Latin America shows an amazing burst of creativity.

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Keywords: Architecture School Urban design Cultural Facilities

Will Cesar Pelli Kill the World Heritage of Seville?

Created Jan 25 2012

About 200 years ago Rossini’s comic opera “The Barber of Seville” entered the stage.

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Keywords: Architecture Commercial Urban design Heritage Spain

Next Chinese Architecture

Created Jan 23 2012

Just before the break I received the latest issue of the Spanish magazine Arquitectura&Viva (A&V), which exclusively dealt with Chinese architecture executed by Chinese architects.

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Keywords: Architecture China

1972 – The Best of German Architecture

Created Oct 19 2011

Sometimes I get asked what my favourite piece of German architecture is.

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Keywords: Architecture Heritage Opinion

Façadism along the Forgotten World Highway

Created Sep 30 2011

As it was my birthday last week, I took a week of leave to console myself.

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Keywords: Architecture Heritage

Being an Architect’s Engineer

Created Sep 19 2011

I've been pondering what makes our engineers so special.

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Keywords: Architecture Engineering Opinion

Thank You, Auckland School of Architecture!

Created Sep 12 2011

Over the last fortnight Stephenson&Turner took part in the ‘Open Desk Programme’ of the Auckland University’s School of Architecture.

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Keywords: Architecture Scholarship Company News

Would you care for a dance?

Created Sep 06 2011

What better way to get intimate than with a dance – even with a building? Intimacy reflected in the transformative relationship between form and space… by revealing secrets of rhyme and articulation in a well-determined architectural space… with close ups of body and movement… exposing links between old and new, static and moving art, bodies and buildings.

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Keywords: Architecture Video Multimedia