Really?
By Architect Don Bunting
I find myself falling back on the above rhetorical response more and more as current events unfold.
Whether it is national or...
Green not Green
By Architect Don Bunting
I recently attempted to reduce the amount of old information on my library shelves. As someone once said: your library should...
Cults
Walk down any main street in the western world and check what is going on inside those large, bare, plate glass frontages, standing out...
What is KiwiBuild?
By Architect Don Bunting
I am hoping that KiwiBuild is more than just another government slogan or over-ambitious call to arms for the industry.
So while...
Respect
By Architect Don Bunting
As a tribute to the recent loss of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, I will use the title of her...
Think
By Architect Don Bunting
Aretha Franklin said it best, in her verson of the song in the Blues Brothers movie. She said: Think . ....
Lino-typing
By Architect Don Bunting
Lino is a common Latin name roughly meaning praise.
Not sure how this morphed into linotype — a 90-character machine for making...
Small things
By Architect Don Bunting
Many simple things, particularly in the field of human hygiene, can appear to have always been there; with who discovered them...
Short-term thinking
By Architect Don Bunting
Common phrases once used in our industry when discussing a proposed new project were:
• What standard do you want — good,...
What’s gone wrong?
On returning from London, I spent the 70s, 80s and 90s as a partner in a commercial design practice.
As any who were there will...