Déjà Vu again
It was Yogi Berra, former manager of the New York Yankees baseball team, who first said: It’s like déjà vu all over again —...
Good, better, best
At the time of a personal career change in the late 1990s, when I moved from architecture to working with industry organisations and government...
A convention
Is there an unwritten convention that large shopping centres have to be unattractive? I couldn’t name even one such centre that looks like anything...
A lot of hot air?
More concerning — and the article was headed “working with nature” — was that among a number of highlighted features were “the installation of...
Celebrity
One of the mysteries of modern life is that a TV weather announcer can become an instant celebrity — assuming they are prepared to...
Never happened
With scientific and social change occurring at an ever increasing rate, it’s surprising what technology has failed to produce — and what has never...
Speaking Frankly
Architect Don Bunting reflects on a 20th Century architectural icon, and some recent issues affecting today’s design and construction industry.
2015 represents 100 years since...
Where did we go wrong?
Too many members of the construction industry don’t understand how the Building Code works, and that is a real concern. I noticed a...
What really went wrong?
There has also been a lack of qualitative research, and even today there is no clear analysis of: • how many buildings of...
Game of two halves
Christchurch. Still battered and bruised nearly two years after the first earthquake. But as a visit in late 2011 showed, there are some signs...