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Risky business

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Architect Don Bunting wonders whether warranty insurance is the best way to ensure building quality? The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is considering...

Cracking up

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Architect Don Bunting discovers that building defects are an international issue. I recently visited Sydney, specifically to see how the central city was coping with the...

A numbers game

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Architect Don Bunting examines the facts and figures underlying the current debate on climate change. The UN graph (right) shows that the world population reached...

True lies

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By Architect Don Bunting   American journalist and commentator Michael Kinsey once said: “There are plenty of facts. The trick is in making them make sense.” A...

Your personal Shangri La — what would it look like?

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By Architect Don Bunting   If you had an unlimited budget for your dream home would you be more likely to aim for the audacity of...

Really?

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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

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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

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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?

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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...

Lino-typing

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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...