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Appreciating the Coromandel Highlands

Some pics from a trip to the Coromandel, North Island, New Zealand with Unitec 1st Yr students.

 

 

Sited at Karekare

Students at the Unitec School of Architecture will be pondering the question, 'How does a site generate architecture?' for the rest of this semester. Following are views from our site visit yesterday.

Church Hall, West Auckland

Construction of this church hall in West Auckland was completed for handover on 9 August 2013. It was a pleasure to project manage it from start, 28 Feb 2013, to finish.


(Design & Build Contractor: Econobuilt, Auckland)

Sou Fujimoto

For works of Sou Fujimoto this is a good link

Fitting the New into Old

A confident conversation with heritage in contemporary times: Heeren Shophouse, Malacca, Malaysia, by SCDA Architects, Singapore.

(from http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/intarch/2006/ia697.html)

(from http://architechnophilia.blogspot.co.nz/2009/11/house-of-week-046-heeren-shophouse.html)

(more available here: http://archidose.org/wp/2003/12/15/malacca-house/)

Thanks to the 3 website sources.

1st Yr Students @ Unitec

Works in progress of my students on the 1st Yr Architecture Course can be viewed here. Comments are greatly valued. Thanks.

(Pic: Klecksograph by Daniel Lovelace)

Present Activity

Besides teaching architecture in Auckland I'm also administering the contract
for the construction of a church hall in one of her suburbs.

An architect can't really stay away from concreting for too long.