Highlights include:
TRAIN TOUR TO NEW LYNN & WAITAKERE CITY (Visit the libraries with the architects and ask all those tricky questions!)
Saturday 13th October. Departure from Britomart Station,
assemble at 9am. Returns to Britomart by 2pm
Tours hosted by the architects of the New Lynn Library (Moller
Architects), and Waitakere Central and Library (Architectus and
Athfield Architects). Plus external walk round of the New Lynn
Community Centre.
12 YEARS OF HOME + ENTERTAINING
HOME OF THE YEAR WINNERS
Eon Design Centre, New Showroom:
16 Customs Street East, phone 368 4860
Hours: Monday-Friday 9–5pm
Compare stunning houses which have won New Zealand’s most
prestigious housing award over the past 12 years.
URBAN SPOILER CONSTRUCTIONS
Location: Britomart Square, all week.
City workers and passers-by will enjoy watching the future
stars of architecture transform the Britomart Precinct with their
project, which will see Architectural and Design students from
the University of Auckland , AUT and Unitec build three full scale
sculptural pavilions from scaffolding materials.
FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER
12.30pm – Home New Zealand/Fletcher Aluminium
Home of the Year Lecture Series
Gerald Melling, Melling Morse Architects, Wellington.
Four-time Home of the Year finalist Gerald Melling of Melling Morse
Architects discusses the practice’s unique architectural style, their
favourite homes, and the perils of being pigeonholed as the “thrifty”
architects.
8.20pm – Pecha Kucha evening
This event consists of entertaining, rapid-fire presentations by artists,
craftspeople, architects, designers, photographers and others.
www.pechakucha.co.nz
