Category Archives: news

Archi­tec­ture Now

September 21st, 2011
AGM recently kicked off a new web­site devoted to all things archi­tec­ture, land­scape archi­tec­ture, design and build­ing related. Here's the url: http://architecturenow.co.nz/
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Press Release: ProDesign

April 15th, 2011
AGM Pub­lish­ing has made the decision to stop pub­lish­ing its bi-monthly design magazine ProDesign. The next issue, to be pub­lished in May, will be the final edition. ProDesign was first launched in 1992 and has been a faith­ful com­mu­nic­ator of events and activ­ity within the com­mer­cial design sec­tors of graphic design, product design and com­mer­cial interior [...]
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Best Foot Forward

April 4th, 2011
It's that time people – Best Awards entries are open, so line up in an orderly fash­ion and head over here, where you can find all the details!
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Birth­day Tribute

April 1st, 2011
Some­what belatedly we've real­ised that it was Mies van der Rohe's birth­day on Monday – hat-tip to the Archi­tects News­pa­per for the reminder. Unfor­tu­nately, we couldn't attend the Mies van der Rohe Society's cel­eb­rat­ory even­ing of jol­li­fic­a­tion (archi­tec­ture, his­tory and cocktails) – editorial budgets don't stretch to spot trips to Chicago these days – but we did cel­eb­rate in our own spe­cial [...]
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Link Dump

March 30th, 2011
I'm not often moved to com­pile col­lec­tions of links, but this morning's sift through the inbox dross has revealed a few gems. So, for you viewing/reading pleas­ure, here goes: Por­tuguese designer Eduardo Souto de Moura has won this year's Pritzker Prize. Jury chair­man Lord Peter Palumbo said that over the course of a three-decade career de Moura [...]
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Print Sea­son

March 28th, 2011
I've been a bit slow off the mark on the St Paul Street Gallery's Print Sea­son 2011, the best laid plans and all that, but there have been some great events and exhib­i­tions already. The next one on the sched­ule is the third exhib­i­tion sea­son 2011, by South Island artists Barry Cleavin and Jason Greig, open­ing [...]
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Designday Pho­tos

March 24th, 2011
Urbis magazine has a nice new web­site: urbismagazine.com. You should go there and check out there pics from last Saturday's Designday bon­anza. You might even see your­self, if you were one of the 2000 people who took advant­age of the oppor­tun­ity to hit the show­room circuit.
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Urbis Designday Tomorrow

March 18th, 2011
Hands up if you're going… If you're not, here's a list of all the great things you're going to miss. You can buy tick­ets on the day at the MINI Gar­age in Pon­sonby – that's Urbis HQ for the day. See you there.
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Plu­men: Design of the Year

March 16th, 2011
Brit­ish designer Samuel Wilkin­son and product design com­pany Hul­ger, have taken out the Brit Insur­ance Design of the Year 2011. The win­ning product is a redesigned low-energy light bulb, which beat out more than 90 other entries on the way to claim­ing the title. The judges said of Plu­men, that low-energy light bulbs have never been regarded [...]
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Autumn Lec­ture Series

March 15th, 2011
The Uni­ver­sity of Auckland’s School of Archi­tec­ture and Plan­ning will launch its pop­u­lar Com­mu­niqué Autumn Lec­ture Series with a show­case of national and inter­na­tional experts that spans pro­fes­sions and disciplines. Now in its fourth year, the Com­mu­niqué pub­lic lec­ture series high­lights the breadth and depth of the National Insti­tute of Cre­at­ive Arts and Indus­tries (NICAI), widely [...]
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