A quick snapshot of some news: HNZ dubiousness, Queens Wharf revivals, Venice Biannele catalysts and Plant Room cheekiness.
First off, the NZ Herald
reports on dubious (and "isolated") on-goings at Housing New Zealand, apparently an HNZ staff member has been soliciting bribes for preferential treatment... HNZ seem to be doing the right thing about it.
The tempestuous Queens Wharf competition doubles its budget to $100m for the winning (and developed)
proposal from Jasmax and Architectus published by the Herald earlier this week. Apparently "
revived" by switching to a night-shot. Nice. (I'm kidding). I hope to get genuinely informed on this soon.
Architectural dexterity doubles the budget brilliantly. (Images from NZ Herald)
Finally it seems, the profession follows up what a group of students managed in the 90's, by sending a pavillion to the
12th Venice International Architecture Biennale. Creatively Directed by Tony van Raat (recent guest-editor of a refreshing portion of Architecture NZ), they are currently seeking sponsorship to cover the fairly epic journey across the globe, so give it a thought. Announced
here at Cross Section.
Incase it slipped off your radar,
the Plant Room (Wellington's
SHAC team) have posted some new developments including some Cheeky Diagrams and Renders.
Check them out here, and also start dropping SHAC '11 into your conversations... Next week we'll hear from Tim Bishop,
SHAC's organiser for more info...
If you've stumbled across -or are responsible for- some (of this) news, send me a mail to speak@productspec.net, and we'll see what we can do.