From desire to necessity: Why do we always want more?
Building Today columnist and Architect Don Bunting wonders if we feel better and more successful if we own the best and largest house we...
True lies
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...
Risky business
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...
Early innovation
By Architect Don Bunting
It might be hard to imagine what Vlad Peles — also known also as Vlad Dracul (devil) and Vlad The Impaler...
Your personal Shangri La — what would it look like?
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...
Cracking up
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 black hole
Architect Don Bunting seeks out our lost construction industry.It might have sounded like April Fool’s Day but, in fact, it was April 11 this...
A numbers game
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...
Power to the people
Architect Don Bunting muses about power usage and the planet.John Lennon’s 1971 song Power to the People was an impassioned cry for political power...
Really?
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...