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I recently came across a quote by Barry Humphries, made while he was visiting to promote his upcoming Dame Edna tour of New Zealand....

By Architect Don Bunting   I recently attempted to reduce the amount of old information on my library shelves. As someone once said: your library should...

By Architect Don Bunting   I am hoping that KiwiBuild is more than just another government slogan or over-ambitious call to arms for the industry. So while...

In his final column for Building Today, architect Don Bunting muses upon the apparent difficulty of providing affordable housing in New Zealand. What is wrong...

Walk down any main street in the western world and check what is going on inside those large, bare, plate glass frontages, standing out...

Ask most involved in the construction industry what our building code is and you are likely to receive either a slightly wary look, or...

By Architect Don Bunting   As a tribute to the recent loss of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, I will use the title of her...

On returning from London, I spent the 70s, 80s and 90s as a partner in a commercial design practice. As any who were there will...

I just don’t get Facebook. I know it has more than 1.5 billion worldwide users on a monthly basis, but I don’t see its...

By Architect Don Bunting   Lino is a common Latin name roughly meaning praise. Not sure how this morphed into linotype — a 90-character machine for making...