Outer space
To misquote Wordsworth, I recently “wandered past a lonely cloud” to the end of Queen’s Wharf in Auckland. Queen’s Wharf was the centre of...
Knee jerk reaction
You can be sure that as soon as there is any sign of a likely early summer dry spell in the South Island, the...
Get Set
Fact: The word with most entries in the Oxford Dictionary is “set” — a word able to be used as a noun, adjective or...
Cast aside
Noticing the poignant wording on an old footpath grating — “Patent applied for” — reminded me what a great building material cast iron is,...
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...
The cheaper the better
And yet that apparent dream world was once common practice for any major construction contract. What happened? The 1980s happened. If ever there...
Green not Green
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...
A lot of hot air?
More concerning — and the article was headed “working with nature” — was that among a number of highlighted features were “the installation of...
An inconvenient truth
Now they’ve decided that some of those nice chemicals are actually a bit off — and as boron is just like taking aspirin then...
Material quality
During a recent visit to Sydney I watched a report on television about substandard imported building materials — specifically concerning the safety of electrical...