Getting glassy-eyed in Cairns
In June 2009 the Cairns Regional Council conducted a limited competition for the design of a new visitors centre for the Cairns Gardens. Among...
Raurimu’s twisting spiral
The date: 1898. The problem: How to achieve a workable climb for New Zealand’s main trunk line from Taumarunui to the summit at National...
The simple dignity that is Avebury
Avebury has always affected me deeply. I saw its standing stones first in 1973. It wasn’t their immensity, nor their simple grandeur — rather,...
Falkirk’s big turn on
Dr Kerry Rodgers ruminates upon revolutionary engineering in central Scotland
Tucked away in Bonnie Scotland, north-east of Glasgow, is one of the great...
ING House, Amsterdam
This is certainly what Internationale Nederlanden Groep, aka ING Group, did in 1998. They called in Amsterdam based-architects Roberto Meyer and Jeroen van Schooten...
99 Quay Street, Auckland, turns 100
In the hurly burly that has cluttered our year to date, including the teething pains of a Super City, sundry occupations of assorted CBDs,...
Hadrian’s defining wall
The recent celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall recall that using physical barriers to mark political borders ain’t...
Christchurch salutes the Deans
AMI Stadium is the latest incarnation of what was once Lancaster Park that began life in 1880 under the auspices of the Canterbury Cricket...
The colossus of Leshan
While watching a documentary called Rediscovering the Yangtze, I found — as a geologist in a former incarnation — the geomorphology mind blowing. There...
Constructing a new ‘House of Pain?’
Dr Kerry Rodgers has been uncovering Dunedin's soon-to-be Forsythe Barr Stadium
In July 2009, with the lawyers paid off, ground could finally be...