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The buildings notice me and Duncan Winder: architectural photographs
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Two shows in Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery ask us to consider relationships between things — between our built environment and lived experience, works of art and architecture, works and gallery. The ...
Old House: Drawing Interface
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Whilst humans clutched their wine glasses, shifting about the space with interest, Twose’s assembly of ‘sketch creatures’ stood tripodally still, holding ground, as if waiting to burst into activity o...
New Zealand architecture to unfold at Venice Biennale
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Simon Twose and Andrew Barrie have been invited to present an installation of their architectural design work at the Palazzo Bembo in Venice, as part of the 13th International Architecture Biennale, 201...
A+W.NZ Tātuhi Drawing Archive selection
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Jansen-Luke’s illustration formed part of her thesis, One of these is not like the other: Our mark on an eroding coastline, and her media for the 1600 x 600mm/2000 x 720mm artwork were aluminium plate...
A+W NZ Tātuhi Drawing Archive
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The annual selection for the drawing prize is made by Sarah Treadwell along with her co-selectors Marian Macken, Ashleigh Smith, Simon Twose, Sharon Jansen, Karamia Müller and Lynda Simmons. The 2024 a...
Expanded drawing explored at Te Auaha Gallery exhibition, Old House
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/ Old House sketches a tiny, run-down family house, sitting at the edge of the sea in Kaikōura, Aotearoa, through ‘expanded’ architecture drawings. / The little house seems to be in conversation wi...
Review: Drawing Room
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On the upper floor of CoCA, a propositional architectural drawing floats through three spaces of the gallery. In the largest space, there is an enormous mechanical arm, tethered to the wall by its elb...
New Zealand at the 2012 Venice Biennale: Andrew Barrie
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The installation by Simon Twose and Dr Andrew Barrie is part of the Traces of Centuries & Future Steps show at the Palazzo Bembo, located on Venice’s Grand Canal a few steps from the famous Rialto Bridg...
The Courtenay Place project
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Although all proposals must respect the heritage value of the buildings, architectural design lecturer and course coordinator Simon Twose thinks results are likely to be interestingly varied. “The stude...
Installing the Familial Clouds
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The next task: Simon Twose and Victoria University Master’s student, Henry Stevens, will begin attaching a multitude of brackets, mirrors, slides, models and drawings to the walls. At the same time myse...
Time Space Existence down under
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The exterior draws on a range of historic, symbolic and material interests, while the interior is enclosed and snug. / Simon Twose / New Zealand architect Simon Twose’s Concrete /Cloud/ presents a 1:1...
Book review: Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice
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This drawing culture reached a high point with the exquisitely detailed, if inscrutable, drawings of Simon Twose in the late 1980s and with the School’s scooping of the Venice Prize at the 1991 Venice B...
Architect interview: Nick Roberts
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Simon Twose and Ath [Ian Athfield] are precedents in this regard, and it’s something I try to carry into whatever project I work on now. AMH: What is the most exciting or interesting project you've been...
Waitomo Visitor Centre
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I was amazed last year to hear Simon Twose describe his very urban and urbane Leek Street building, a largely interior renovation that rates among Auckland’s most interesting recent projects, as a readi...
Big week for VUW School of Architecture
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Along with the director of postgraduate programmes, Simon Twose, Moloney is committed to the view that this group of students effectively form a large research engine with almost 100-person years of des...