Episode Playlist
Local Architecture Now - Final episode - with Ellen Young, MD of Paper Road: Connecting Community and Place( 0:59:31)
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The inspiring and active Ellen Young is Managing Director of Paper Road: Connecting Community and Place.
Based in Whanganui, with her unique previous ‘placemaking’ experience at Whanganui District Council, Ellen is now in a position to lead and advise community co-design processes with local councils in our regions.
Her discussion highlights the advocacy processes with councils and communities in activating vital street and public place urban design schemes.
There is much to learn here from her philosophical, yet feet on the ground, knowledge of these important contemporary works.
Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
Published: 19/01/2025 12:30:00 p.m.
Local Architecture Now - with Joel Cosgrove - social geographer( 1:2:52)
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We speak with Joel Cosgrove, social geographer, core curator of Wellington’s Eyegum Music Collective, discussing their Welcome to Nowhere festival as placemaking, our urban 3rd spaces and collective public space.
He suggests that much that we worked on in the past shows more example than the works of present development. Time to think back as we think forward.
Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment.
Published: 22/12/2024 12:30:00 p.m.
Local Architecture Now - with artist Micheline Robinson and placemaking activism and creativity in Hoylake( 0:54:35)
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French Canadian contemporary artist Micheline Robinson, resident in Kapiti Aotearoa, tells her story of placemaking activism and creativity in Hoylake town on the Wirral Peninsula, near Liverpool. In 2009, Micheline, amid renewed growth as an artist, awoke to the declining town quality of Hoylake and the many small towns in the Wirral Borough Merseyside and did something about it.
As a leading figure in the focus for this regional revitalisation, Micheline’s colourful narrative sets up parallels for our current placemaking awareness here locally, nationally and internationally. https://www.michelinerobinson.co.nz/
Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
Published: 27/10/2024 12:30:00 p.m.
Local Architecture Now - with Michael Gloster, author of 'The Shaping of Noosa'.( 1:2:10)
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Michael Gloster, author of 'The Shaping of Noosa', is an architect, urban designer and policy planner.
He discusses the 40 year history of he and his brilliant Noosa Council colleagues in shaping the iconic Noosa coastal district, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
Anyone who knows Noosa and all of us passionate about coastal environment and human settlement planning, can be enriched by this world- leading urban and regional parks development story.
Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
Published: 29/09/2024 12:30:00 p.m.
Local Architecture Now- with Afdel Aziz discusses his groundbreaking documentary 'The Genius of the Place' ( 0:57:45)
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Afdel Aziz (The Conspiracy of Love) discusses his groundbreaking documentary ‘The Genius of the Place'. This is an extraordinarily beautiful film, introducing us to Geoffery Bawa and his architecture in Sri Lanka. Bawa (1919 – 2003), recognised as one of the influential architects of the twentieth century, devoted his work to a discovery of a contemporary Sri Lankan sense of place. Afdel’s interview reveals the importance of the film as a story of Bawa’s life and work within the utterly beautiful Sri Lankan geography, Bawa’s beloved place. Afdel enchanted his film with special interviews among the talented Sri Lankan architects, artists, and craftspeople with whom Bawa collaborated, to bring forward his formative expression of a de-colonised Sri Lankan architecture.
Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
Published: 1/09/2024 12:30:00 p.m.
Local Architecture Now - We meet TreeSpace Kapiti - tree conservation for the lungs of our planet( 0:57:50)
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We meet TreeSpace Kapiti. Viola Palmer, Founder and Geoff Scrase, Chairman, two members of TreeSpace Kapiti introduce us to this new urban tree advocacy group. Advocating the importance of tree canopy quality in urban areas for wellbeing, suburban temperature cooling, and carbon sequestration, they also discuss their latest local planting project, the Miyawaki tiny forest concept.
For more information email treespace.kapiti@gmail.com
Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
Published: 4/08/2024 12:30:00 p.m.
Local Architecture Now-An action-packed interview with James Beban, Co-Owner Urban Edge Planning, Lower Hutt, who is Planning and Natural Hazards Director.( 0:59:38)
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An action-packed interview with James Beban, Co-Owner Urban Edge Planning, Lower Hutt, who is Planning and Natural Hazards Director.
James discusses, in riveting clarity, their District Plan advice in support of individual and investor / developer clients’ intentions. Equally James advises where NOT to build, as experts in natural hazard policy formation and research.
The multi-disciplinary Urban Edge team describe ‘quality’ as their core principle across all services: Resource Consent Planning / Landscape Architecture and Urban Design / District Plan Policy and Private Plan Changes / Natural Hazard Policy Formation and Research.
They have a team of Planners, Landscape Architects and Urban Designers. Their services also include strategic policy advice for local and central government; evidence for council and Environmental Court hearings; Stakeholder and Community consultation.’
https://www.urbanedgeplanning.co.nz/
Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
Published: 9/06/2024 12:30:00 p.m.
Local Architecture Now - Economist Mary Hedges, fundraising manager for the restoration of Christ Church in Ellerslie, discusses the ‘hook’ that enabled their highly successful fundraising campaign for this historic restoration.( 1:0:55)
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Economist Mary Hedges, fundraising manager for the restoration of Christ Church in Ellerslie, discusses the ‘hook’ that enabled their highly successful fundraising campaign for this historic restoration.
The hook: stained glass windows donated by foremost, Victorian stained-glass designer and fabricator Alfred Bell of Clayton and Bell. Mary clearly understood every element of the design report by heritage architects Salmond Reed Architects, to inform their funding application.
This is an exciting adventure of local history, involving Albin Martin, one of the founders of the church and considered ‘The Father of Art’ in Auckland.
Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:
Published: 14/04/2024 12:30:00 p.m.
Local Architecture Now - Ros speaks to the wonderful Giles Keating, current Owner of Athelhampton.( 1:0:53)
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This episode Ros talks with Giles Keating, current Owner of Athelhampton - one of the oldest Tudor manors in England, dated 1485 and pre-1066.
Giles describes his restoration work and their Athelhampton Zero project with Spase Ltd Architects and Surveyors. As a team together, client and architect provided an award-winning conversion of a Grade 1 listed estate into becoming carbon neutral.
Listen here for stories of their restoration of the huge kitchen hearth, writer Thomas Hardy’s deep association with the house after his career as an architect, the house as film location and sharing carbon neutral power installation expertise with Hampton Court consultants.
Athelhampton Manor is open to visitors year round. visit https://www.athelhampton.com
More information can be found at Space architects website https://www.spase.co.uk/portfolio/athelhampton-zero/
Published: 17/03/2024 12:30:00 p.m.
Local Architecture Now - Featuring Paula Clarke from Go Architecture discusses the business of architecture( 1:0:59)
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Paula Clarke of Go Architecture in Lower Hutt discusses the business of architecture. Her excellent design studio is managed with well-considered systems and structure, achieving an optimum working environment for her team. The space supports high quality communication with her clients, colleagues, consultants and contractors. Business and communication systems and a well-designed office environment support her delivery of high-quality architecture.
Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment.
Published: 18/02/2024 12:30:00 p.m.
Featuring Aidan Hart - Talking Islamic and Christian cathedrals( 0:58:19)
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Our ‘Christmas Special’ with Aidan Hart, world-renowned iconographer:
https://aidanharticons.com/
Aidan designed the ‘Tree of Life’ embroidered panel for the anointing at King Charles III Coronation.
He discusses the design of Islamic and Christian cathedrals, including Saint Sophia in Istanbul; & good procurement processes for public architecture and urban design.
Published: 25/12/2023 11:00:00 a.m.