Posts by Fraser Gardyne
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"Slutty Sunday sibling" - well said Russell.
I'm also totally over the pathetic holier than thou media beat ups on credit card spending, where there were measures in place to make sure that if inappropriate spending occurred, it was re-payed.
Frankly this looks very much like National lining up their people for the next election and the Herald perhaps understanding that the PI audience is comfortable with this behaviour and wouldn't appreciate their "leaders" coming under scrutiny.
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Hi Graham,
I agree broadly with your points however I totally disagree regarding opening the competition up to international architects.
The problem is not that we don't have great architects, WE DO HAVE GREAT ARCHITECTS. It's that the whole basis for the competition is flawed.
The problem with competitions like this is that to the public they appear to give everyone an equal chance. Anyone certainly could enter this competition but they certainly didn't have an equal chance of winning, no matter how good their ideas were.
The committee identified the teams they thought were capable of completing the work plus a few ideas they thought had merit.
They could have done this with a credentials pitch. They didn't need to mislead over two hundred entrants into spending tens of thousands of creative hours in putting their creative entries together. I'd guess that entrants would have conservatively spent between $10k and $30's time to put a well thought through scheme together.
How much value does the potential client put on their work or is it just for the glory? If you potentially give away your good ideas one day, how much does the client value it in the future?
The most valuable asset that architects have, as with graphic designers like me, are their creative problem solving abilities. It is impossible for any architect to work in a vacuum which is what the competition situation forces. To get great creative solutions you have to work closely with your client.
New Zealand has many extremely talented and experienced architects and architectural practices. Many of them, because we are travelers, have worked with and in the practices of the leading architects of our time. We should be treating them like the professionals they are, not writing them off because of a hopeless competition format.