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Friday, 28 May 2021, 8:36 am
After a year of uncertainty, the 17th
International Architecture Exhibition of the La Biennale di
Venezia in 2021 has opened, and features the installation
Learning from Trees: transforming timber culture in Aotearoa
from the School of Architecture and Planning, University of
Auckland.
Learning with
Trees
La Biennale di Venezia, or Architecture
Biennale, is the leading and longest-running architectural
event in the world, and runs in alternate years to the Art
Biennale, with more than 60 countries participating.
It
is an invitation for architects and designers to explore
questions and possible solutions to respond to current
social and environmental pressures. Each pavilion is curated
Friday, 21 May 2021, 4:44 pm
This winter Te Uru presents
Party in Piha by
97-year old Titirangi photographer Arne Loot. The exhibition
documents the legendary full-moon beach parties that took
place in the remote coastal settlement of Piha in the 1960s.
It has been created from a series of original proof sheets
that Loot used to make for young party-host, Brian
Rainger.
Arne
Loot Party in
Piha Party in
Piha celebrates a unique selection of photographs that
connects us to the rich social history of west Auckland and
is a rare glimpse into a vast archive from Loot’s long
career, much of which has never been seen and cannot be
Saturday, 15 May 2021, 4:13 pm
Daniel
Jones winning the Hawke s Bay Marathon. Photo
FinisherPix
Runners from across New
Zealand have flocked to the sold-out New Zealand Sotheby’s
International Realty Hawke’s Bay Marathon, taking on
Marathon, Half-Marathon and 10km distance events with the
following individuals winning the respective
titles:
New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty
Marathon
Daniel Jones – 02:25:34
Bethany
Bromfield – 02:56:29
2degrees Half
Marathon
Olivia Burne
– 01:19:53
Havana Coffee 10km
Esther George – 00:36:16
The
winners joined more than 8,000 competitors for the fifth
running of Hawke’s Bay Marathon, the biggest in the
event’s history.
Once across the finish line,
participants enjoyed New Zealand’s best finish line