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WIDESPREAD DEMOLITION: There's no urban context. It's hard to design a building on an empty site in a largely demolished street. The Forte Health building on Kilmore St.

Widespread demolition, beefed up structural requirements and strict planning rules have dictated how new Christchurch buildings look, says a leading local architect.

Designs for new Christchurch buildings often attract a negative reaction, with many complaining they are unimaginative glass boxes.

Canterbury chairman of the New Zealand Institute of Architects David Hill said it was not a surprising response.

"Change is easier to handle when it's small and gradual, but of course the change to the fabric of our city has been big and sudden."

New structural codes, the loss of hundreds of buildings and the new city plan all influence a building's final shape, he said.

"The changes since the earthquakes have been very dramatic. It has been very sudden and it will take people time to get used to it. It is a big change."

He said it was hard to design a building for an empty site in a largely demolished street.

"At this stage, some of these buildings are the first off the rank and you are building the first piece of a street. Instead of replacing a rotten tooth, you are building the first tooth.

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Because they can only talk to their dogs so much.

Thats just one reason a group of 10 to 12 Madison-area architects all sole practitioners, with no business partners or employees started meeting monthly in 2007 at a local coffee shop for what founder Todd Barnett describes as roundtable discussions about their business problems, strategies, tools and successes.

Member Tom McHugh, who designs furniture in addition to being an architect, was the one who made the dog joke. But all in the group say they value the interactions as a replacement for what theyd have daily with colleagues if they were employed at bigger architectural firms.

If we as individuals have kind of a big idea, this is a group that we can come to share that with, said Andrew Braman-Wanek of Gingko House Architecture. On our own, it doesnt mean a whole lot, without someone to bounce it off of. Even its a completely hypothetical idea, it can turn into a really exciting discussion about all the possibilities.

As it is, working alone out of home offices for a variety of residential and commercial clients can be too much of an echo chamber for the creative process, they said.

What this (group) did was replace that office give-and-take that when you work alone you really start to miss, said Elizabeth Cwik, the sole woman in the group. But what I like about the group is that it doesnt descend into just a gossip and complaint session which is actually what I found more of in an (outside) office. So this group actually tends to be more professional.

We talk about our projects, whats going right, whats going wrong, she added. Sometimes it just really helps to have a gut-check, with 12 people who share points of view.

Its a few minutes before 11:30 a.m. on a Wednesday in early June, and several members of the roundtable are starting to gather in a side room at Cargo Coffee on South Park Street in Madison.

This is the groups customary meeting spot and time, for about two hours of mostly casual conversation about their jobs and profession on the first Wednesday of every month.

Sometimes members mix it up a little, gathering elsewhere for guided tours of architectural interest such as the time they visited the USDAs Forest Products Laboratory to learn more about wood strengths, or the time they toured Carley, Wood Associates, the Madison craft shop that did the interior woodwork for UW-Madisons Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.

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MANILA Kenneth Yap Hubiera, a graduate of Ateneo de Davao University, topped the Architecture Licensure Exam taken on June 7 and 9 in Manila, scoring 86 percent in the exam that also saw 901 of 1,767 testers become new architects.

Dale Jon Cortez Esconde from the University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman) ranked second with a score of 85.90 percent.

Justin Santos Roque, of Holy Angel University, and Patrick Andrew Tanhuaco Yuchenkang, of University of Santo Tomas, tied in third with 85 percent.

Three students who ranked fourth: Lindon Acena Fontejon, University of Northern Philippines-Vigan; Roger Mendoza Sarmineto III, of Polytechnic University of the Philippines- Sta. Mesa; and Clarissa May Mendoza Segura, of Ateneo De Davao University, all got 84.90 percent.

Pedro Miranda Santos Jr. from the UP-Diliman ranked fifth with 84.70 percent, the reports showed.

Misael Renz Costales Granil, Tarlac State University, and Jahzeel Veloso Magdadaro, UP-Mindanao, ranked sixth with 84.20 percent.

Rebecca Aboda Cantallejo and Catherine Marie Tanchico Reyes, from the UP-Diliman, got seventh with 84 percent.

Robert Cris Zamora, of Technological Institute of the Philippines-Manila, and Valerie Anne Patricia Adriano Consuji, of UP-Diliman, both got 83.90 percent, ranking eighth.

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