Architecture Centre

According to its website "The Architectural Centre Inc. is a multi-disciplinary, independent, voluntary organisation of architects, artists, designers and others with an active interest in architecture, the arts, the built environment and Wellington City. It provides a forum for presentation, discussion and debate within the Wellington community."

Wellingtonians know it as an active lobbyist on city design issues since its founding in 1946. Most recently it has been an influential voice in plans for traffic flows around the Basin Reserve, in seeking to preserve the buildings on the Karori Training College site and in seeking to preserve the Gordon Wilson flats.

Responding to the current crisis (2017) it has published a Manifesto for Housing which among other things stresses that Social Housing is core government business.