On death and the sublime

Pip Cheshire

THE TELEVISION BURBLED away in the background: the evening news. I was trying to head off a rook/bishop trap my former flatmate had set. Such was his confidence in the inescapable array he had established on the board that his attention shifted as I squirmed. He shared his thoughts on the many failures of the building into which he had just recently moved. I seized on the conversation, saved from my predicament on the board between us by this shift, the game forgotten as the newsreader announced that the very building my opponent had been discussing had just received an Institute of Architects award. With the confidence of ignorance, I proclaimed the absurdity of awarding a building with so many obvious failures, whereupon my opponent challenged me to do something…

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Architecture NZ (Digital) - 1 Issue, March-April 2025

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