Alastair Baxter's Two Worlds

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Seven Coconuts to the Litre

There haven’t been too many good news stories coming out of Fiji in the last year or so. Mostly we hear about delayed elections, expelled diplomats, news censorship or even devastating floods. However, behind all this at a local level there are some great sustainability projects being developed in this Pacific Island nation and one [...]

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President of Fiji, Ratu Epeli Nailatikau and me

Thanks and onwards

July 29th, 2010
Firstly thank you for all the kind and informative responses to my debut blog. Thank you also for all the invitations to visit your home stadiums in a number of different locations around the world – I would love to try and visit as many as possible to showcase them on my blog but I fear I may not be able to get to them all.

I would also like to thank you for informing me of two more architect rugby players – Hugo Porta and Wynand Claassen who both played rugby in the amateur era. Porta was a fly half from Argentina between 1971 and 1990 (a 19 year international career – extraordinary!) and Claassen was a Number 8 for South Africa in the early 80’s.

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Two Worlds

July 23rd, 2010
I’m passionate about sports stadiums, 1950’s modernist houses, transport architecture, sustainability, German sailing boats and rugby.

I am in the fairly rare position of being both a professional rugby union player as well as involved in the design of stadiums as a practicing graduate architect for Cox Richardson Architects (I have not yet sat my registration exams so I am only allowed to call myself a graduate architect).

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Facing Tomorrow Today – Speech given December 2009
July 15th, 2010
Facing Tomorrow Today

Future Opportunities and Challenges in Sustainable Tourism, Architecture and Rugby

Firstly I would just like to thank the FABC and Chris Andrew from Greenlight in inviting me to speak tonight and Digicel for sponsoring the dinner.

I would also like to thank, on behalf of all the Australian Super 14 players, Air Pacific and Fijian Tourism for their continued support of rugby union in Australia.

Quickly before I begin though, my plan tonight if possible, is to speak briefly about sustainability, then about rugby and then I’d be happy to open the floor to questions if there are any, where I’m pleased to discuss rugby, architecture, sustainability or anything else you wish to ask me about.

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