Architecture NZ

THEY DROVE. THEY PARKED. THEY camped. Initially, life in the tent village beside Wellington’s ‘Beehive’ parliament building seemed spontaneous and carefree. They didn’t seem to mind being soaked by the parliamentary lawn sprinklers or being blasted b

HOUSING IS A COMPLEX ISSUE. It’s hard enough doing one-off houses, and navigating irascible clients, budgets and so forth, but a great deal more complicated when one discusses the critical role housing has in the accounting of the country’s wealth an

Inspired by the Waitākere Ranges, Outside In’s large-scale, interior plantscaping project for litigation firm MC ’s (Meredith Connell) Auckland office won the Diamond Award for Best in Show at the 2021 International Plantscape Awards. The life-sized

TALOFA LAVA, READER. I LEFT the column last time with a call for the profession to conceptualise itself as a group of potent co-designers imagining a future that is different from the past. I speculated that heritage concepts in architecture may be e

Antarctica New Zealand’s Scott Base on Ross Island was first designed for Sir Edmund Hillary’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957 and has been occupied continuously since then, with numerous upgrades and additions. Many of the structures at the base

The Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects 2021 Gold Medal has been awarded to Julie Stout of Mitchell Stout Dodd. Stout is the first woman to have received the award – the highest individual architecture honour in Aotearoa – since it

The Sheppard & Rout-designed Ōpuke Thermal Pools and Spa at the base of Mount Hutt opened to the public in December; this is the practice’s first major tourism project since completing the award-winning Dark Sky Project in Takapō in 2019. Water for t

Artist Fiona Jack’s large-scale artwork featuring the word ‘everything’ has lit up the 110-metre-long, 13-metre-high light wall on Auckland’s Bledisloe Wharf, known as The Lightship. The installation is made up of seven panels and almost 8500 LED lig

Developers Precinct Properties and Mansons TCLM have plans for two new commercial buildings in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter, which, when completed, will provide space for more than 1000 office workers. Precinct’s project (pictured below) on 5300m2 at P

Architects Warren and Mahoney have been engaged by developer AMP Capital to deliver a national purpose-built facility for Archives New Zealand in Wellington, “to house and protect our memory of government and significant taonga through the provision

Practice in Profile Supported by Resene the paint the professionals use IT STARTED WITH A CONVERSATION about windows. One of our consultants on the Bader Ventura development suggested that, by using a specific combination of windows and concrete pane

YOU ARRIVE COMPLETELY ‘UNBORN’, in a state of ignorance. You don’t even know you don’t know but you arrive at university, the School of Architecture, and your next life begins. You slowly learn to become an architect. You grow up, have a few wild mom

Your background is in both fashion and interior design. Tell us how the two worlds collided. I studied textile design so, during my study, the two fields naturally crossed over. I always had a strong interest in textures, tones and how materials work

AS A BOY AT A TYPICAL 1970S’ SCHOOL uniform-wearing, single-sex, sports-mad, culturally ignorant high school, in a then typically insular region that was happily demolishing its art deco heritage, I visited a touring exhibition by Austrian artist Fri

THE OPENING OF TE PAE, THE CHRISTCHURCH Convention Centre, on 16 December 2021, auspiciously the 171st anniversary of the arrival of the first Canterbury Association settlers in Lyttelton, marks an important stage in Christchurch’s recovery from the

LOCATION 188 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch FLOOR AREA 28,000m2 NUMBER OF STOREYS Four TIME SCHEDULE Design, documentation: 21 months Construction: 4 years 3 months ARCHITECT Woods Bagot in association with Warren and Mahoney PROJECT TEAM Woods Bagot:

AS ARCHITECTS, WE ARE INHERENTLY curious about what other architects are creating and how they interpret a building, especially to gain a perspective on another response to building in the surroundings in which we predominantly design. This site is l

LOCATION Central Otago SITE AREA 377,575m2 FLOOR AREA 207m2 NUMBER OF STOREYS One TIME SCHEDULE Design, documentation: 11 months Construction: 15 months ARCHITECT RTA Studio PROJECT TEAM Richard Naish, Mitchell Round BUILDER/CONTRACTOR Breen Construc

THIRTEEN YEARS AGO, 2DEGREES BURST onto the local telco scene: the new kid on the block, the disruptor, the Robin Hood of mobile phone land. Its name, patently, stands for connection, not only across the cellular network but also with each other – th

Objectspace, Auckland 12 November 2021 – 20 February 2022 Toro Whakaara: Responses to our Built Environment, curated by Kim Paton and Zoe Black and exhibited at Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau, presents a series of enquiries by five practitioners into t

Supported by Dulux® Colours of New Zealand® With its origins in the practice formed by William Mason (1810–1897) in Dunedin in 1862, Mason & Wales is New Zealand’s oldest architectural practice. Mason had worked in England and Australia before moving

The design of a level threshold drainage system is not as simple as it first seems. The E2 building code is very prescriptive in what will be allowed – is your solution code compliant? Let ACO help with choosing the correct product for your applicati