Architecture NZ

I’VE NOTICED TWO DISTINCT GROUPS forming among architecture students I’ve been talking to concerning their use of AI chatbots like ChatGPT and text-to-image generators like DALL. E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. The latter can produce images that

I WROTE IN MY LAST COLUMN about a letter I had received, which levelled criticism at some points I had drawn in an earlier column. I didn’t disagree with the points made but receiving the letter and reflecting on it encouraged me to think more on wha

Warren and Mahoney has been appointed to a design consortium to deliver the museum, exhibition and civic whare buildings within Tauranga’s new $303-million civic precinct, Te Manawataki o Te Papa, along Te Papa peninsula in Tauranga Moana. The site f

Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington architecture graduate Ged Finch’s reusable building frame system, X-Frame, is in the running to be voted one of The Earthshot Prize’s top 15 solutions, announced later this year. Nominated for the pre

Tennent Brown’s recently opened Te Whare Hononga at the Taranaki Cathedral site in New Plymouth sits alongside the country’s oldest stone church, St Mary’s (1846), and its restored colonial-era vicarage. A visitor centre and education and exhibition

Following tests in Ōpōtiki in April, which demonstrated that Māori construction techniques are able to withstand major earthquakes, architect and researcher Professor Anthony Hōete and Māori architectonic researcher Jeremy Treadwell plan to rebuild a

In 2020, Studio Pacific Architecture and co-design partners Tihei were commissioned to investigate a refurbishment of the public and staff areas in Heke Puna, the National Library of New Zealand. The project was in response to the construction of Hek

Nanette died peacefully at her Auckland home on 13 April 2023, aged 95. A celebration of her life was held at St Joseph’s Church, Great North Road, in Grey Lynn. Amidst the glorious stained-glass windows by New Zealand modernist painter Milan Mrkusic

SITUATED AT TE UPOKO-O-TE-IKA-A-MĀUI, the city of Wellington is literally the eye in the head of that great fish. Wellington’s curved pedestrian promenade around the edge of the harbour has long been the envy of other cities, making walking or cyclin

IF THE HISTORY OF HOUSE-BUILDING IN Aotearoa tells us anything, it’s that doing things differently is difficult. Builders are as attached to precedent as judges and banks are suspicious of any deviation from individualised lending and ownership norms

IN 2019, GREEN SCHOOL FOUNDERS Michael and Rachel Perrett invited New Plymouth-based architecture practice Boon to design a learning hub for Year 1 to Year 13 students in Taranaki that followed the holistic Green School educational philosophy. The co

How did you come to specialise in residential architecture? I’ve always been fascinated by people and I love the intimacy of working with clients to design their own homes. I look to understand them and then enjoy collaborating with them to produce b

category — Retail project — Faradays design — Cheshire Architects category — Workplace over 1000m2 project — Chapman Tripp Wellington design — Studio Pacific Architecture category — Workplace up to 1000m2 project — Tax Traders design — Material Creat

Winner — Supreme Winner — Retail Design — Cheshire Architects Faradays is a store that not only complements its beautiful heritage architecture but takes it to new heights, embodying a contemporary take on a 1920s’ department store retail experience.

Winner — Workplace over 1000m2 Design — Studio Pacific Architecture One of Aotearoa’s oldest legal practices showcases its roots in this Wellington workplace, offering its employees a warm and welcoming space to celebrate its 150-year existence. Conv

Winner — Workplace up to 1000m2 Design — Material Creative Brave, bold and warm, this fitout represents a future-ready appraisal of workplace through the lens of residential design, offering an uplifting and playful work environment in what is, tradi

Winner — Hospitality Design — CTRL Space Working within a challenging commercial space, the designers have created a level of hospitality layered in sophistication and storytelling that has not yet been seen in the Bay of Plenty region. Picnicka is a

Winner — Civic Design — Glamuzina Architects Clear and contemporary in its formality yet deeply meaningful in its purpose and usage, Kā Uri is an intelligent embodiment of place and culture. The storytelling is focused on what is within the gallery s

Winner — Residential Design — Nott Architects Cinematic, compelling, a perfect infusion of landscape, architecture and interior – it’s almost impossible to know where one starts and the other stops. Ophir is the ultimate example of a design which tru

Winner — Emerging Design Professional Design practice — Oli Booth Architecture The maturity and level of craft evident in Oli’s work is that of a generational talent. Placing equal value and emphasis on both interior and exterior, his outcomes demons

Winner — Healthcare and Wellness Design — Seear-Budd Ross Providing a fresh, new spatial and atmospheric signature for an established hair salon and skin spa, this sophisticated design response draws inspiration from Aotearoa’s alpine environment. Th

Winner — Residential Kitchen Design — Atelier Jones Design If Wes Anderson designed kitchens, they would look and function like this: a brilliant piece of storytelling, place-making and home-building expressed in all aspects of the work. A huge amoun

Winner — Community Impact Design — Ā K A U The power of Te Puna Reo o Manga Tangaroa is in the coming together of a community to fund, design and build Aotearoa’s first full-immersion te reo Mā ori early childhood learning centre. The substance of th

design — Jasmax and Alt Group jasmax.com altgroup.net project — Stolen Girlfriends Club Te Aro, Wellington client — Stolen Girlfriends Club stolengirlfriendsclub.com design team — Jun Tsujimoto, Anna Hill, Emma Jepson, Dean Poole, Dean Murray photogr

Supported by Te Pēwhairangi Bay of Islands has a rich history of occupation, extending back to the first arrival and including important wāhi tapu relating to key Ngāpuhi ancestors located on what is now the Treaty Grounds. The relationships formed b

MY HOUSE TALKS TO ME. It talks of seasons in a language that I barely notice from day to day. It is both a sign language and one of irregular sounds: of distant clicks and slow sighs, often drowned by the clatter of daily domestica. Occasionally, whe