September-October 2023

Architecture NZ

Architecture New Zealand is the journal for New Zealand’s architects

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Unleashing Architectural Creativity
In the realm of modern architecture, materials that offer flexibility and creative freedom are highly sought after. EQUITONE, a cutting-edge building facade material, is a versatile solution that allows designers to bring their visions to life. With
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PUBLISHER Nathan Inkpen EDITOR Chris Barton DEPUTY EDITOR/INTERIOR EDITOR Amanda Harkness ART & PRODUCTION DIRECTOR André Kini ADVERTISING SALES Mark Lipman – mark.lipman@agm.co.nz CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER ANZ Ashleigh Porter ■
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Impervious Vs Absorbent
“ABOUT 675,000 (ONE IN SEVEN) people across Aotearoa New Zealand already live in flood-prone areas, and this number will increase as rainfall increases, storms become more frequent and sea levels rise.” This sobering statistic from the recently relea
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What Water?
WHO’S UP FOR SCREAMING into the void? I’m just kidding; well, I’m not and I am. OK, this requires more context. My sister and I had a barney about a couple of months ago and the down-pressure system between our two islands is, I would say, Baltic. I
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World Architecture Festival Short List
Fourteen projects by New Zealand architects have been short-listed for this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards, to be judged in late November. In the Completed Buildings category are eight projects: MacKay Curtis’ Mawhitipana House (Hous
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Standing Tall At Hayman Park
Billed as being “taller than six Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnsons”, the new 12.8-metre-high tower at Eke Panuku’s Hayman Park in Manukau is now, officially, the tallest play tower in Aotearoa. The tower forms part of Stage 2 of a playground designed by Wra
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Obituary: Nigel Cook
11 February 1929 – 11 June 2023 Nigel Cook, architect of houses for the New Zealand environment, urban activist, beloved father and good friend, and lover of books, died on 11 June 2023. Nigel was born in 1929 in Kaponga to a family of Methodist Fabi
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Material Focus: Picnicka
How did the concept for Picnicka come about? Our clients wanted to create a space where their guests could “graze and play”, so it needed to feel relaxed and at home but elevated enough to complement the restaurant’s excellent food and beverage offer
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Interior Awards 2023
The Interior Awards returned to its heritage ‘home’ of St Matthew-in-the-City in Auckland for another sold-out evening on Thursday 29 June. Close to 400 guests from the design and architecture industries celebrated both finalists and winners across t
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Five Folly Finalists Selected For Brick Bay
The Brick Bay Folly programme presents students and graduates of architecture and design with a unique opportunity – to examine architectural ideas at a handmade scale while also encapsulating the zeitgeist of the time. In recent years, a commitment
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Voicing A Vision For Uptown
Uptown, where’s that? To most Aucklanders familiar with the isthmus, it’s a part of town just south of the central area, just over the motorway and just a place you go through to get somewhere else. But it wasn’t always like that. Uptown is what the
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All About That Curve
Frustrated with a lack of flow between their original bungalow and its 1970s’ addition, Katie Scott’s clients were looking for a multitasking kitchen: one that offered a space for morning coffees, relaxed meals and cocktails with friends, not to ment
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Silly Analogies From A Serious Practice
I’VE ALWAYS ENJOYED STAND-UP comedy. Not just because it offers a hearty belly laugh but, mostly, because I’m in awe of people who can perform this art at a high level, over and over, night after night, getting better each time. The best of them, Roc
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Celebrating 10 Years Of Innovation In Design
A sincere thank you to the architects and designers who submitted 113 amazing projects from the last 10 years containing either Corian® Solid Surface or FENIX® (in some cases, Corian and FENIX) for our APT ‘Innovation in Design’ 2023 Awards. Our inte
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Suiting Up
ARCHITECTURE DOESN’T ARRIVE ALL AT once. There’s a lot to unpack and hang, ribbons to cut, names to gift. Such welcoming celebrations are important for community, yet it is worth reflecting that we rarely wear the same wardrobe from one event to anot
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Listening To The Building
THE WAVES ARE CLIMBING OUR SEA WALLS and gnawing away at our coastlines, storms are more frequent and intense, and waterfalls are falling from the skies. Climate change is upon us and one thing that has become more apparent in architecture is that we
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Deeply Tau
MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE MY LAST VISIT TO the Ōtaki-based wānanga during the filming of Te Ara a Tāwhaki for the Whakaata Māori television series The Drawing Board in April last year. The former construction site across the road is now a lushly vegetat
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Toni Brandso
You grew up within a particularly creative family. Did this drive your career choice? I think so. From a very young age, I had a love for sewing, art, cooking and all things creative. I was sewing Barbie clothes at age five and drawing my dream house
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Local Architecture Awards 2023
TeKāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects This year’s Local Awards celebrate the best of New Zealand architecture from around the country. National winners will be selected from those showcased on the following pages and announced at the
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Brown vs. Brown
Producer/Director, Simon Mark-Brown Republic Films, 2023 It looks great and the premise of the film is promising. A son seeks understanding of his long-dead architect father, about whom there is some mystery: a changed name, a second family. We have,
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Rewi
Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake Massey University Press, 2023 Rewi, the new book on the architect Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Porou; 1953–2016), edited by Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, demonstrates that an important contribution to architecture is
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ITINERARY_ PoMo in New Zealand
Postmodern architecture stretched, questioned and challenged the aspirations of modernism, from ethics and rationality to transparency and abstraction. For many, Robert Venturi’s “gentle manifesto”, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)
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Setting A New Standard In Workplace Design
From its humble beginnings, Slattery has blossomed into a nationwide property and construction advisory firm with an unwavering focus on the future. Founded in 1976 and proudly Australian-owned, Slattery has earned a stellar reputation for excellence
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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
I HAVE TO CONCEDE I HAVE a fairly facile view of the ground plane. It may be that it bears the burden of my inefficient means of perambulation, anything other than a flat surface mounting a challenge to my forward motion, slopes and hills, in particu

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