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January-February 2022

Architecture NZ

Architecture New Zealand is the journal for New Zealand’s architects
  • Architecture NZ1 min read
    Te Ara Ātea Opens
    A new library, community and performance facility in Rolleston, Canterbury, opened to the public in early December. The Warren and Mahoney-designed Te Ara Ātea is the anchor building for the future Rolleston Town Centre master plan, due for completio
  • Architecture NZ1 min read
    2021 Warren Trust Architectural Writing Awards Winners
    In this year’s Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing, entrants were asked to write about homes and whare, kāinga and communities. Congratulations to Celia Mahon-Heap, winner of the Open category, with her essay A long rope ties me to home, an
  • Architecture NZ1 min read
    Latest Addition To Drawing Archive
    Every year, a selected drawing is added to the Tātuhi/Drawing Architecture: Sarah Treadwell Archive and the 2022 addition is by Mikaela King from the University of Auckland. King’s drawing, Residue of Light 04, is a 600x450mm lithograph print on wate
  • Architecture NZ1 min read
    Pwc Tower Takes Property Award
    This year’s Property Council New Zealand Rider Levett Bucknall Property Industry Supreme Award went to the PwC Tower, Commercial Bay, by Warren and Mahoney in association with Woods Bagot and NH Architecture, in what the judges saw as a landmark, mix
  • Architecture NZ1 min read
    Interior Awards 2022 Entries Opening Soon
    Mark your calendars and prepare to complete your submissions because entries for the Interior Awards 2022 are set to open on Tuesday 25 January. As we look forward to celebrating the country’s top interior and spatial designers and their projects, en
  • Architecture NZ3 min read
    Henri Sayes
    Your first home, Truss House, won a Resene Total Colour Award in 2014, with a mix of warm, dusky colours juxtaposed with white walls, punctuated by playful bright elements. Tell us about your colour selection process. Every project has a tone, in the
  • Architecture NZ8 min read
    Idea-building
    AS SPECULATIVE ARCHITECTURAL drawings approach greater levels of abstraction, the question arises as to how (or even if) they might actually contribute to the professional practice of ‘buildable’ architecture. In this article, I reflect on this impor
  • Architecture NZ9 min read
    Inspiration By Incident
    Practice in Profile Supported by WHEN I LOOK BACK ON THE WORK OF our practice of some 35 years, there are many common themes and concerns that connect the individual projects. From the earliest efforts, we have tried to steer the work to be formally
  • Architecture NZ7 min readArchitecture
    Jump With A Twist
    THE PACIFICA IS AUCKLAND’S NEWEST and tallest apartment building, rising from the former foreshore area on the corner of Commerce and Fort Streets in a flurry of swirling glazing to astound a casual visitor to Auckland like myself. With the arrival o
  • Architecture NZ6 min readArchitecture
    A Rock Emerging From The Depths
    THOSE OF US WHO CALL CHRISTCHURCH home and have lived here most of our lives tend to see our place and history as fundamentally split in two. A schism divides the time: before and after the 22 February 2011 Canterbury earthquake. Christchurch changed
  • Architecture NZ7 min read
    With A Little Help From My Friends
    LEAVING HOME HAS NEVER BEEN EASY. There are plenty of young adults holing up with parents before tackling the adventure of going it alone. When you are young, everything is complicated by having less. With fewer things to pack, there’s just so much m
  • Architecture NZ8 min read
    Ko Au Te Awa, I Am The River
    SOUTH OF DUBAI, NEAR WHERE THE UNITED Arab Emirates city borders with Abu Dhabi, sits the 4.38km2 Expo 2020 Dubai site. It’s a vast estate, equivalent to the size of 600 football pitches, we’re told. A satellite view, courtesy of Google, reveals it h
  • Architecture NZ2 min read
    Designing For Desert Dreams
    EXPO 2020 DUBAI has been a signature opportunity for our design-led company to embrace. For the 192 participating countries, this was a best-foot-forward moment. Jasmax, Auckland took the helm on the design concept for the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavili
  • Architecture NZ9 min read
    Guide: House museums
    Supported by Houses are rarely static places. As essential architectural sites, they oscillate between cultivating the kind of personal patina that comes with habitual and active occupation and being subject to the New Zealand obsession: the capricio
  • Architecture NZ3 min read
    Architectural Drawings of Christ’s College
    Sir Miles Warren and Alec Bruce Quentin Wilson Publishing, 2021 What a nice idea a college architect is, suggesting as it does the continuous oversight and nurturing of the school’s campus. Architectural Drawings of Christ’s College, by two of the co
  • Architecture NZ5 min read
    Toro Whakaara: Responses to our Built Environment
    Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki, Christchurch 26 October 2021 – 12 February 2022 A playful montage greets my eyes as the elevator doors slide open at the Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA), Christchurch. ĀKAU’s colourful, floor-vinyl graphic bas
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