Architecture NZ

Architecture New Zealand is the journal for New Zealand’s architects. For over fifty years it has been at the centre of the profession – keeping architects informed, inspired and engaged with reviews of the latest projects, insightful commentary on key issues and critical discussion of practice matters.

Architecture New Zealand

Deploy the fence

Safe neighbourhoods

Housing and hope

Does your threshold drainage meet code compliance? • If you’re a builder or subcontractor, code compliant level threshold drainage is easier to achieve than you might think.

Across the Board • Architectural news and views

SCOTT BASE REBUILD IN DETAILED DESIGN

GOLD MEDAL LECTURE SERIES

LIFE IN A VERANDAH

OPEN CHRISTCHURCH IS BACK

SUSTAINABLE SOLAR AT METHVEN

MINISTRY GRANTS FOR ARCHITECTURAL NON-FICTION WRITING

FROM NOTHING TO EVERYTHING

NEW HEAD OF SCHOOL

OFFSITE COLAB22 POSTPONED

$600M SPEND ON WYNYARD QUARTER COMMERCIAL

HEKE RUA NATIONAL ARCHIVES BUILDING BREAKS GROUND

MEET THE JURY

State house sustainability • Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities General Manager Patrick Dougherty explains the recent evolution in public housing and his hopes that it will catalyse change in the residential sector.

GET THE LOOK ON YOUR WALLS

Not a dress rehearsal • Julie Stout, recipient of the 2022 Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first woman to receive this honour, reflects on being a woman in architecture, teaching, designing together and the importance of speaking up.

THE EDUCATION OF AN ARCHITECT

AMELIA HOLMES • Interior designer Amelia Holmes is known for her deceptively simple design moves, which exude understated sophistication, comfort and a love of natural fibres. Her current work is focused mainly on residential projects.

Work

Wobbly, like the natural earth • Bill McKay explores the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangārei by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, in collaboration with HB Architecture, Springmann Architektur and the Hundertwasser Non Profit Foundation, and asks whether it’s outsider art or a challenge to the way architecture is made.

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River reflections • Ian Lochhead finds the massive form of Te Pae, Christchurch’s new $450-million convention centre by Woods Bagot in association with Warren and Mahoney, sitting somewhat uneasily amidst its still-crumbling colonial city landscape. But, from a distance, its sweeping, organic curves evoke ki uta ki tai, the interconnectedness of water, landscape and people, and the life-giving force of rivers flowing from mountains to sea.

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A slice of shed, diced • Anna-Marie Chin visits the Central Otago House in Alexandra by RTA Studio and is impressed with the play of sculptural wedges and light.

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Making connections • In the new 2degrees headquarters on Auckland’s Fanshawe Street, an Escher-like stair moves up, down and sideways, breaking down the silos and dialling up the fun. Amanda Harkness visits the Warren and Mahoney-designed workplace.

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Dunedin Guide: Mason & Wales

Toro Whakaara: Responses to our Built Environment

Truth and Lies in Architecture

Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future

Modern Apartment Design

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