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.

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Across the Board

DOLOMITE POINT PROJECT AIMS FOR DOUBLE CARBON ZERO

INTERIOR AWARDS: COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD

LEARNINGS FROM A GLOBAL AWARDS PROGRAMME • Juliana Wilson travelled to World Architecture Festival 2022 and observed the ways in which the global competition’s engaging format facilitates competitiveness and collegiality.

Across the Board

SCREEN WITH A VIEW • Amanda Harkness visits Monk Mackenzie’s Jervois apartments in Auckland’s Herne Bay and finds an intriguing treatment of private and public realms.

NURTURING THE LIFE-FORCE OF PAPATŪĀNUKU • The 2022 Te Kāhui Whaihanga Resene Student Design Awards winner, AUT MArch (Prof) student Matangireia Yates-Francis (Te Arawa, Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Maniapoto), describes his project Tūhononga, in which he sees a shift towards true Māori-centred architecture potentially aiding the survival of our planet.

MATERIAL FOCUS: GULF RISE • Metlifecare’s latest offering, Gulf Rise, recently opened its clubhouse at the heart of the coastal village. Urban Lounge’s lead designer, Katherine Lennox, tells us about the interior design studio’s thinking behind the communal spaces.

OBITUARY: JEREMY SALMOND • Sarosh Mulla pays tribute to one of New Zealand’s most highly respected heritage and conservation architects.

DAJIANG TAI • As a principal at Cheshire Architects and project architect for one of the country’s most elegant hotels, The Hotel Britomart, Dajiang Tai is making his mark in the world of interiors.

Genius loci • Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson, awarded the 2022 Gold Medal by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects, reflect on 20 years of their practice: the way architecture expresses identity and how individuals and communities identify with buildings.

Possibilities for the future of the city • Mark Southcombe, Hannah Hopewell and Isaac Velasco present an edited discussion on the process and findings of ‘Re-imagining Mass Housing’ and ‘Re-imagining Just Landscapes: Pito-one’ – two multi-scaled, urban architecture and landscape design research studios undertaken in 2022 by Te Kura Waihanga Wellington School of Architecture MArch students in collaboration with Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai Hutt City Council.

Work

Where mysteries live • Jasper van der Lingen is entranced by Warren and Mahoney’s high-country Flock Hill Station Homestead.

Civic good manners • John Walsh talks to Gary Todd of Gary Todd Architecture about his award-winning Ebb-Dunedin and its underlying narrative to connect the building in place and time.

He kooti hou • Jade Kake explores the multilayered design features of Te Kooti Whenua Māori, the new Māori Land Court in Whangārei, by GHDWoodhead creativespaces and Studio Pasifika.

Aotearoa New Zealand Architecture Books, 2022

Oceanic Architectural Routes: The photographic archive of Mike Austin

Ngā Pūtahitanga/Crossings

NORTHBEAM SG10 HELPS DESIGNERS MEET NEW H1 CODE REQUIREMENTS • Less timber equals less thermal bridging, leading to significant benefits

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