Urban Adaptations – Devonport Tomorrow exhibition coming up at Depot Artspace

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University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning student Anushka Aveykoon presents at the final crit on Tuesday 10 June. Image: Constantine Kwan

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The Architecture Masters students with their design critiquers/reviewers. Image: Ken Davis

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How might the village of Devonport, with its wonderful natural setting and heritage main street, be adapted and enhanced into an invigorated and sustainable town centre that addresses the future needs of locals for more housing, workplaces and amenities, a stronger local economy, and better connection between the maunga, Takarunga Mt Victoria and the moana?

This collaborative project shares creative propositions for the future development of Devonport village on Auckland’s North Shore, from an overall masterplan and individual sites worked up in models and visualisations.

Led by Devonport locals Julie Stout (Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects gold medal recipient) and architect Ken Davis, this exhibition features the work of 18 Architecture Masters students from the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning.

EXHIBITIONS

A Figure Ground drawing of the existing Devonport Town Centre,with buildings in black and open space between buildings in white, demonstrating the amount of open space that could potentially be integrated for more public access and use in Devonport. Image: Supplied

Urban Adaptations – Te Hau Kapua Mō Apōpō/ Devonport Tomorrow
Wednesday 16 July – Sunday 27 July 2025

Exhibition opening: Wednesday 16 July at 3 Victoria Road, 6pm to 8pm
Venue: Depot Artspace, 3 Victoria Road, Devonport

Urban Adaptations – Devonport Tomorrow dovetails with the exhibition/installation Building (Under the Volcano) at the Whare Toi. This project is a collaboration between artist Richard Reddaway (Massey University College of Creative Arts), designer and architectural historian Kate Linzey (The Architectural Centre), and architect Matt Liggins and architecture students from the University of Auckland’s Bachelor of Architectural Studies. It explores suburban built environments and the genealogy of forms that constitute Te Hau Kapua Devonport to ponder relationships to the whenua, how we choose to create our homes and how different cultural understandings and expressions of home shape our suburban environment.

PUBLIC PROGRAMMES

Lectures

Heritage and Adaptive Re-Use

Date: Saturday 26 July, 10am
Venue: Harmony Hall, 4 Wynyard Street, Devonport
Presented by: Devonport architectural historian Julia Gatley and heritage architect Joanna Theodore.

Density and Liveability - What this means and how to deliver it

Date: Wednesday 13 August at 7pm
Venue: Harmony Hall, 4 Wynyard Street, Devonport
Presented by: George Weeks, planner and urban designer.

Density, in terms of New Zealand’s built environment, is often perceived as the antithesis to the Kiwi Dream. But what about places, both overseas and in New Zealand, that use density to increase quality of life? Join planner and urban designer George Weeks for a world tour of best practice. Learn what dense liveability means and what is needed to make it happen consistently.

Movies

Citizen Jane - Battle for the City

Date: Thursday 17 July at 8pm
Venue: The Vic Theatre , 48 Victoria Rd, Devonport
Tickets: Public show, ticketing as per normal on The Vic website, here.