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.

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.

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.

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 – 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.

Building (Under the Volcano)
Monday 14 July – Saturday 19 July 2025
The Depot’s Whare Toi, Kerr Street, Devonport  

Public Programmes
Architecture and urban development panel discussion, lectures and films at The Vic are planned over the duration of the exhibition (to be advised).


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