Architecture New Zealand, July 2020
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Interiors
Through the vines: Zespri HQ
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Zespri’s new headquarters by Warren and Mahoney intertwines the language of the orchard with that of the corporate workplace.
Together but apart
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Interior solutions were used in this Christchurch campus to co-locate two, single gender schools and mitigate an age-old battle of the sexes.
Work
Old new and new old: Lake Hayes Cottage
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Jeremy Smith considers the compelling proposition of re-use in this poetic preservation of a South Island cabin by Anna-Marie Chin Architects.
Practice
A call to action
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“This is not the time for a pep-talk – we have had 30 years of those…” Abigail Hurst explores what it takes for architects to get real about the climate crisis.
Projects
Curved encampment: Bowden House
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Jon Rennie finds delight in architect Belinda George’s elegant response to her client’s childhood memories of campsite living.
Crit
COVID consciousness: Anti-social social space
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Maito Akiyama explores the ‘new normal’ – how COVID-19 has disrupted daily rituals and activities, vastly changing spatial experience.
COVID consciousness: Against the bunker
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One bizarre scheme promoted during this pandemic was to attract high-net-worthers to invest at least $50 million in NZ. Isaac Sweetapple resists this classist retreat.
COVID consciousness: Keeping it clean
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The pandemic has raised a collective anxiety about how to share public spaces – an anxiety heightened in the most intimate of settings: the public toilet. Sarah Bookman examines some solutions.
More articles
Opinion: The value of print
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Lynda Simmons: “Print media has always defined the way we store architectural as well as art histories, whether via books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers or personal letters.”
Editorial: Chris Barton on monuments
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“If architecture is to play a part in this transformation [of problematic public monuments], it’s also necessary to build anew, rather than just demolish.”
Colour Collab: Annabel Cropper
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In her time off, this architecture graduate blends graphic and object design with curiosity and architecture for the sake of large, sculptural objects.