Architecture New Zealand, May 2020
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Work
Going beyond the brief
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Athfield Architects’ Waitohi Johnsonville Library and Community Hub proves to prioritise placemaking and connections to the urban context.
Collaborative campus
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Jasmax’s new Western Springs College and Ngā Puna o Waiōrea Campus compiles spatially exciting buildings at a dramatic scale, but where all the ‘stuff’ has gone?
Garden party: Metlifecare Gulf Rise
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Due to COVID-19, no site visits were allowed at this innovative retirement living facility at the time of writing. But Chris Barton perseveres and is captivated by the space.
Crit
Combobulation Station: Uncanny Architecture for Uncommon Objects
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Take a deeper look at this winning project from this year’s Visionary Architecture Awards, which tackles the feelings of discombobulation of current climate conversations.
Review: Rottenomics: The Story of New Zealand’s Leaky Buildings Disaster
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John Sutherland considers Peter Dyer’s comprehensive investigation into one of the country’s most costly human-made disasters – New Zealand’s leaky building syndrome.
Practice
Conducting architecture in a digital web
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Context Architects explore new technologies to communicate design and reflect on today’s changing client expectations and the need to be transparent and collaborate in real-time.
Drawing on ideas: It’s all about the drawing
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Craig Moller reflects on his architectural drawing practice and finds a focus on how he draws, rather than what or why he draws.
Projects
Of lollies and eloquent eyebrows
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B405, the Jasmax-designed UoA Faculty of Engineering mothership, is a building of two halves. Chris Barton comes to terms with it: inside and out.
More articles
Opinion: Environmental emergencies
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Lynda Simmons on addressing climate change: “Change proved to be simple: just stop. Just stop doing the thing that causes harm.”
Opinion: Uncertain times
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Pip Cheshire: “It’s been a rude shock that our stock in trade, the bricks and mortar realisation of our lofty dreams, is of no value when the unseen hand of disease strikes.”
Editorial: Chris Barton on the way forward
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“Of the many insights COVID-19 brings, the realisation that our economy is built as a house of cards is one of the more sobering.”