Architecture New Zealand, March 2021
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Master of motion: 40 years of Len Lye
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Len Lye curator at the Govett-Brewster, Paul Brobbel, looks at the acclaimed artist’s ongoing influence more than four decades after his death.
Crit
Equilibrium in indigenous design
Projects
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NZIA Resene Student Design Award winner, Ben Tunui, discusses the ways in which elements of contemporary tikanga can expand and enrich the spatial vocabulary of Māori architecture.
Practice
Dave Strachan in profile: The land, the weather and No. 8 wire
Practice
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This NZIA Gold Medal Award 2020 recipient reflects on the forces that have shaped his architectural practice.
Work
A vessel landed on another shore
Projects
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Bill McKay discusses the arrival of the vaulted Tuvalu Christian Church in Henderson, West Auckland, designed by South Pacific Architecture.
The technology of the trees
Projects
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Chris Barton finds at Scion’s Innovation Hub, Te Whare Nui o Tuteata, in Rotorua – by RTA Studio, in collaboration with Irving Smith Architects – a showcase of radically new methods in multilevel timber construction and a benchmark for achieving net-zero embodied carbon.
A place of whakapapa
Houses
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In Toto Whare, Bull O’Sullivan Architecture has created a home where generations come together to connect and bond. Jeremy Smith is captivated by its energy and generosity of spirit.
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Opinion: We do not live by bread alone
Practice
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Pip Cheshire: “…it seems a fair assumption to me: that is, that aside from making private delights, we might also do our best on main street for the body politic”.
Opinion: Our moral agenda
Practice
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In her first column for Architecture NZ, Dr Karamia Müller asks: “When we celebrate the best, is it for the best?”
Editorial: Chris Barton on rebuilding Christchurch
Practice
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Barton notes, “…the government received plenty of really good advice on what to do from a variety of people, notably the ‘Share an Idea’ urban planning community-involvement exercise … which the government mostly ignored.”
Colour Collab: Natasha Markham
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We hear from Natasha Markham, Founder of MAUD (Markham Architecture + Urban Design) and co-host of architectural podcast 76 Small Rooms, about how a recent trip to Otago has inspired her thinking about colour.