Architecture New Zealand, May 2021
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Whare meets verandah
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In the Hihiaua Cultural Centre by Moller Architects, Mike Austin finds an example of modest, bicultural architecture, which is well-grounded in the local.
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Opinion: Twenty minutes in Tāmaki Makaurau
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As a sort of homage to the late architect and New Yorker Michael Sorkin and his book Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, columnist Karamia Müller muses on her 20-minute walking commute through the City of Sails.
Te Ao Mārama: A new order
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The second in our series: Chris Barton contemplates the new column-fins of Te Ao Mārama’s design and their connection to the nautilus shell spiral and the golden mean.
Te Ao Mārama: Exit at the hokohoko
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In the last in our series, Amanda Harkness visits Te Ao Mārama’s retail and hospitality offerings, designed by Ignite in association with Studio Pasifika, and Jack McKinney Architects, and finds evidence of artful adaptation and reuse.
Review: Kia Whakanuia te Whenua: People Place Landscape
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Pip Cheshire explores this book, which offers 40 essays that explore the relationship of Māori with land and its critical role in Māori identity.
Opinion: A planetary price to pay
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Pip Cheshire discusses the architects’ role in saving the world: “At issue, though, is whether we architects can effect any meaningful change in our bailiwick…”
Good foundations: Chief Post Office reopens
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The end of four years of City Rail Link-related closure, construction and restoration was celebrated on 6 April, with Auckland’s historic Chief Post Office (CPO) being ‘returned to the city’.
Review: Vennell House site visit
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This was an afternoon organised by a group of architects that has met regularly since 1991 as a celebration of one of Group Architects’ founder Bill Wilson’s innovative houses, the Vennell House.
Ko te whare e hanga te tangata, ko te tangata e hangaia e te whare
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The whare (whare tangata) builds the people, the people build the whare. Sarah Bookman and Seth Schanzer reflect on losing the site of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation and Kadimah School.
Following the whenua
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Mark Southcombe visits Parsonson Architects’ Long House in Wellington’s Churton Park and finds a home designed with both landform and landscape in mind.
Transcolonisation: 1990–2020
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Anthony Hoete traces 30 years of the slow road to Te Ao Māori architecture in Aotearoa and the quest to reconcile colonial traditions and European influences with a sustained interest in the indigenous project.
Volcanic dome
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Bill McKay is transported to ancient Rome as he explores the curvilinear market place of Foodstuffs’ North Island HQ by Monk Mackenzie.
Te Ao Mārama: Ripe and bursting at the seams
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Albert Refiti discusses the vitality of naming, the cross-cultural myth-histories and the moana architecture of this makeover by Jasmax, FJMT and designTRIBE at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Editorial: Chris Barton on male architects
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Please no, not Alvar Aalto. Finnish female director Virpi Suutari’s brilliant examination, Aalto, lays bare some uneasy home truths about the man lauded as an icon of modernism.