Architecture New Zealand, May 2022
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Profile
Colour Collab: Craig Moller
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At Moller Architects, Craig Moller, alongside his father Gordon, heads a team of 15. The studio’s work is wide-ranging, from the Sky Tower to chocolate factories, boat-building sheds, houses and hotels.
Columns
Must do better
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Chris Barton speaks on the subject of climate change and kindly unpacks what architects need to know in order to do better. And we must do better.
Time to dream no small dreams
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Pip Cheshire says it is time to dream big if we are to realise a bold future for housing our whānau in Aotearoa.
Across the Board
What we think is what we draw
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Karamia Müller urges us to keep the housing crisis foregrounded as an issue that requires everyone’s action.
Design for waterfront Fale Malae takes shape
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A concept design with sculptural roof has been released for the proposed Fale Malae on Wellington’s waterfront.
Andrew Barrie, elected to Royal Society
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Andrew Barrie, an architecture professor at The University of Auckland, has been elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Site 9 nears completion
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In 1997 a number of concepts for Site 9 (Lambton Harbour) on Wellington’s waterfront were submitted by architect Sir Ian Athfield and others. Now in 2022, the Athfield Architects-designed site is near completion.
Herriot Melhuish O ‘Neill celebrates 25 years
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Founded in Wellington in 1997 by architects Max Herriot and John Melhuish, in 25 years of practice, they’ve designed film studios, civic master plans and everything in between.
Obituary Lillian Chrystall
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Lillian Chrystall’s long and influential career in architecture has seen her become an important role model to many in her lifetime.
The Nest - This year’s winning Brick Bay Folly
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The 2022 Brick Bay Folly design competition was won by Master of Architecture students from the University of Auckland.
Practice
Shaping our collective Pacific future
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Three good friends formed an architecture practice in 1992. Evžen Novák reflects on how the studio has become a cooperative enterprise in which multiple design approaches have flourished.
Work
Honed to shine
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Abigail Hurst contemplates the multiple forces at play in Rolleston’s new multifunctional library, Te Ara Ātea by Warren and Mahoney.
Auckland City Mission HomeGround
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In the Auckland City Mission’s HomeGround, Stevens Lawson Architects has designed a building to support our most vulnerable with compassion and dignity.
Magical constraint
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Richard Naish contemplates what makes a good house as he visits studio/LWA’s award-winning Our House in Westmere, Auckland.
Product
Laminex: Immersive and calm
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Twenty-nine new decors have been added to the Laminex Laminate range, drawing on nature as a central point of reference. The calming and natural textural beauty of marble, terrazzo and timber decors have been designed to sit harmoniously with other materials and finishes.
Introducing Sanifos — The new range of inground pump chambers from Saniflo
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These packaged solutions are designed to service the wastewater of an entire house or commercial premises.
Crit
Review: Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide
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John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds’ have published their new walking guide to 120 of Wellington’s most interesting buildings.
Itinerary City Guide: Papaioea Palmerston North
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In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie and Julia Gatley explore the provincial architecture of Papaioea Palmerston North.
Review: Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud
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Mike Austin reviews Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud: Why so many architects pretend to be philosophers and don’t care how buildings look by Branko Mitrović.