Architecture Now

March 2023 (Issue 2)

Provocative, informative and engaging discussion of the best built works and the issues and events that matter.

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Columns

An obvious and sound investment

People | Pip Cheshire believes dry, secure and affordable housing should be part of our national infrastructure, and that the crux of the housing issue lies in inherited social constructs.

Cartoon - Malcolm Walker ‘Heritage lost…’

People | Cartoonist and Architect Malcolm Walker gives us his thoughts on the issues that matter.

Across the Board

The bots are here

Review | Karamia Müller considers artificial intelligence, its relationship to creativity, and the ethics surrounding its application in the course of architectural study and/or practice.

Waikato Theatre connects to river

News | Work has begun on Kirikiriroa Hamilton’s new performing arts centre, designed by Jasmax in collaboration with British theatre design consultants Charcoalblue’s Melbourne studio.

Globe-trotting professor

People | Nelson-based architect Jeremy Smith of Irving Smith Architects has been named the 2023 John G. Williams Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in Architecture.

Dolomite Point aims for double carbon zero

Projects | The Department of Conservation’s (DOC) Dolomite Point Redevelopment Project at Punakaiki opening late October, incorporates FSC-certified timber and a green roof.

WAF: An architectural navigation to re-connect

World Architecture Festival 2022: Learnings from the global awards programme

Review | Juliana Wilson travels to WAF 2022 and observes how the global competition’s engaging format facilitates a connectedness that offers a universal reward.

Nurturing the life-force of Papatūānuku

Projects | The 2022 Te Kāhui Whaihanga Resene Student Design Awards winner, AUT MArch (Prof) student Matangireia Yates Francis describes his project Tūhononga.

Obituary: Jeremy Salmond QSO FNZIA

People | Sarosh Mulla pays tribute to Jeremy Salmond (2 January 1944–3 January 2023), one of New Zealand’s most highly respected heritage and conservation architects.

Product

Projects | Metlifecare’s latest offering, Gulf Rise, recently opened its clubhouse at the heart of the coastal village. Urban Lounge’s lead designer, Katherine Lennox, tells interior editor of Architecture New Zealand about the interior design studio’s thinking behind the communal spaces.

Colour Collab: Dajiang Tai

People | As a principal at Cheshire Architects and project architect for one of the country’s most elegant hotels, The Hotel Britomart, Dajiang Tai is making his mark in the world of interiors.

Practice

Genius loci

Practice | 2022 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Gold Medallists Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson reflect on 20 years of practice.

Possibilities for the future of the city

Practice | Mark Southcombe, Hannah Hopewell and Isaac Velasco present an edited discussion on the process and findings of two multi-scaled, urban architecture and landscape design research studios.

Work

Where mysteries live

Projects | Jasper van der Lingen is entranced by Warren and Mahoney’s Flock Hill Station in Canterbury — in a dream-like setting of silent mountains, still lakes and framed skies.

Civic good manners

Projects | John Walsh talks to Gary Todd of Gary Todd Architecture about his award-winning Ebb-Dunedin and its underlying narrative to connect the building in place and time.

He kooti hou - Te Kooti Whenua Māori, Māori Land Court

Projects | Jade Kake explores the multilayered design features of Te Kooti Whenua Māori, the new Māori Land Court in Whangārei, by GHDWoodhead creativespaces and Studio Pasifika.

Crit

Itinerary: Aotearoa New Zealand architecture books, 2022