Architecture New Zealand, September 2023
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Impervious vs absorbent
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Chris Barton looks at the need for ‘sponge city’ and water-sensitive urban design to make our cities safe.
Colour Collab: Toni Brandso
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In this series brought to you by Resene, Material Creative co-founder Toni Brandso discusses her mission to challenge the status quo and disrupt the norm.
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Cartoon - Malcolm Walker ‘AI…’
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Cartoonist and Architect Malcolm Walker gives us his thoughts on the issues that matter.
The good, the bad and the ugly
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Pip Cheshire advocates for greater diversity and inclusivity in the design and planning of architecture in New Zealand’s cities.
What water?
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Karamia Müller considers the politics of the built realm and uses a clever analogy asking “How’s the water?” to address the impact of social conditioning on how we view the housing crisis.
Across the Board
2023 World Architecture Festival shortlist announced
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Thirteen Kiwi practices have been shortlisted for the 2023 WAF Awards, an international awards programme that attracts entries from leading architects from across the globe.
Standing tall at Hayman Park
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Hayman Park Stage 2 opens in Auckland’s Manukau. The playground designed by Wraight Athfield Landscape + Architecture includes the tallest play tower in Aotearoa.
Obituary: Nigel Cook
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Hera Cook pays tribute to her father, the highly creative and innovative New Zealand architect and activist who pioneered the wind-rain house (11 February 1929–11 June 2023).
Five Folly finalists selected for Brick Bay
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Amanda Harkness looks at the concepts proposed by this year’s Brick Bay Folly finalists and finds both creative composition and intrinsic decomposition.
Voicing a vision for Uptown
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Bill McKay visits the Uptown Futures Festival on Auckland’s city fringe, where student-developed designs look to drive the evolution of the precinct.
Projects
Material Focus: Picnicka
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One of Tauranga’s newest dining destinations recreates the experience of a European picnic. We talk to designer Summer Bishop of CTRL Space about the project.
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Interior Spaces: All about that curve
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Katie Scott of Auckland-based interior design studio Sticks+Stones loves a curve and, here, in this bungalow kitchen renovation, she uses them to beautiful effect. Amanda Harkness takes a closer look.
Practice
Silly analogies from a serious practice
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Sarosh Mulla explores the humour in Pac Studio’s practice both to provoke and to uncover thinking about the underlying complexities of architecture while also making it accessible and fun.
Work
Deeply tau: Pā Reo
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Derek Kawiti surveys Pā Reo, the latest additions to Te Wānanga o Raukawa campus in Ōtaki by Tennent Brown Architects, and the dedicated process under way to achieve Living Building Challenge certification.
Suiting up: Marlborough Library and Art Gallery
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Jeremy Smith investigates a new fashion statement in Blenheim’s combined library and art gallery, Te Kahu o Waipuna by Warren and Mahoney.
Listening to the building
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Bill McKay traverses the histories of the Hayman and Kronfeld buildings in downtown Auckland’s Britomart precinct and their elegant adaptive re-use by Peddlethorp.
Crit
Itinerary: PoMo in New Zealand
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In this month’s itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie and Julia Gatley call attention to 14 Postmodern buildings in New Zealand.
Book review: Rewi
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Deidre Brown reviews Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake’s latest collaboration Rewi, detailing Rewi Thompson’s contribution to architecture.