Architecture Now

Awards

The Interior Awards are back. Enter now.

Awards | The quest to find the country’s top interior projects and designers has now begun. Find the key dates, project requirements and how to enter the 2025 Interior Awards here.

Winners announced: 2024 New Zealand Architecture Awards

Awards | The winners have been named in the 2024 iteration of the annual awards programme, following the jury’s visit to 48 shortlisted projects across 12 categories.

2024 Sir Miles Warren Award winner: Deloitte Centre – Te Kaha

Awards | The 2024 Sir Miles Warren Award for Commercial Architecture went to Deloitte Centre – Te Kaha by Warren and Mahoney.

2024 Ted McCoy Award for Education winner: The Pā

Awards | The 2024 Ted McCoy Award for Education winner went to The Pā by Architectus, Jasmax and designTRIBE.

2024 Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing winner: Hills Residences

Awards | The 2024 Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing went to Hills Residences by Edwards White Architects.

Columns

Architects not required

People | Editor of Architecture NZ magazine, Chris Barton, considers the current government’s call to put an end to “fancy, architecturally designed classrooms”.

On closer examination

People | Pip Cheshire contemplates the immeasurable benefits gained by the empirical study of the world around us, from geometry and acoustics to transept surveys.

Creating space

People | Karamia Müller reflects on the interplay between writing and architecture and how both create space for peace of mind during moments of overwhelming productivity.

Cartoon - Malcolm Walker ‘The modular man goes apartment shopping…’

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

Across the Board

Parliamentary precinct set to grow

Projects | Studio Pacific Architecture has released its designs for four key projects which will reshape the New Zealand Parliament’s Western Precinct.

Façade art enhances new convention centre

Projects | Two of the largest pieces of public art ever created in New Zealand — one an encompassing glass artwork, and the other a 32 metre high tiled wall — adorn the NZICC opening 2025.

Kaikōrero: Dining and discourse

People | Anthony Hōete, Mikaere Thomson and Aunty Matilda Phillips share kai and kōrero with Huia Reriti, President of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.

Re-imagining the Gordon Wilson Flats

Awards | The brief for this year’s Model Citizens competition was to re-imagine a sustainable future for the iconic Wellington flats currently in danger of being removed from the Heritage Schedule.

Remembering Rossano Fan

Practice | Michelle Wang, pays homage to an influential yet largely unrecognised Asian architect, and develops a platform to celebrate Asian Kiwi excellence in architecture.

Go figure!

People | Jeremy Smith talks travel, research and teaching with the visiting American International Architect in Residence, Marlon Blackwell.

Product

Colour Collab: Alan McCorkindale

People | A senior interior designer at Jasmax in Wellington, Alan McCorkindale is passionate about human-centred workplaces that create a positive impact on people’s daily lives.

Histories interwoven in new carpet technology

People | Looking to explore the possibilities of its new Designer Jet technology, GH Commercial approached a young architect with a reputation for craft and creativity.

Interior Spaces: Let there be laughter

Projects | Auckland-based interior design studio Material Creative stepped up to the plate in delivering this fun, new waterfront eatery within a tight time frame. Amanda Harkness takes a closer look.

Practice

Binding traditions

Practice | In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, Deidre Brown discusses her part in the ground-breaking new book Toi Te Mana.

Work

A polyphonic assemblage

Projects | Dorita Hannah tours Toi Manawa Kīngi Kāreti, King’s College’s new performing arts centre, and enjoys the dynamic tension in Patterson Associates’ design.

Farm implements

Projects | Andrew Barrie navigates the confluence of old and new comprising Waimea Nurseries’ staff and administration facilities, designed by Irving Smith Architects.

The craft of layering narrative

Projects | Trudie Bradbourne explores the layers of cultural history embodied in Te Whare Hononga, in Ngāmotu New Plymouth, by Tennent Brown Architects.

Crit

Itinerary_ Housing, not Houses 2: Alternative Models

Architecture New Zealand, November 2024

November 2024 (Issue 6)

Browse selected content