Architecture New Zealand, March 2025
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Brutal reckonings
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Chris Barton contemplates why the recently released film The Brutalist has caused such a furore within the architectural community.
Columns
On death and the sublime
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Pip Cheshire considers the challenges associated with judging a building, including assessing its ‘smell’.
The politics of the architect’s narrative
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Opinion: Karamia Müller believes stories about architecture need to examine power, displacement and capital.
Across the Board
Towards a cultural revival
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The Monk Mackenzie-designed Te Henga Kāinga Whakahirahira marae and papakāinga represents a significant milestone in the cultural revival of iwi, Te Kawerau ā Maki.
Challenging gender norms in architecture
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Josh Sanoria, winner of the 2024 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Resene Student Design Awards, explains his escapist, explorative thesis, Queeriosities of Space.
Essay from Southern Africa
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Jeremy Smith reports from South Africa, where he and architect Peter Rich buckled up and set off together to explore housing, city-planning and local architectural education.
Product
Material Focus: Harrows Experience Centre
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Designwell creative director Alexander Wastney describes the careful balancing act of designing a space that is part showroom, part workplace and part hospitality venue.
Colour Collab: Lorraine O’Rourke
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In this series brought to you by Resene, Lorraine O’Rourke showcases her talent for storytelling, art and honest materiality.
Practice
Joining forces for good
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In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, the 2024 Gold Medal recipients Hugh Tennent and Ewan Brown reflect on the their collaborative architectural practice.
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Dancing around the dolines
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Matthew Webby visits the spectacular Punangairi, the new visitor centre in Paparoa National Park on the northern West Coast of the South Island by Sheppard & Rout.
Work
A crack in the façade
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Mark Southcombe finds Warren and Mahoney’s addition to Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganuito be a beautiful space for dialogue, reflecting a stunning combination of old and new.
Living in the laboratory
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Carolyn Hill visits the Hills Residences on the banks of the Waikato River and finds both beauty and tenacity in the Edwards White Architects adaptive reuse project.
Grappling with the grid
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Chris Barton visits the Catalina Bay Apartments in Hobsonville Point by Architectus and finds meticulous planning, embracing and disrupting the grid.
Crit
Itinerary City Guide: Levin
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In this Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie tours 14 resilient buildings in Levin.
Book review: The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education
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Lynda Simmons reviews The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education, a book aimed at students, educators and practitioners insistent on change.
Exhibition: Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators
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Elisapeta Heta reviews Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators, a powerful reclamation of space.