Architecture Now

May 2025 (Issue 3)

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

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Columns

Some kind of miracle

People | Chris Barton wonders whether or not architecture can perform miracles and what it takes for an architect to become a saint.

University days

People | Pip Cheshire considers the ways in which our universities respond to the evolving expectations of the architecture community.

The centre cannot hold

People | Karamia Müller sees architecture as an ongoing negotiation between form and feeling.

Cartoon - Malcolm Walker ‘Artiteture’

People | Cartoonist and architect Malcolm Walker makes an artistic interpretation of some well-known architects within the industry.

Across the Board

Sharing Hundertwasser’s legacy

News | Annabelle Smith enjoyed an early tour of Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s Kaurinui Valley home, soon to be opened to the public.

Rotorua waterfront development plans

Projects | DCA Architects of Transformation has teamed up with Plus Architecture to design a luxury hotel for Rotorua’s lakefront, to sit alongside RCG’s Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa.

Chiselled daylight

Objects | 78 high-end apartments on the corner of Auckland’s Mayoral Drive and Wellesley Street went on sale in March.

Essay from Bangladesh

News | Architects Jeremy Smith and Murali Bhaskar go looking for water and hard-to-find buildings in one of the world’s most populous mega-cities, Dhaka.

Yellow Post

News | This year’s winning Brick Bay Folly, Yellow Post, was unveiled last weekend at the Brick Bay Sculpture Park.

Product

Material Focus: Spark Headquarters

Projects | Cachet Group was tasked with uniting the Spark team under one roof at 50 Albert Street in Auckland. Lead designer Saila Wang talks us through the 12,000m² project.

Colour Collab: Max Warren

People | In this series brought to you by Resene, Max Warren discusses his approach to designing simple, honest projects, with an engaging mix of practicality and playfulness.

Work

Student body building

Projects | Anthony Hōete investigates the skilled stacking of Hiwa, the University of Auckland’s new Recreation and Wellness Centre by Warren and Mahoney and MJMA Toronto.

Crafted from timber and bubbles

Projects | Guy Marriage visits Porirua’s new food and events space, Kai Tahi, by Chris Moller Architecture + Urbanism and MacKay Curtis.

The building as a teacher

Projects | Rebecca Kiddle explores Ngā Mokopuna at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington by Tennent Brown Architects.

Generous and dignified social housing

Projects | Jon Rennie visits Community Lane, Architectus’ recently completed development for Kāinga Ora in Auckland’s Avondale.

Crit

Itinerary: Angus, Flood & Griffiths

Review | In this Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Matt Grant sees 13 significant projects in agricultural regions by the Hamilton firm Angus, Flood & Griffiths.

Architects, not Architecture debuts in New Zealand

News | Raphaela Rose attended the inaugural Architects, not Architecture event on Wednesday 2 April at Te Ao Mārama, Auckland War Memorial Museum, finding it to be a timely call to action for architects.