Architecture New Zealand, January 2026
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On the move
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Pip Cheshire muses on familiarity versus the unknown, as he and his practice up sticks and move to a new Auckland site.
What the senses tell us (and what they don’t)
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Karamia Müller considers the ways in which our senses deal with dissonance and contradiction, and what this teaches us.
Across the Board
Reflections from COP30
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In November 2025, AUT’s Priscila Besen attended COP30, the annual United Nations climate summit, in the Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil. She witnessed how critical cross-disciplinary solutions are to addressing our climate crisis.
The architect as repairer: The retrofit imperative
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Rachel MacIntyre features in the first in a series of sustainability thought pieces from Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.
Protecting Canterbury’s taonga
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A cornerstone of the Ōtautahi Christchurch cultural precinct and wider Canterbury region, Canterbury Museum houses 25 per cent of Aotearoa’s taonga.
Slow Down: The 2025 Copenhagen Architecture Biennial
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President of Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Ralph Johns reflects on the importance of slowing down and thinking deeply.
Essay from Finland
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Jeremy Smith considers the Finnish liking for layering and sectioning for the light, with the underlying influence of the Aaltos evident throughout.
The man who thought language was a house
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Academic Michael Linzey presents a new view on Heidegger and the meaning of Being.
After the rain: heavy haulage
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In part four of this six-part-series, observing the disposal of disaster-compromised houses, Andrew Barrie considers the potential for relocation.
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Colour Collab: Daniel Kempka
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In this instalment of the Colour Collab series brought to you by Resene, Warren and Mahoney Senior Associate Daniel Kempka discusses designing deeply empathic spaces.
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Elegant span
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Andrew Barrie visits the vast, luminous Hangar 4, the Six Green Star certified centrepiece of Air New Zealand’s maintenance base at Auckland Airport by Studio Pacific Architecture.
An act of restoration
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Andrea Bell visits ACC’s new flagship building in Ōtepoti Dunedin, designed by Warren and Mahoney in collaboration with Aukaha, and finds a weaving together of cultural narratives, built heritage and sustainability.
Courting excellence
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At a house on the Coromandel Peninsula, by Davor Popadich Architects, John Walsh encounters a realisation of Vitruvian principles in the winner of the Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing at the 2025 Architecture Awards.
Crit
Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street
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Robin Skinner reviews Elizabeth Cox’s impressive new book, which documents the c. 1900 edition of Thomas Ward’s map with accompanying commentary.
Itinerary: Kiwi high Tech
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In this Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie visits 14 innovative High Tech projects from across New Zealand.
Urban Art Village 2025: Building a City of Ideas
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Gina Hochstein and Yusef Patel experienced the irrepressible Matt Liggin’s Urban Art Village, which ran 30-31 October 2025 in Takutai Square in Britomart.
Ignite. Adapting In the Age of AI: A review and kōrero with Dr Deidre Brown
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Elisapeta Heta attended the first event in the University of Auckland’s speaker series Ignite. Adapting in the Age of AI, this panel discussed cultural Intellectual Property and the impacts of AI on the workforce.
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Turning pain into purpose
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Christchurch-based Sheppard & Rout Architects and Meadow Landscape Architecture have collaborated to design a calm, carefully crafted ‘pod’ to be placed in schools and community settings throughout the country.