Chris Barton

Structural timber in the small city

Projects | Chris Barton explores Irving Smith Architects’ innovative use of timber in a three-tenancy commercial building for Tinline Property in Whakatū Nelson.

A tribute to Pip Cheshire: Chris Barton

People | Chris Barton, Editor of Architecture NZ pays tribute to his friend and colleague.

There be monsters

People | Chris Barton on the arrival of some very big buildings in Christchurch.

Burn the house down

People | Editor of Architecture NZ Chris Barton discusses a bonkers idea about ownership of New Zealand’s social housing assets.

Slow learners

People | Editor of Architecture NZ, Chris Barton considers New Zealand’s current climate adaptation legislation framework inefficient. 

Cooked

People | Architecture NZ editor Chris Barton asks why we are designing houses that overheat.

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.

Grappling with the grid

Projects | Chris Barton visits the Catalina Bay Apartments in Hobsonville Point by Architectus and finds meticulous planning, embracing and disrupting the grid.

Brutal reckonings

People | Chris Barton contemplates why the recently released film The Brutalist has caused such a furore within the architectural community.

Storytime

People | Chris Barton considers some of the winning projects at last year’s World Architecture Festival and questions the thinking behind the much-quoted ‘Bilbao effect’.