Guy Marriage

Guy Marriage is a senior lecturer in building science at the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a registered architect and his current research projects investigate the practical nature of how to create architecture via building, focusing on good construction methodologies, as well as an ongoing interest in creating sustainable weathertight buildings.

Snakeskin chic

Projects | Guy Marriage highlights the unique design of BNZ Place in Wellington, from its bone-like verandah to its slender structural diagrid and rooftop oculus.

Resonating to different frequencies

Projects | Guy Marriage considers the Herculean task undertaken by Architecture + in the design and restoration of five buildings on Wellington’s busiest intersection at 8 Willis Street.

Welcome to the chocolate fish

Projects | Guy Marriage negotiates the black diagrid structure and sinuous, muscular swoops of Tākina’s confectionary-coloured façade and finds plenty of attraction in Wellington’s new convention centre by Studio Pacific Architecture.

Guy Marriage on building for climate change

People | The houses that survived the Esk floods this time also survived the Esk floods last time, for the same reasons — siting the house on a rise, not on the valley floor, Guy Marriage writes.

Duplex with a difference

Projects | Guy Marriage is impressed by the joy of Patchwork Architecture’s three-dimensional, Escher-like cliff-side edifice, Party Wall, in Wellington’s Kelburn.

Jump with a twist

Projects | Guy Marriage investigates the flamboyant façade and innovative climbing formwork of The Pacifica, Auckland’s towering 56-floor apartment building by Plus Architecture.

Houses Revisited: Retro slick

Projects | Working with design-literate clients, and his builder brother, Michael Melville has fused seventies suburban optimism and contemporary experimentation, first published in 2006.

Poipoia te kākano kia puawai

Projects | Guy Marriage explores the ways in which Tennent Brown Architects has helped nurture the Ngā Purapura kākano at Ōtaki to create Te Ara a Tāwhaki.

Customhouse chameleon: XXCQ tower

Projects | This work sets a new standard on Wellington’s shaky waterfront ground. Guy Marriage dissects the building’s DNA.

Possibilities of robotic fabrication

Practice | Lauren Vasey’s work at a digital fabrication unit in Stuttgart researches the potential of architecture and robotics.

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