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Michelle Wang, pays homage to an influential yet largely unrecognised Asian architect, and develops a platform to celebrate Asian Kiwi excellence in architecture.
In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, Deidre Brown discusses her part in the ground-breaking new book Toi Te Mana.
In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, Sean Flanagan examines the reasons why hand-drawing makes an efficient and rich contribution to design.
Architect Matt Grant investigates the history of Henry Kulka’s work in Hamilton City and the design legacy they hold as world-class examples of the teachings of Adolf Loos.
In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, Ralph Johns reflects on ten years of architecture and the ongoing evolution of the Isthmus studio.
MAD Studio, a collaboration between Matt Liggins Studio and Angus Muir Design, talk about its installation for Splore 2024, an object dedicated to colour theory.
Architecture Workshop’s Christopher Kelly examines Vienna’s ‘affordability of everyday life’ and recommends an amalgam of solutions to New Zealand’s housing crisis.
John Walsh visits Te Rangihīroa, the University of Otago’s new hall of residence designed by Jasmax.
This year’s Te Kāhui Whaihanga Gold Medallist, Deidre Brown, discusses her journey through architecture as she follows the evolution of Māori and Pacific design.
A group of leading architects has cautioned that rising costs, builder insolvency and regulatory compliance challenges are the primary hurdles studios will face in 2024.
HMOA’s founding directors consider the evolution of the practice over the past 26 years and the importance of relationships, resilience and respect.
Ewan Brown discusses the Living Pā at Victoria University of Wellington, the latest in a list of Tennent Brown projects implementing the Living Building Challenge.
Matter Architects’ founder Jonathan Smith looks back at 10 years of the practice and considers the importance of magic, making a moment and movie quotes.
Jasper van der Lingen investigates how extensive community consultation shaped the carefully layered communal forms of Christchurch’s new Te Aratai College by Architectus.
A new podcast series from the NUWAO project, features AUT-led research into nature-based solutions to climate change, rooted in indigenous knowledges.
Warren and Mahoney has teamed up with Special Studio to design and deliver 70 bespoke 3D-printed e-waste deposit bins for One NZ (formerly Vodafone).
For World Architecture Day the NZIA reached out to two architects and an academic for their take on the event’s 2023 theme: Architecture for Resilient Communities.
Sarosh Mulla explores the humour in Pac Studio’s practice both to provoke and to uncover thinking about the underlying complexities of architecture while also making it accessible and fun.
Editor of ArchitectureNow Jacinda Rogers, talks to Bob Burnett about his passion for better housing in New Zealand and how this led him to the Superhome Movement.
Sheppard & Rout’s directors Jasper van der Lingen, Tim Dagg, Steven Orr, Matt Gutsell and Joff Kennedy reflect on the practice’s enduring vision.
This new free-to-download publication is a result of a workshop facilitated by W+M that aimed to gather ideas and concepts to revitalise and progress our largest city.
Richard Francis-Jones considers the ways in which the industry can undo colonial architecture’s symbols and institutional instruments of oppression.
Artificial lighting may have more influence on fauna than we often consider, says Boffa Miskell ecologist Jessica Schofield. Read on for what to consider when selecting lighting.
In this second part of the photo series, the building is now habitable and the first close-up images of the 19th-century cathedral’s interior, post-quakes, are possible.
Warren and Mahoney’s Michael Leng and Te Ari Prendergast consider the advent of AI and how its use calls for a measured, considered response.
Mark Southcombe, Hannah Hopewell and Isaac Velasco present an edited discussion on the process and findings of two multi-scaled, urban architecture and landscape design research studios.
Warren and Mahoney’s Michael Leng and Te Ari Prendergast consider the advent of AI and whether to adjust, adapt or adopt.
2022 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Gold Medallists Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson reflect on 20 years of practice.
The beauty is in the detail – Maggie Carroll and Jessica Barter discuss their journey since launching Bureaux.
Pete Bossley tours Finnish architecture and design, using drawing as thinking to uncover its power.
TOA Architects’ founder Nicholas Dalton has a vision that, by 2040, all its architects will be fluent in te reo Māori and other firms will overhaul their policies to honour te Tiriti.
Auckland architecture practice partners with the Keystone Trust to support tertiary students in the property sector
An artist and an architect return to Europe – Pete Bossley visits some starchitect buildings in Europe.
Han Chen, director of Shape Architects shares his learnings from wearing both an architect’s, and a developer’s hat, and how he and his team work to reconcile the two.
Ten architectural practitioners at Patterson Associates talk about their work and the themes that draw them together.
Matthew Le Grice, Digital Design Lead at Warren and Mahoney (formerly at Zaha Hadid), predicts an exciting future in a sector moving in leaps and bounds.
Very few architecture practices can claim more than 100 years in business and can trace their roots to one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed architects.
Boffa Miskell partners Rachel de Lambert and Michael Hawes reflect on the ways in which the multi-disciplinary design practice enables people and nature to connect.
Architecture New Zealand editor Chris Barton on the ensuing debacle recently imposed housing intensification regulations will unleash on residential areas in Auckland city.
Planted green walls and rooftops, tree-lined roadsides, urban ngahere (forests) and wetlands are critical elements in our efforts to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.