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Joining forces for good

Joining forces for good

26 Mar 2025, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, the 2024 Gold Medal recipients Hugh Tennent and Ewan Brown reflect on the their collaborative architectural practice.

Radical responsibility

Radical responsibility

12 Feb 2025, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, ahha, a socially responsible architecture practice, discusses its aims and aspirations.

Artificially clever

Artificially clever

22 Jan 2025, Anthony Brand

Anthony Brand encourages a group of third-year architectural students to seek out AI tools that might help them design more efficiently, effectively and innovatively.

Remembering Rossano Fan

Remembering Rossano Fan

12 Dec 2024, Michelle Wang

Michelle Wang, pays homage to an influential yet largely unrecognised Asian architect, and develops a platform to celebrate Asian Kiwi excellence in architecture.

Binding traditions

Binding traditions

11 Dec 2024, Deidre Brown

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.

Drawn out

Drawn out

12 Sep 2024, Sean Flanagan

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.

A Modernist’s legacy in the Waikato: Henry Kulka

A Modernist’s legacy in the Waikato: Henry Kulka

27 Aug 2024, Matthew Grant

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.

Connecting land, people and culture

Connecting land, people and culture

14 Aug 2024, Ralph Johns

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.

Behind the Object: Colour Theory

Behind the Object: Colour Theory

1 Jul 2024, Jacinda Rogers

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.

‘Oh Vienna’ Where do we live tomorrow?

‘Oh Vienna’ Where do we live tomorrow?

24 Apr 2024, Christopher Kelly

Architecture Workshop’s Christopher Kelly examines Vienna’s ‘affordability of everyday life’ and recommends an amalgam of solutions to New Zealand’s housing crisis.

Culture and collegiality

Culture and collegiality

17 Apr 2024, John Walsh

John Walsh visits Te Rangihīroa, the University of Otago’s new hall of residence designed by Jasmax.

Te taura whakairo: the continuing tradition

Te taura whakairo: the continuing tradition

20 Mar 2024, Deidre Brown

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.

Assessing risks: New Zealand architecture industry in 2024

Assessing risks: New Zealand architecture industry in 2024

13 Mar 2024, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

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.

Simple and pure

Simple and pure

28 Feb 2024, HMOA

HMOA’s founding directors consider the evolution of the practice over the past 26 years and the importance of relationships, resilience and respect.

Bringing the change

Bringing the change

14 Feb 2024, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

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.

The evolution of Matter

The evolution of Matter

6 Dec 2023, Jonathan Smith

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.

Communities of learning

Communities of learning

29 Nov 2023, Jasper van der Lingen

Jasper van der Lingen investigates how extensive community consultation shaped the carefully layered communal forms of Christchurch’s new Te Aratai College by Architectus.

Indigenous knowledge to tackle climate change

Indigenous knowledge to tackle climate change

9 Nov 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

A new podcast series from the NUWAO project, features AUT-led research into nature-based solutions to climate change, rooted in indigenous knowledges.

Creating a ‘recycling unit’ from ‘recycled waste’

Creating a ‘recycling unit’ from ‘recycled waste’

3 Nov 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

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).

Architecture for Resilient Communities in Aotearoa

Architecture for Resilient Communities in Aotearoa

13 Oct 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

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.

Silly analogies from a serious practice

Silly analogies from a serious practice

11 Oct 2023, Sarosh Mulla

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.

The Superhome Movement: Q&A with Bob Burnett

The Superhome Movement: Q&A with Bob Burnett

29 Aug 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

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.

Form follows narrative

Form follows narrative

2 Aug 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

Sheppard & Rout’s directors Jasper van der Lingen, Tim Dagg, Steven Orr, Matt Gutsell and Joff Kennedy reflect on the practice’s enduring vision.

15 industry leaders workshop ideas to revitalise Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

A City of Soul: Ideas to revitalise Auckland

3 Jul 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

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.

Design for decolonisation

Design for decolonisation

24 May 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

Richard Francis-Jones considers the ways in which the industry can undo colonial architecture’s symbols and institutional instruments of oppression.

Ecologist’s perspective: Lighting our environment

Ecologist’s perspective: Lighting our environment

24 Apr 2023, Jessica Schofield

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.

Exclusive series: Inside Christ Church Cathedral, Part 2

Exclusive series: Inside Christ Church Cathedral, Part 2

21 Apr 2023, Tim Holmes

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.

Ethics, a deeper shade of AI

Ethics, a deeper shade of AI

19 Apr 2023, Michael Leng, Te Ari Prendergast

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.

Possibilities for the future of the city

Possibilities for the future of the city

28 Mar 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

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.

Fifty shades of AI

Fifty shades of AI

22 Mar 2023, Michael Leng, Te Ari Prendergast

Warren and Mahoney’s Michael Leng and Te Ari Prendergast consider the advent of AI and whether to adjust, adapt or adopt.

Genius loci

Genius loci

15 Mar 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

2022 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Gold Medallists Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson reflect on 20 years of practice.

The beauty is in the detail

The beauty is in the detail

8 Mar 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

The beauty is in the detail – Maggie Carroll and Jessica Barter discuss their journey since launching Bureaux.

Revisiting the Aaltos

Revisiting the Aaltos

1 Mar 2023, Pete Bossley

Pete Bossley tours Finnish architecture and design, using drawing as thinking to uncover its power.

Haumi ē! Hui ē! Tāiki ē! Becoming great ancestors

Haumi ē! Hui ē! Tāiki ē! Becoming great ancestors

15 Feb 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

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.

Ashton Mitchell supports students of architecture at the University of Auckland

Ashton Mitchell supports students of architecture at the University of Auckland

6 Feb 2023, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

Auckland architecture practice partners with the Keystone Trust to support tertiary students in the property sector

An artist and an architect return to Europe

An artist and an architect return to Europe

19 Dec 2022, Pete Bossley

An artist and an architect return to Europe – Pete Bossley visits some starchitect buildings in Europe.

The Shape of mid-density to come

The Shape of mid-density to come

6 Dec 2022, Jacinda Rogers

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.

Pattersons

Pattersons

28 Sep 2022, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

Ten architectural practitioners at Patterson Associates talk about their work and the themes that draw them together.

Considering our digital design future

Future of design: Considering our digital design future

24 Aug 2022, Matthew Le Grice

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.

From Trengrove to Totem

From Trengrove to Totem

24 Aug 2022, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

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.

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