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The newly-established Urban Development Institute of New Zealand (UDINZ) outlines forces in a post-COVID New Zealand that they believe will fundamentally change our urban centres.
Julia Gessler explores how sleeping pods are becoming a growing trend both on and off the ground.
In the sixth installment of our series, founder of Hong Kong’s studio AFSO André Fu, talks about blending the residential and hotel typologies.
Jan Smitheram surveys the meaning of success and shows how pluralistic notions offer a way to unpack the traditional meanings, but with a cautionary twist.
Pip Cheshire: “It’s been a rude shock that our stock in trade, the bricks and mortar realisation of our lofty dreams, is of no value when the unseen hand of disease strikes.”
Whether you are in the market for an avant-garde, open-house-style hotel or a reliable five-star chain, Melanie McDaid gives us a global forecast for hotels in 2020.
Lynda Simmons on addressing climate change: “Change proved to be simple: just stop. Just stop doing the thing that causes harm.”
Part four brings us a developer focus where we speak to John Chow, director of Stonewood Group who has a growing interest in hotels across New Zealand.
“Of the many insights COVID-19 brings, the realisation that our economy is built as a house of cards is one of the more sobering.”
As the market for retail evolves, how will the design and build of brick and mortar institutions change to meet new demands?
Ignite’s Audrey de Filippis discusses distinctive storytelling through design and the evolution of the lifestyle brand in the third part of our series.
Professor Andrew Barrie discusses design-and-build using computer numerical control (CNC) machinery in a range of projects by his students.
Interior and workplace specialist at Warren and Mahoney, Scott Compton, muses: Is this the start of the workplace as we should want it to be?
Director of interior design powerhouse Space Studio, Vee Kessner, reports on the synergy of design and procurement in a changing industry.
The local hotel industry is in a state of significant change. This six-part series explores what this might mean for the world of interiors and what might its future look like.
This Warren and Mahoney principal notices how many houses on his street have not evolved with society’s changing dynamics.
The fourth in our series brings us a spark of light in the fight against COVID-19 using desktop 3D printers and asks what decentralised manufacturing could mean for our collective future.
The third in this series by designer Raimana Jones uses dimensioned drawings and diagrams to give some perspective to pandemic-related sanitising.
In this excerpt from the second volume of the Radical Futures series, Public Knowledge, Barnaby Bennett explores the ability of physical spaces to make publics manifest.
In this series, designer Raimana Jones uses dimensioned drawings and diagrams to give some perspective (and some humour) to COVID-19-related behaviour.
Designer Raimana Jones uses dimensioned drawings and diagrams to give some perspective (and some humour) to the latest info about COVID-19.
Kiwi architect Jeremy Smith reports from the Indian Institute of Architects’ National Awards for Excellence in Architecture 2019.
Experienced architect and practice leader Richard Harris shares his thoughts on weathering economic hardship.
Senior economist Brad Olsen of Infometrics discusses how a country-wide shut down might affect the economy in the long run.
The ongoing coronavirus is an example of the close relationships between urban development and new or re-emerging infectious diseases.
This Victoria University researcher compares how practising architects, students and academics experience time and finds that it is understood variously.
In this new column, architect Audrey de Filippis discusses how the industry can approach design with social responsibility. This month she learns lessons on adaptability from Marrakesh.
Pip Cheshire notes, “…we architects have a duty, at the very least, to treat our building users with humanity, respect and civility.”
Lynda Simmons believes discussions on academia are important to remind the industry “that universities are more than technical schools producing workers for industry”.
One of the founders behind the New Zealand Architects Declare movement tells us how to move beyond declaration into action.
Architecture New Zealand editor Chris Barton muses on the creation of a ‘Museum of Head-in-the Sand Climate Change Complacency’.
Andrew Irving reports from Penang on these awards, which honoured two New Zealand projects in 2019, and ponders what success means for a heritage project.
Mary Henry reflects on three recent Jasmax tertiary education designs that respond to the evolution of the tertiary education sector.
Gina Hochstein and Bill McKay re-examine the shunned place of post-war European émigré architecture in the International Style in New Zealand’s architectural history.
Lynda Simmons speaks on solving the issue of the need for reduced-hour working weeks as a collective.
Anthony Brand meets Amin Taha, discusses the rise of ‘amnesic architecture’ at an Oxford conference, and finds several practices countering the trend.
Pip Cheshire asks about the decision-making process in creating buildings and craves more than the answers given in public discourse.
Chris Barton discusses a recent declaration by one architecture firm to strive for carbon neutrality and the lack of such aims by Kiwi firms.
Richard Goldie reflects on trends in stadium design gleaned from a recent research tour to Japan and the United States and builds his case for what makes a modern stadium work.
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