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Construction Interiors Landscape / urban design

Type

Commercial Culture / arts Religious Education Theatres Universities / colleges Alts and adds Museums Refurbishment Sport Visitor centres Adaptive re-use Libraries Retail Temporary

City

Auckland Wellington Christchurch Napier Otorohanga Palmerston North Rotorua

Year completed

2012
  • Commercial / public buildings
  • Public / civic
Just hit play

Just hit play

Hawkins Construction

A purpose-built community centre resolves a 20-year need for the youth of Glen Innes.

Commercial / public buildings
Rising again

Rising again

Higgs Construction

The 13-month rebuild of Christchurch’s historic Knox Church was a complex project.

Commercial / public buildings, Construction
Kaikoura’s treasure

Kaikoura’s treasure

Kaikoura District Council

This ‘craypot’ building is constructed entirely in timber and is the first in the world to use shear walls of CLT and LVL.

Commercial / public buildings, Construction
MTG Hawke’s Bay

MTG Hawke’s Bay

Opus

Opus Architecture has amalgamated a complex series of buildings from different eras on Napier’s 150-year-old museum site.

Commercial / public buildings
The Surf Club at Muriwai

The Surf Club at Muriwai

Jasmax

Muriwai’s new surf lifesaving clubhouse, designed by Jasmax, is set 300m back from its rapidly eroding coastline.

Commercial / public buildings
Victoria University of Wellington Campus Hub and Library

Victoria University of Wellington Campus Hub and Library

Athfield Architects, Architectus

Architectus and Athfield Architects have joined forces to design an educational complex.

Commercial / public buildings
Locked in

Locked in

Canam Construction

The new police headquarters in Rotorua merges culture and innovation, and develops the application of PRESSS technology.

Commercial / public buildings, Construction
ASB Theatre

ASB Theatre

Archoffice

Reworking of this 20-year-old theatre has received rapturous applause from those that play there.

Commercial / public buildings, Interiors
Sir Paul Reeves Building

Sir Paul Reeves Building

Jasmax

Interior visits the future of tertiary education at AUT University’s high-tech development.

Commercial / public buildings, Interiors
Westpac

Westpac

Context Architects

Context Architects’ free-range designs for Westpac on Queen Street.

Commercial / public buildings, Interiors
Christchurch  Civic Building

Christchurch Civic Building

Athfield Architects

Athfield Architects has succeeded in giving the building an open-hearted civility and a conscience.

Commercial / public buildings
Fo Guang Shan Pagoda

Fo Guang Shan Pagoda

Warren and Mahoney

Architecture as landscape is the principle that guided Warren and Mahoney’s Buddhist pagoda for a temple in Auckland.

Commercial / public buildings
Te MiruMiru

Te MiruMiru

Phil Smith Architects

Phil Smith designs a childcare centre that is literally embraced by the earth.

Commercial / public buildings
Broadcast Tower

Broadcast Tower

Copeland Associates Architects

Copeland Associates Architects’ Tower at Auckland’s North Harbour Stadium may be “just a box but it’s a box done well”.

Commercial / public buildings
Te Koputu a Te Whanga a Toi – Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre

Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre

Irving Smith Jack Architects

Irving Smith Jack Architects’ adaptive reuse of a former Briscoes retail box has given the abandoned building new life.

Commercial / public buildings
ASB Sports Centre

ASB Sports Centre

Tennent + Brown Architects

Tennent + Brown Architects’ community sports centre in Wellington deals with its harsh environs with aplomb.

Commercial / public buildings
University of Auckland: Arts 1 redevelopment

UoA: Arts 1 redevelopment

RTA Studio

A building designed by Ivan Mercep of JASMaD in the early ‘80s has been seamlessly refurbished by RTA Studio.

Commercial / public buildings
Nga Purapura, Te Wananga o Raukawa

Nga Purapura, Te Wananga o Raukawa

Tennent + Brown Architects

Tennent + Brown Architects have realised the metaphorical essence of Te Whare Tapa Wha.

Commercial / public buildings
Holy Family Catholic Church

Holy Family Catholic Church

Sarah Scott Architects

With vistas across Lake Wanaka to the Southern Alps, Sarah Scott Architects’ elegant church offers a sense of occasion.

Commercial / public buildings
Te Mirumiru

Te Mirumiru

Phil Smith Architects

Phil Smith Architects’ child-care centre in Kawakawa is an embodiment of kaitiakitanga or care for the environment.

Commercial / public buildings
The Shed by Fulton Ross Team Architects

The Shed

Fulton Ross Team Architects

The Court Theatre was one of many Christchurch institutions made homeless in the February earthquake.

Commercial / public buildings
The Cloud

The Cloud

Jasmax

Bringing people together for the Rugby World Cup, Jasmax’s organically-formed structure has already settled in the minds of New Zealanders.

Commercial / public buildings
MOTAT Aviation Display Hall

MOTAT Aviation Display Hall

Studio Pacific Architecture

Studio Pacific’s hangar-like hall acknowledges the engineered-timber heritage of many of the machines housed within.

Commercial / public buildings
Repurposed Wellington Zoo hub

Repurposed Wellington Zoo hub

Assembly Architects Limited

The disused elephant house is repurposed as a new tuckshop and event marquee.

Commercial / public buildings
Q Theatre – Auckland's civic gem

Q Theatre – Auckland’s civic gem

Cheshire Architects, Williams Ross Architects

Cheshire Architects and William Ross Architects introduce a buzz of appreciative audiences to a tight Queen Street site.

Commercial / public buildings
Auckland Art Gallery addition

Auckland Art Gallery addition

Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT) Sydney, Archimedia - Auckland

A gallery addition by FJMT and Archimedia invites graceful navigation through New Zealand’s largest art collection.

Commercial / public buildings
Church with new angles

Church with new angles

Ballara Bulman Chin – BBC Architects

This place of worship is given new angles and designs by Void Architecture.

Commercial / public buildings
Salmond Reed Architects add compact cubes to Auckland church

Salmond Reed Architects’ compact cubes

Salmond Reed Architects

Auckland’s St Matthew-in-the-city has welcomed a new chapel and kitchen designed by Salmond Reed Architects.

Commercial / public buildings
Newly transformed Rotoroa Island Visitor Centre

Rotoroa Island Visitor Centre

Pearson and Associates Architects

A Salvation Army treatment centre is transformed into a visitor centre with the help of Pearson and Associates Architects.

Commercial / public buildings
Auckland Art Gallery redevelopment

Auckland Art Gallery redevelopment

Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT) Sydney, Archimedia - Auckland

After a redevelopment involving one million man hours of work, the Auckland Art Gallery is almost complete.

Commercial / public buildings
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