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This small floor plan, and the owner’s design nous, proves that you don’t have to sacrifice style when building modestly.
Greg McKeown scrutinises Ports of Auckland’s plan to extend Bledisloe wharf by over 250m into the Waitemata harbour.
Krista Ferguson - Director of Homestar looks at ways to improve energy use in your house.
PrefabNZ exhibits a showcase of high-quality, sustainable, permanent, pre-made homes at Canterbury Agricultural Park.
A book celebrating lost buildings and streetscapes.
Simon Devitt puts down his camera to wax lyrical about the refurbishment of St Matthew-in-the-City.
Cecil Balmond’s creation for the new Targetti and Louis Poulsen showroom is based on fractal geometries.
Photographer Simon Devitt joins forces with writer Andrea Stevens to create a stunning book, Summer Houses.
How do disaster recovery programmes stack up in other countries?
The best new book about lights and lamps, residential interiors with personality and a grapple with postmodernism.
A wealth of landscape- and architecture-related reading material to get you over the holiday hump.
What is, or could be, the role of landscape architects in earthquake recovery?
Structuring earthquake recovery in Christchurch East.
Christchurch’s new retail spaces on Cashel Street are a colourful construction of refitted shipping containers.
Ian Athfield chronicles the journey taken since being appointed Architectural Ambassador for post-earthquake Christchurch.
As NZ begins one of the biggest rebuilding projects in its history, demand for skilled tradespeople will increase.
What a difference nine months makes. Two photographs from Christchurch that pretty much say it all.
Internationally, it’s a wrap on architectural awards season. Here’s a compilation of a few of our favourite interiors.
A history of all things New Zealand – film, glass and wine – along with some French style for a bit of variety.
Alastair Mckenzie reviews Shigeru Ban’s recent lecture at the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning.
A four-bedroom Habitat for Humanity house for a Hawke’s Bay family has been constructed from the ground up.
Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity is busy engaging students with the new possibilities for earthquake recovery.
Plans for the rebuilding of Christchurch are starting to emerge. Jessica Halliday considers the responses so far.
The private sculpture garden on the Gibbs’ Farm was opened in a charity event for Architecture Week.
A short history of gender in New Zealand architecture.
Renee Davies reviews a new book of green roof and wall case studies.
Landscape Architecture NZ talks with Ludo Campbell-Reid and Nazla Carmine about Auckland’s shared spaces.
The living roof phenomenon and its relevance to New Zealand.
Philip Smith looks at some of the marks on the land left by historic New Zealand wars.
Process, points of law and observations about ‘Pigeon Bay’ factors in defining ‘landscape’.
Man O’War Station goes to the High Court to appeal an Environment Court decision that refused it permission to build.
Brendon Reid talks building technology with Interior magazine.
David Irwin’s reflections on Wynyard Quarter on opening morning.
Plant guide. Philip Smith investigates the regional variations of a New Zealand botanical staple – the kowhai.
Light, bright and airy, Copenhagen style.
Graham McKerracher looks at ways of improving energy use in the bathroom and laundry.
New Zealand business leaders and government need to develop more efficient and flexible terms for commercial leases.
Edited by Jonathan Olivares of Phaidon, this book features designs by some classic designers.