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Garvey Cup presented to David Waters of APL
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It has been my mission to bridge the gap between architects and our research and development team, ensuring that the window and door systems we create meet the evolving needs and aspirations of the architectural community.” / Previous ...
Recap: NZIA Gold Medallists
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The 2015 New Zealand Architecture Awards are almost upon us, which is an ideal time to reflect on the previous recipients of the NZIA Gold Medal in years past. Below we feature two fascinating videos ...
New issue of Houses out now
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We also look at four fine houses from +MAP Architects, John Mills Architects, Parker Warburton Team Architects, and Dorrington Architects and Associates. We talk to architect Sarah Scott about her work ...
Itinerary: Waitangi and Paihia
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As a collection of buildings, it’s as good as any we have to offer: beautifully preserved early houses, museums telling powerful and still-pertinent stories, work by William Gummer and John Scott, a lov...
Holy Family Catholic Church
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In this relationship with the local domestic it has connections with John Scott’s Futuna Chapel as well as Church of the Good Shepherd at Tekapo. There is a sense of occasion about the building, however...
2020 in Review: Top 5 people
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5. Love and basketball: Michael Vaisigano / This former professional basketball player found love in architecture after studying the works of John Scott. He now works for Ignite Architects' Wellington S...
Doing less is more
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In 2011, most architect-designed buildings were ducks. The term “duck,” which Venturi and Scott Brown coined after seeing a duck-shaped poultry shop in Long Island, USA, refers to a building that is a...
A grave concern
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Regarded as the key work of John Scott, New Zealand’s first Māori architect to achieve national recognition for the quality of his work, it is probably the most reflected upon and written about building...
Obituary: Marshall Cook
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School holiday jobs at the local architect’s office introduced him to John Scott and reinforced his enthusiasm for studying architecture. He came to the Auckland School of Architecture in 1959, took tim...
Landscape of the Year Award
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Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL) and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (TZG) have won the Landscape of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) for their design of the National Arboretum in Canberra. ...
Full bloom: Terrarium House
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The Highgate Hill home of architect John Ellway and his partner Amber Winter is an unorthodox reworking of the cottage type that from the first encounter delights and surprises. When the couple bought t...
The new romantics
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Each had been waiting for the services of more obviously romantic architects: Ian Athfield in one case and John Scott in the other. My own architectural romanticism, stemming from Mountfort’s Gothic Rev...
Character Studies: NZIA Gold Medal lecture tour
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The Institute has recognised Stevens Lawson Architects work with 25 national and 24 regional awards over the years, as well as the New Zealand Architecture Medal, the Supreme Award and the 2022 John Sco...
Twenty New Zealand projects shortlisted for World Architecture Festival 2019
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The 2019 World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced their shortlist for this year's awards, including 534 projects from 70 countries. New Zealand has once again shown up strong with 20 projects ...
2013 Eat-Drink-Design Awards open
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On the 2013 expert jury panel are: Domenic Alvaro (architect and principal of Woods Bagot), Rachel Hurst (architectural writer and critic), John Birmingham (author, journalist and food critic for Qanta...
Vale: Marshall Cook
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The world of architecture and architects surrounded Marshall, and his high school summers were spent working in the studio of John Scott, with whom he later worked after architecture school. As many wil...
2015 New Zealand Architecture Awards
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NEW ZEALAND ARCHITECTURE MEDAL: / The Blyth Peforming Arts Centre by Stevens Lawson Architects / GOLD MEDAL: / Stuart Gardyne of architecture + / SIR MILES WARREN AWARD FOR COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE: / Stranges and Glendenning Hill Build...
Futuna Lecture 2022 – Michael O’Sullivan
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We are blessed and grateful that John Walsh was able to write a review of Michael’s Auckland lecture. (Watch the Futuna Lecture at the Futuna Chapel in Wellington from Saturday 24 September below). John...
Itinerary_ City Guide: Taupō
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It was aligned with the highly geometric work that was produced by several leading New Zealand firms, including Warren and Mahoney and John Blair, before the PoMo impulse swept across the nation. Origin...
Massey University’s College of Creative Arts (CoCA)
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There has been a clearing of the decks to create the new College of Creative Arts at Massey University’s Mt Cook, Wellington Campus. Architectural designer and artist Jacob Scott says that is what he ...
Last rites for Athfield-designed church
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in this extraordinary, one-off creation.” / Associate Professor at University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning Julia Gatley says this situation echoes that of Āniwaniwa, the John Scott-...
2022 NZIA Gold Medal recipients announced
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So far the Institute has recognised Stevens Lawson Architects with 25 national and 24 regional awards, as well as the New Zealand Architecture Medal, the Supreme Award and the 2022 John Scott Award for ...
The colours of success
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Full list of winners, including videos with judges citations, below: / Nightingale Colour Master Award: / Myers Park Playspace by Isthmus Helen Kerr and Haylea Muir / Residential Exterior Award: / Quest Apartments Toowoomba by FKG Grou...
Architect Julie Stout awarded highest honour in New Zealand architecture
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In 1999, the Gold Medal was reintroduced and was awarded to John Scott for his unique talent and outstanding contribution to the practice of architecture. This ultimate accolade continues to be presente...
Te taura whakairo: the continuing tradition
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The advisors themselves became the founders of Māori modernism: Cath Brown, John Bevan Ford, Ralph Hotere, Fred Graham, Paratene Matchitt, Katarina Mataira, Cliff Whiting and Arnold Wilson, to name a fe...
Love and basketball: Michael Vaisigano
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As a Hawkes Bay native, I became interested in the works of the late John Scott, which heavily influenced my decision to then pursue my post-graduate studies in architecture. As a child growing up in a ...
Itinerary Guide: Religious Buildings
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Other addresses / Massey University Turitea Campus University Avenue, Palmerston North Frederick Burwell; John McCulloch, Architect. Early buildings include the Refectory (1930) and Main Building (1931)...
A house of two halves
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It was a conscious decision, to play off the new and the old, and one that was made by owners Ann and John Hutchinson and their architect Shaun Lockyer. The owners had spent a number of years looking fo...
Viewfinder: David Straight’s top five
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John Scott’s Ngamatea homestead, which I shot as part of my John Scott project, really crystallised how I think about his architecture specifically, but also about how good architecture can interact wit...