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Kiwi projects victorious at 2016 WAF

News | Designed by Monk McKenzie Architects and LandLab, #LightpathAKL has already picked up several national awards. The Canada Street Bridge, part of the LightPath cycleway, also won a prestigious American a...

New Zealand houses a hit at WAF

News | Taking out the Future, Houses category was Queenstown House by Monk Mackenzie Architects. The six-bedroom house is designed to sit securely in the landscape, while at the same time bridging across a sea...

World Architecture Festival 2017

Review | Queenstown House by Auckland-based Monk Mackenzie took out the the House – Future Projects category. This elongated six-bedroomed house design hugs the landscape, creating a bridge across a seasonal flo...

Te Ara I Whiti: Auckland’s cycleway open

News | The Nelson Street cycleway was designed by Monk Mackenzie Architects in collaboration with LandLAB, and is one of the first of the network of bikepaths being delivered in partnership by the New Zealand ...

New issue of Houses out now

News | Architects Barry Condon, Carolyn Smith, Brendon Monk and Frans Kamermans have designed holiday houses that provide the occupants with fully functional spaces to be enjoyed all year round. We also take a...

Seven New Zealand projects shortlisted at 2013 World Architecture Festival

News | A giraffe house in New Zealand, a monastery in Taiwan, a treehouse in the USA and a research station in Antarctica are among the 302 projects that have been shortlisted for the World Architecture Fest...

Finalists revealed – 2022 Interior Awards

News | Twenty-seven projects from across Aotearoa, along with two overseas projects, have been shortlisted for this year’s Interior Awards, amongst them tranquil, engaging workplaces, heritage renovations, v...

World Festival of Interiors - INSIDE shortlist announced

News | This year three New Zealand projects from Monk MacKenzie, Irving Smith Architects and FJMT Studio in association with DesignTRIBE and Jasmax made the list. International design firms to feature in this ...

Pulling an all-nighter: 24 Hour Design Challenge

News | The jury – which includes Karamia Muller, Nat Cheshire, Hamish Monk and Richard Naish along with Architecture New Zealand editor Justine Harvey – will then decide the top three designs. The finalists an...

Finalists revealed: 2019 Interior Awards

News | See the full shortlist below: / Civic / Tūranga by Architectus and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects / Nelson School of Music by Irving Smith Architects / Freemans Bay School by RTA Studio / Westgate Library and Multi-Purpose Facility ...

Assessing risks: New Zealand architecture industry in 2024

Practice | Sebastian Hamilton, Principal at Monk Mackenzie, also emphasised the industry’s susceptibility to potential risks, noting a slowdown in mid-tier developments, particularly in the townhouse range. “The c...

2016 New Zealand Architecture Awards shortlist

News | COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE CATEGORY: / APL Factory, Hamilton by Jasmax / Aro Ha Wellness Retreat, Glenorchy by Tennent+Brown Architects / Duncan Cotterill Plaza (2014), Christchurch by MAP / Cambridge Terrace/Lane Neave, Christchurch by J...

Interior Awards 2017: Judges and sponsors announced

News | Dean Mackenzie Along with Hamish Monk, Dean is a director with Monk Mackenzie Architects. He has worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York. He has si...

The evolution of Matter

Practice | “I WENT TO THIS TEMPLE AND ALL THESE MONKS WERE CHANTING AND I DIDN’T FEEL ANYTHING. JOHN’S BEEN USING THESE HAIR PRODUCTS AND I DON’T KNOW WHO I MARRIED ANY MORE.”12 / Through prioritising the explorat...

University of Auckland: University Hall

Projects | Student hostels were once a first-year rite of passage and the place to go until you were ready for flatting. With the increase in numbers of international students, spaces are very much in demand and...

Auckland Architecture Awards 2023: Shortlist revealed

Awards | See below for images of the shortlisted projects, which are: / Housing Ōhinerau House by Bossley Architects Kauri by Bull O'Sullivan Architecture Kingfisher by Dorrington Atcheson Architects Ridge Retreat by Francis Group Architects Po...

Finalists revealed – 2023 Interior Awards

Awards | Twenty-nine projects from throughout Aotearoa have been shortlisted for this year’s Interior Awards. Amongst them, we’re seeing brave, sweeping aesthetics, bold use of colour, a nod to the charm of by...

2023 New Zealand Architecture Awards: Shortlist announced

Awards | Winners of the New Zealand Architecture Awards, which are sponsored by Resene and APL, will be announced at an event on Thursday 16 November in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.  / The shortlist: / Commercial Architecture / 8 Willis Stre...

Volcanic dome

Projects | Eclipse Architecture designed the gigantic distribution shed but Monk Mackenzie won the pitch for the building in front, as well as the conceptual layout of the complex. I couldn’t believe that the rend...

World Architecture Festival 2016

Review | Dean Mackenzie and Hamish Monk of Monk Mackenzie and Henry Crothers of LandLAB presented Auckland’s famous pink LightPath, which won Transport – Completed Projects category at the World Architecture Fes...

On the Rise: Rachel Wegrzyn

People | AC: What are you looking forward to next in your career? / RW: I’m thrilled to have started at Monk Mackenzie. I’ve admired their work for years, and their poetic and modern approach to architecture. Fo...

Crafting cosy spaces

People | That could be the very small residential Carlton Cloister project to the Double Monk shoe store, which is two brothers creating a bespoke shoe shop. That’s the main driver for myself to get into private...

Austere elegance: Life House

Projects | The work of British architect John Pawson has become synonymous with a specific kind of modern luxury – that of the monastic. His work is refined, often austere and unashamedly monotone. Through the c...

Determining the built environment

Review | Our primary objective in writing this piece is to understand how it is that architects are often divorced from public work. We want to try to understand how process selection governs outcome and how t...

AAA Visionary Architecture Awards 2015: winners

News | The judging panel for 2015 was made up of Rewi Thompson (Māori architect and design tutor at University of Auckland), Dean Mackenzie (partner at Monk Mackenzie Architects), Lynda Simmons (registered Arc...

NZIA Auckland Region awards announced

News | Resolution Footbridge Warren and Mahoney Architects Ltd / The Surf Club at Muriwai Jasmax Limited / Giraffe House Glamuzina Paterson Architects Ltd and Hamish Monk Architecture / Small Project Architect...

Book review: The Drama of Space

Review | Megson’s lectures ran through the full historical range of approaches, from Palladio’s A-B-A rhythms to Le Corbusier’s Modulor proportion system to the Dutch monk Hans van der Laan’s mid-20th-century th...

Viewfinder: Top five with Thomas Seear-Budd

Projects | We stayed overnight each in our own monk’s quarters. The monastery is still operational and welcomes guests from all over the world to experience not only the architecture but the monastic way of life. ...

2018 Festival of Architecture: Auckland edition

News | Hamish Monk and Dean Mackenzie of Monk Mackenzie are seeking a wide horizon for expression and formal innovation, linking their business to big thinking. Not aiming to grow timidly but to engage in vari...

Singing for supper

Review | There were plenty of smaller projects: IS’s Mapua Park Structures, Cheshire’s Rore Kahu and Monk Mackenzie’s Canada Street Bridge, for example. They are rich in terms of site and the underlying elements...