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Itinerary: Aotearoa New Zealand architecture books, 2022

Review | Architecture at Home and Rooms, by Jane Ussher and John Walsh, were included among the best coffee-table books, while Simon Devitt, Luke Scott and Andrea Stevens’ Cape to Bluff and Elizabeth Cox’s Makin...

Whare meets verandah

Projects | It is very appropriate that it was the winner of the John Scott Award for Public Architecture. Scott claimed the shed as a source for New Zealand architecture. 1 Erik Schwimmer (Ed.), The Māori People i...

Model Citizens 2022 lights up Auckland Architecture Week

Review | / A Team: Architectus The 'A Team' created a light that was inspired by John Scott's Futuna Chapel. The colours were reminiscent of the chapel's stained glass windows and the dynamic, asymmetrical for...

Winners revealed: 2016 Australian National Architecture Awards

News | The Australian Institute of Architects has honoured 40 projects at the 2016 National Architecture Awards. In total the jury presented 32 awards and 12 commendations across 14 categories that demonstra...

The sea inside

Projects | Two additional, bunker-style bedrooms are housed on the middle level, where teenagers Ann and John reside. The highest part of the dwelling houses the master bedroom and bathroom. On the coastal side of...

Itinerary: Queenstown city guide

Review | The 1970s saw the arrival of John Blair, first in the employ of Warren and Mahoney to supervise the Travelodge’s construction; he stayed on as the only architect resident in town. He became the local ma...

Marshall Cook: 2006 interview

People | John Walsh talks to him about his career and his profession. John Walsh: Let’s start at the beginning. Where are you from? / Marshall Cook: Napier. I’ve always considered it a privilege to have grown up...

Announcing the 2021 Interior Awards jury

News | While studying towards her Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University, she took two architectural papers with the late Russell Walden and developed an enduring appreciation for the works of John Scott, Ian...

Interior Awards 2022: Meet the jury

News | While working towards her Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University, she took two architectural papers with the late Russell Walden where she studied the works of architects John Scott, Ian Athfield and R...

Brick Bay Folly 2019: Finalists

News | Ghost Chips by graduate Qun Zhang from Cottee Parker Architects, Melbourne and architect and illustrator Lisa Huang is a response to the loss of the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre by John Scott. The steel mes...

2019 Western Architecture Awards

Awards | This year’s jury was led by architect Ian Spiers; he was joined by fellow New Plymouth architect Scott Ferguson, designer Trudie Hudson and Wellington architect John Bannatyne. Spiers noted, “Our region...

2015 New Zealand Architecture Awards shortlist

News | Residential projects, landmark buildings and educational work all have a strong presence in the shortlist for the New Zealand Architecture Awards programme for 2015, announced on 30 July. There will b...

Rocking the shortlist

News | / The Rock is the jewel in Wellington International Airport's crown; it's the tarmac tarrying Warren and Mahoney and Studio Pacific Architects collaboration which, when built, doubled the airport's ...

Houses Revisited: Material boys

Projects | John Scott used the same sort of blocks in his Hawkes Bay houses, such as the one he designed for the potters Bruce and Estelle Martin near Hastings. The blocks might not beloved of blocklayers – they’r...

Australian National Architecture Awards

News | Dingemanse / / RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – HOUSES (ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS) / The Australian Institute of Architects Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions) / Bellevue Terrace Alterations + Addition...

Te Kōngahu / Museum of Waitangi

Projects | First, let’s allay any fears: the old John Scott building is still there in the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. When I first heard about the new Waitangi Museum, I was worried that his 1983 Visitor Centre may ...

Len Lye Centre

Projects | Instrumental in helping develop the city’s arts focus, The Len Lye Foundation instigated the Centre, with considerable funding from John Matthews, and a trust was set up for the purpose. Also, New Plymo...

Winners revealed: 2021 Western Architecture Awards

Awards | Te Rau O Te Aroha – Māori Battalion Hall (1964) by John Scott – Architect / The Māori Battalion Hall, Te Rau O Te Aroha, was erected in Palmerston North on Cuba St as a national memorial to the men of t...

Sir Paul Reeves Building

Projects | Twice now I’ve had the pleasure of visiting AUT’s newest centre for learning, the Sir Paul Reeves Building, named after the 15th Governor-General of New Zealand and first Chancellor of Auckland Univer...

2016 Gold Medal winner: Roger Walker

People | RW: Well, look at the recent tragedy of the demolition of the Āniwaniwa Visitor Centre, designed by John Scott. To me, John Scott was the architectural equivalent of Colin McCahon. It’s quite ironic tha...

Creative Arts Building – Te Ara Hihiko

Projects | Many an architecture critic will tell you that, on receiving a press release emblazoned with the words: ‘leading’, ‘award-winning’, ‘state of the art’ or ‘a world first’, they send it straight to Tras...

AUT University’s Sir Paul Reeves Building

Projects | The year AIT swapped their ‘I’ for a ‘U’, I was in 7th form, making decisions about which university to attend. Despite AIT’s promotion, I remember being dismissive of this so-called ‘university’ so I...

Dave Strachan awarded highest honour in New Zealand architecture

News | Past Gold Medallists have included John Scott (1999), Sir Ian Athfield (2004), Roger Walker (2016) and Jeremy Salmond (2018). Dave Strachan will deliver a Gold Medal lecture at eight centres around New ...

Editorial: Chris Barton on Vive la différence

Practice | Matthew Ridge makes a quite good architecture show host. Yes, the blokey former rugby and league player and tabloid personality also known as ‘Ridgey,’ who, with his mate Marc Ellis, gave us such gems...

Three generations, two houses, one roof

Projects | If John Scott really did gift us the woolshed as the archetypal building for New Zealand architecture, could it be that O’Sullivan is doubling down on these agricultural roots and proposing a corrugated...

On crediting the multidisciplinary project

Review | In September 2021, a review of a significant new mixed-use development in Melbourne’s central business district was published in Architecture Australia. Introduced as “a collaborative new tower, plaza...

Whānau-focused: Kāinga Tuatahi Housing

Projects | The best have cunning diagonal movement across their plans from room to room: a technique John Scott pioneered to make spaces feel bigger. The most interesting thing in one typology is that tenants coul...

Beyond breezeblock: Naranga Avenue House

Projects | The Naranga Avenue House by James Russell Architect is both a set of transparent skins wrapping a series of patio-like spaces and a private family home. It subscribes to the logic of a utilitarian cam...

Book review: Claude Megson: Counter Constructions

Review | A Peter Beaven book was recently published, the stuttering project for a John Scott publication seems finally to have gained traction, and a Gummer and Ford title is apparently in the works. A book on t...

Venice 2014: Vernissage day three

News | By day three of the Vernissage, you are sleep deprived, weary worn, hungover and hoarse. So of course the only thought in your mind is to dive once more into the Biennale, in search of the pavilions t...