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Flights of fancy

Review | / This expressive metal and wooden tornado-like staircase is located in Israel and crafted by Tomer Gelfand. A total of 9,000 meters in length of raw Poplar wood was cut in a CNC machine to create t...

2012 Milan Furniture Fair – the best so far

Review | Called Spring Table, the restaurant serves diners in the historic cloisters of the building during the day and in the frescoed original monks' dining room in the evening. Overall, MOST is impressive – a...

Fo Guang Shan Pagoda

Projects | The upper levels of the pagoda, where cremated remains will be kept, will be accessible only to the monks or nuns of the temple. The layout of this area is suitably austere, with exposed concrete and a ...

Viewfinder: Top Five with Simon Wilson

Projects | Les Mills Auckland City by Knight Associates and Monk Mackenzie I’ve been lucky to work alongside Rufus Knight documenting his interior projects for many years. We both like to tell the story of a proje...

Winners announced at the 2022 Interior Awards

Awards | Find out more > / / EMERGING DESIGN PROFESSIONAL / Raukura Turei of Monk MacKenzie / “Threading the multiple roles of mother, artist and architect throughout her work, Raukura’s collaborative and cra...

Green commons

Projects | Of course, monks must submit to a rule, but co-housers get to choose from a menu of voluntary activities and communal amenities. Toiora residents can sign up for gardening duty and one Toiora statistic,...

New Zealand Architecture Awards 2018 shortlist announced

Awards | “We have to find ways to up the game with this type of work, and Housing New Zealand obviously is trying hard to lift standards of design and performance.” / See a full list of finalists below: / Commercial Architecture / Te Kei, Ara C...

COVID consciousness: Against the bunker

Review | In architectural practice, it isn’t much of a leap to categorise work such as Monk Mackenzie’s X_House concept or Architecture Workshop’s Lindis Lodge as buildings which, even before seductively hunkeri...

Diversity in architecture: part two

Practice | Shaking prejudices / Raukura Turei is the project architect of a large-scale commercial project in Auckland for Monk Mackenzie. Here, she talks about education and the role of the property developer in ...

Southern retreat

Projects | Designed to blend in with their surroundings, the buildings that will make up New Zealand’s first off the grid health retreat sit on remote ridges in the hills near Glenorchy. Overlooking the northwes...

Winners announced at the 2021 Interior Awards

Awards | Harkness was joined on the jury this year by director of Knight Associates, Rufus Knight; workplace strategist and interior designer at Peddlethorp, Sarah Bryant; architect at Monk Mackenzie, Raukura Tu...

Itinerary Guide: Jack McKinney — hospitality and commercial projects

Review | Enjoy the Zoo’s growing collection of interesting buildings, including the Giraffe House (2013) by Monk Mackenzie and Glamuzina Paterson, and the Administration Building (2018) by Ignite Architects. 13....

Winners announced: Interior Awards 2019

Awards | HOSPITALITY AWARD / The Les Mills – boxing, functional and immersive fitness areas, designed by Monk Mackenzie, Knight Associates and Alt Group, took home the Hospitality Award for their creation of spa...

Books: November 2019 edition

Review | This is a lovely book about a lovely building – do what you can to finagle a copy – but it will be even better when it has little books to sit alongside it by Monk Mackenzie, Edwards White, PAC Studio a...

Winners revealed: Auckland Architecture Awards 2024

Awards | Edition by Monk MacKenzie / A strong, uncompromising form straddles the suburban and commercial edge of Parnell. Views are freed up from street level via a powerful floating upper form that hovers brave...

2016 Auckland Architecture Awards

Awards | PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN AWARDS: / #LightPathAKL, Central Auckland by Monk McKenzie and LandLAB, in association / An heroic achievement: an utterly intoxicating piece of cycling and pedestrian infrastruc...

Iberian Study Tour

Review | Its original outdoor courtyard has been given a roof to create a dramatic indoor space but, as you swim in the pool on an upper floor, you cannot help but wonder what the monks would think of Byrne’s ad...

Itinerary: Office buildings

Review | 14. 2020 – Foodstuffs Headquarters / 35 Landing Drive, Auckland by Monk Mackenzie / The backstreets around airports aren’t usually promising places to look for architecture but this headquarters for...

2018 Auckland Architecture Awards

Awards | Jennings Jersey by Monk MacKenzie / In this Housing New Zealand project in Mount Albert, density has been achieved in a manner that complements the surrounding neighbourhood in a scheme that is “efficie...

Itinerary: Libraries and community centres

Review | / St Benedict’s rules for monastic life, written in 516AD, stated that monks were to read for at least two hours a day and, for this purpose, were to be provided with ‘individual volumes from the book...

Winners announced: 2021 Auckland Architecture Awards

Awards | Kāinga Ora – Brookfield and Onehunga Mall Housing Development by Monk MacKenzie / This Kāinga Ora housing development is well positioned and holds the corner of a busy road with confidence. The building...

2017 Auckland Architecture Awards: winners

Awards | 43 diverse projects, ranging from a large, contemporary Tongan building to an innovative, artistic gateway structure on Waiheke Island, were rewarded at the 2017 Auckland Architecture Awards, held at ...

Winners revealed: Auckland Architecture Awards 2023

Awards | Jervois Apartments by Monk MacKenzie / Simple, restrained and understated in so many ways, this project is an impressive example of how urban developments can engage with the public realm. Designed in r...