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Len Lye Centre

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...
Architect Sarah Scott in profile

Architect Sarah Scott in profile

People | I definitely remember them both - John McKeefry and Ben Brenton, not bad after 40 years is it? The earlier architect was a close family friend as well so I knew him even though I was not around when all...
Gymnastics of the cross

Gymnastics of the cross

Projects |   / In a wall niche, there’s also a hand-carved statue of Mary made by Michael Pervin from the Studio of John the Baptist. On the wall by the baptismal font, three icons, hand-painted in the traditional...
John McCoy in profile

John McCoy in profile

People | Were you born in Dunedin John? / Yes, I was born and bred in Dunedin. Ted [McCoy] was here all his life as well. So you went to high school there? / I had a Catholic upbringing and I went to St Joseph...
Miramar Roxy Cinema renovation

Miramar Roxy Cinema renovation

Projects | Perhaps Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Gay Divorcee, John Wayne as the screen's first singing cowboy in Riders of Destiny or a terrifying performance of Dracula with real screams. In the 1930s ci...
Thinking Furniture

Thinking Furniture

Practice | Michael Brill; Sue Weidemann; and John Olson and Ellen Keable; BOSTI Associates; Disproving Widespread Myths About Workplace Design; Kimball International
ASB Sports Centre

ASB Sports Centre

Projects | However, what the opposers failed to properly grasp, and fortunately Sir John Anderson’s review of the case understood, was that this sports facility is intended mainly to be a community destination, se...
Art (and Architecture) in Venice

Art (and Architecture) in Venice

Review | Architect John Pawson created a crystal lens that harnessed the Vitruvian energy of Palladio’s renaissance building, for example, and the ‘big guns of the artworld’ were also in force: Richard Serra’s t...
ANZ Centre

ANZ Centre

Projects | Step into the ANZ Centre tower in downtown Auckland and you could be walking into the lobby of a posh international hotel, rather than a bank. Low-slung, curvaceous couches hug limestone-clad colonnad...
Organic forms

Organic forms

People | AMH: What are some domestic buildings that you love or get inspiration from? / NS: Some of the houses of John Scott, the Martin house is a key one, and others like Ron Sang’s Brian Brake house in Titira...
The waka huia

The waka huia

Projects | What was your main goal there? / GH: The foyer refers back to both John Scott [the original architect of the Waitangi visitor centre] and Professor Dick Toy, who were active through the 1970s and ‘80s. ...
The future of green building

The future of green building

Review | Closing keynote speaker John Keung, chief executive of the Building and Construction Authority, Singapore, talked about his experiences in the city that has “moved from slums to a sustainable built envi...
2018 New Zealand Architecture Awards: Winners

2018 New Zealand Architecture Awards: Winners

Awards | This year's jury was made up of Peddle Thorp director Richard Goldie, founder of Bell + Co Architecture Andrea Bell, Wellington architect John Melhuish and Melbourne-based architect Amy Muir. See below ...
Posted: 9 Nov 2018
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