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Venice 2014: Vernissage day three

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...
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...
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
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...
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. ...
With Patrick Clifford

With Patrick Clifford

People | ANZ: You’d joined forces with Cook Hitchcock & Sargisson and John Scott, hadn’t you? / PC: Yes. We did the first stage and we must have received some money to do the second stage. There were five firms ...
Itinerary City Guide: Whangārei

Itinerary City Guide: Whangārei

Review | 14. 2019– Hihiaua Cultural Centre / 56 Herekino Street Moller Architects / Awarding this building, the first in a multi-stage development, the NZIA John Scott Award for Public Architecture in 2020, th...
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