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Gymnastics of the cross
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/ 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...
Itinerary: Libraries and community centres
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John Hunt wrote, “community workshops played a key role in establishing local needs and expectations and in establishing a design direction. Familiar themes of voyage, arrival and welcome merge as part ...
Itinerary City Guide: Papaioea Palmerston North
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Perhaps because of this constant traffic, the city hasn’t fostered a John Scott or John Blair-like character to differentiate the local scene. Surprising, then, is the city’s roll-call of architectural ...
John McCoy in profile
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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...
Winners announced: 2019 New Zealand Architecture Awards
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JOHN SCOTT AWARD FOR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE: / Tūranga by Architectus and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects / Judges said: “Tūranga is a building of distinction, which admirably fulfils its function as Chri...
Itinerary City Guide: Whangārei
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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...
Winners revealed: Southern Architecture Awards 2023
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Three short-stay apartments are named after former occupants Gaynor Clayton, Henry Matthews and John Campbell, and the interiors are inspired by them. Large circular openings at the rear façade of an ap...
2018 New Zealand Architecture Awards: Winners
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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 ...
2019 Southern Architecture Awards
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Little Brighton Beach House by Johnston Architects / The project is “finely perched near dunes, orientated to addresses the best aspects of the surrounding environment and to generate interesting archit...
Winners revealed: 2020 Gisborne/Hawkes Bay Architecture Awards
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Housing / Turley House by Gavin Cooper Architect / The work of Guy Natusch and John Scott was a starting point for this thoughtfully designed home, which is the product of years of dreaming and planning...
Opinion: The disappearing plan and section
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archdaily.com/941870/architects-diverse-positions-on-visualization-from-hyper-realistic-renderings-to-digital-collages / 3 Scott Overall, John Paul Rysavy, Clinton Miller, William Sharples, Christopher...
The future of green building
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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...
2017 Gisborne/Hawke’s Bay Architecture Awards
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/ ENDURING ARCHITECTURE AWARD: / Martin House (1970) by John Scott Architect / A delightful and inspiring home with playful uses of volume, light and the relationship between shared and private space....
2018 Gisborne/Hawkes Bay and Waikato/Bay of Plenty Architecture Awards
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The New Zealand Institute of Architects Gisborne/Hawkes Bay and Waikato/Bay of Plenty branches combined this year for their local awards ceremonies. The winners in both regions were announced on 4 May...
2015 Gisborne-Hawkes Bay Architecture Awards
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SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE AWARDS: / John’s House Pavilion by Bossley Architects and Citrus Studio in association
/ This single bedroom, self-contained retreat is deliberately sited in direct conversa...
Organic forms
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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
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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. ...
Miramar Roxy Cinema renovation
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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
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Michael Brill; Sue Weidemann; and John Olson and Ellen Keable; BOSTI Associates; Disproving Widespread Myths About Workplace Design; Kimball International
ASB Sports Centre
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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
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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
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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...
With Patrick Clifford
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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 ...
Winners announced: 2021 Southern Architecture Awards
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The judging panel for the night was comprised of convenor Rafe Maclean of Rafe Maclean Architects, along with Simon Richmond of Salmond Architecture, Amanda Dorset, owner of Wilson & Dorset, and John Da...
Ways of making
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To provide more in-depth engagement with technology and construction, since 2009, senior lecturer John Chapman, a qualified engineer, ran a post-graduate Timber Technology seminar course in the fourth y...
Scrap it or save it… again
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Also worth considering is the cost to Council of its current commercial leases for three temporary CBD library pop-ups plus a new Johnsonville library collection and distribution centre, likely costing ...
“Exciting and optimistic” apartment wins at 2020 Resene Total Colour Awards
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It is a feast for the eyes.” / Resene Total Colour Commercial Interior + Public Space Colour Maestro Award
/ Waitohi Johnsonville Library and Community Hub by John Hardwick-Smith, Chris Winwood, Nick ...
Balancing creativity and practicality
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It’s hard to come up with my favourite but I think the Fortuna chapel by John Scott is a great building – the light and form is just beautiful. AMH: What would be a dream commission for you if you could...
Architect profile: Dominic Glamuzina
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In New Zealand, Claude Megson's houses are spatial madness, and I’ve always liked how John Scott dealt with roof forms. The Kiwi architects that I admire the most have a really broad practice. They don’...
On the Rise: Geordie Shaw
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In New Zealand, John Scott is a big influence. Emma and I got married in Futuna Chapel, which was very special for us. AMH: What piece of advice would you give to your student self? / GS: I think it too...