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Window to the world

Projects | Scott (Ngāi Tahu), and mana whenua who worked alongside the design team and gifted the name Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, as well as wider contributors across the precinct that included John Gray, Rewi Thom...

Review: Claude Megson Architect

Review | It aligns Megson’s early output with the work of Peter Beaven, John Scott, Ian Athfield, and Roger Walker, parallels that had Megson featuring with them in the New Romantics exhibition at The Dowse Art ...

Southern Architecture Awards 2026: Shortlist announced

Awards | See above for images of the shortlisted projects, which are: / Housing / Arrowtown Houses by Cheshire Architects Bramble Close House by Condon Scott Architects Central Otago House by Wilson and Hill Architects Corrugated Crib - Mount I...

Breathing new life into an architectural treasure

News | Architect John Scott, sculptor Jim Allen and the lay Marist brother builders had crafted an edifice of true elegance, inspirational architecture. Then, much later, in 1994 as a nearby resident, while wa...

John Scott-designed Hawke’s Bay home goes up for sale

News | A 1988 home designed by legendary New Zealand architect John Scott has recently been put up for sale in Havelock North. This three-bedroom, two-bathroom home is on the market for the first time in 25 ye...

Tower of now

Projects | Hence the attempt to extend the innovations of timber gothic and of the various later folk — the Group, John Scott, Miles Warren, etc. — who themselves drew on those traditions and techniques.” The conn...

Objectspace video series explores John Scott pou

News | New Zealand modernist icon John Scott and his use of the pou – a central column – in bringing Māori architecture into the mainstream is the latest subject in the series. Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kah...

Kevin McCloud fronts historic Futuna Chapel restoration

People | / Acclaimed for his work on the popular Grand Designs series, McCloud has lent his support to the call to raise funds for the restoration of the John Scott-designed Chapel, which had previously been l...

2025 John Scott Award winner: Punangairi Visitor Centre

Awards | Punangairi is a highly sustainable visitor centre, carefully placed within one of the most beautiful and sensitive natural environments in the West Coast region. The architecture responds to the lands...

John Scott’s Werry Francis House on the market

News | The main three-bedroomed Werry House has many of the signature features of a John Scott (1924–1992) house – concrete block construction, use of exposed timber posts, contrasting ceiling heights and expo...

Significant John Scott drawings gifted to library

News | At the wheel was Jacob Scott, eldest son of architect John Scott, accompanied by his brother Adam. In the van were 67 A1 AGFA photographic paper boxes: 50 red, 12 green and five yellow. In the boxes lay...

Futuna Chapel exhibition a rare insight into architectural taonga

News | The work was produced by architect John Scott (9 June 1924–30 July 1992) and artist Jim Allen (22 July 1922–9 June 2023) and constructed by a dedicated team of voluntary lay brothers between 1957 and 19...

Book review: John Scott Works

Review | Disclosure: When I graduated, I wanted to work for John Scott. (I always knew him as John whereas those closer called him Scott or JC.) But after letters and phone calls, we couldn’t ever get it togethe...

2023 John Scott Award winner: Te Pae North Piha Surf Life-saving Tower

Awards | Jury Commentary / Named Award citation: / “Sometimes functional and pragmatic buildings can elicit a business-as-usual architectural response. This is anything but. Much of the materials and labour we...

2024 John Scott Award for Public Architecture winner: Te Taumata o Kupe Nuku

Awards | Project Description / This would be a place where people could recite and receive mātauranga Māori, particularly that associated with Kupe, the legendary Polynesian navigator and explorer acknowledged...

Rendered Futures: Drawing architecture exhibition at Objectspace opens 28 June

News | Refiti, Jon Rennie, Nick Roberts, Raphaela Rose, Finn Scott, John Scott, Lynda Simmons , Ashleigh Smith, Henry Stephens , Julie Stout , Isaac Sweetapple, Dajiang (DJ) Tai, Rewi Thompson, Icao Tiseli, Sa...

Designing better futures for Aotearoa New Zealand: He tirohanga Māori, a Māori perspective

Review | In 2011, the charitable trust that had been established in 2003 to save John Scott’s Futuna Chapel at Karori, Wellington, initiated a lecture series to raise funds for the building’s conservation and pr...

Scott Pritchard elected Property Council National Chair

News | “I feel very privileged to be taking the reins from John Dakin who’s done an amazing job, particularly through the past year,” he says. “I’m keen to ensure that Property Council continues to have a stro...

Futuna Chapel Fund launched

News | The Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust has officially launched the Futuna Chapel Fund to build a long-term funding stream to support the Chapel and the heritage of John Scott and Jim Allen, and to prese...

Save John Scott’s Aniwaniwa Centre

News | Designed by the late Māori architect John Scott, the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre is a Heritage New Zealand Category One Historic Place. The Institute of Architects president Christina van Bohemen says that...

2017 John Scott Award for Public Architecture

Awards | Jury Commentary Lance Herbst, Louise Wright and Jack McKinney / This exquisite chapel is a sensitive insertion into a site with two strong but disparate existing buildings. The ambition of the concept...

2022 John Scott Award winner: HomeGround – Auckland City Mission Te Tāpui Atawhai

Awards | Project team: / Nicholas Stevens, Gary Lawson, Joshua Warne, Sasha Hendry, Howie Kang, James Hay, Yvonne Mak, Juliana Budel, Elliott Morgan, Yvette Overdyck, Natalie Keane, Kat Hebden, Barry Tobin, Bhavina Le Grice, Woo Min Lee,

Book review: Life of a Building: Futuna

Review | The book is carefully constructed with David Mitchell offering a personal reading of architect John Scott; Chris Cochran, a full chronology of the genesis and near loss of the building; Futuna Trust gue...

Inaugural Hawkes Bay architecture lecture series

News | Nationally recognised works by architects like Louis Hay, John Scott, Len Hoogerbrug, Guy Natusch, Malcolm Sweet, Paris Magdalinos, Peter Holland et al contribute to the region's cultural history. The t...

Distinct and sympathetic: 2019 John Scott Award for Public Architecture

Awards | Christchurch's new central library, Tūranga, was awarded the John Scott Award for Public Architecture by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects at the 2019 New Zealand Architecture Award...

Not to miss 2024 NZIA events

News | Gordon Wilson Fellowship for Public Housing, John Sutherland Practice Award, Sir Miles Warren Award for Commercial Architecture, Ted McCoy Award for Education, Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing and the...

2018 John Scott Award for Public Architecture

Awards | Jury Commentary Richard Goldie, Andrea Bell, Amy Muir and John Melhuish / The new chapel at St Andrew’s College overtly references its much-loved quake-ruined predecessor through the incorporation of nu...

Best in public architecture 2020: Hihiaua Cultural Centre

Awards | The Hihiaua Cultural Centre by Moller Architects was named winner of the 2020 John Scott Award for Public Architecture at this year's New Zealand Architecture Awards. In combining the traditional whare ...

2021 New Zealand Architecture Awards Best in Public Architecture: Christchurch Town Hall

Awards | The Christchurch Town Hall was named winner of the 2021 John Scott Award for Public Architecture at this year's New Zealand Architecture Awards. The judges said Warren and Mahoney have breathed new life...

Personal space: Luke Scott

People | What I’m reading / Ways of Seeing by John Berger. An oldie but a goodie, based on a TV series of the same name. Dean, our creative director, informed me a while back that the fact I studied design and...