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NZGBC Future Thinker of the Year 2024

News | The New Zealand Green Building Council’s Future Thinker of the Year is awarded annually to a student or recent graduate who has demonstrated environmental knowledge and leadership. This could be through...

NZGBC announce Future Thinker of the Year 2024

Awards | “As the recipient of the 2024 Future Thinker of the Year award, I see this honour as an opportunity to inspire others to voice their passions and drive positive change,” Auliagisni reflects. / Auliagis...

Future Thinker of the Year 2021 announced

News | Meredith Dale, urban strategist at Auckland-based firm The Urban Advisory was recognised by the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZBGC) as the 2021 Future Thinker of the Year for her "passion and cle...

Future Thinker of the Year announced

News | The New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC) named Kate Boylan as the winner of its inaugural Future Thinker of the Year award. Boylan, a sustainability engineer at Tonkin + Taylor, said she was "beyo...

NZGBC announce Future Thinker of the Year

Awards | Sponsored by Mott MacDonald and Warren and Mahoney, the award forms part of a calendar of events put on by the NZGBC’s Future Thinker network for students and young professionals. / “For the fourth yea...

NZGBC Future Thinker of the Year 2020 announced

News | Tessa Meyer, a corporate responsibility advisor at Auckland Council’s development arm Panuku Development Auckland, has been named the 2020 Future Thinker of the Year. Now in its second year, the Future ...

ILF Institute call for proposals

News | The International Living Future Institute is calling for proposals for education sessions and presenters, moderators or facilitators for the 2014 Living Future unConference to be held in Portland, Orego...

Unconventional Disruptors: CoreNet Symposium 2024

News | Three internationally acclaimed speakers from overseas will join some exceptional New Zealand disruptors, with James Pearce of Populous exploring how cutting-edge creativity and design principles are ...

Get Urbanized – a Gary Hustwit documentary about those who shape cities and how they do it.

People | By exploring a diverse range of urban design projects around the world, Urbanized frames a global discussion on the future of cities.

Radical responsibility

Practice | Outlining a vision of a future we wanted to create enabled us to set outcomes, targets and indicators of success, and to know how to achieve them. This exercise brought all this raw ambition into focus ...

New Zealand firm shortlisted for Mini Living design competition

News | Dezeen and Mini Living's Future Urban Home competition announced its shortlist earlier this week, and New Zealand firm Jasmax has been included among the 15 finalists. Over 400 entries were submitted to...

A (not so) new home for design in Aotearoa

News | People who live and breathe design and its application, stepping up to see the future of their field platformed by New Zealand’s only craft, design and architecture gallery. Find out more at www.objects...

Urban Art Village

Review | Five installations claimed 100m of O’Connell Street — turning each visitor into the artist, architect and analyst. We start at the Freyberg Steps. The skies darken and the square lights up. You step i...

Up with the play! Creating experiences for the future

People | It was clear he is a progressive thinker, with an animated, positive spirit and a genuine care for design excellence, in particular design excellence, at scale. / What will lead our futures ? / “Celeb...

Top architecture students awarded

News | Elyjana Roach, from Victoria University of Wellington, was also highly commended for a project that envisions a better future for her hometown of Porirua, which is deep-rooted in community engagement. T...

2017 MPavilion designers announced

News | Organizers are yet to make an announcement about the future of the project beyond 2017. The 2017 MPavilion will open on 3 October 2017.

Jonathan Rose: bringing cities to life

People | “[The concern was on] implementing the zoning codes that fragmented cities rather than integrating them into a coherent whole.” / While not shying away from future scenarios of volatility, uncertainty, ...

Review: 2018 Sir Ian Athfield Lecture

Review | A small but cheerful crowd came out last night to gather in the Remarkables Primary School hall in Queenstown for the 2018 Sir Ian Athfield Memorial lecture, presented by American journalist Allison A...

Event review: Dissent 2019

Review | Leaving the last Congress two years ago in Sydney, we felt we’d found a home in future collaborators, promises to come and stay, and arguments to continue later with new friends. At the completion of Di...

Gen Z design: Sustainability at the fore

People | Whilst we spend the foreseeable future saving lives by staying in our homes, I think you can really notice what parts of your house you use and don’t use. By looking at the end user of the space and usi...

Workplace/Worklife: meet the panellists

People | The one-day workshop of talks and panel discussions about what the workplace future holds in store, and how designers and employers can embrace it, takes place at the Museum of Sydney on 6 August 2013. ...

Making space for place

Review | Placemaking (as it is commonly referred to today) finds its roots with a group of forward-thinking urban minds including Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch and William Whyte. These great thinkers changed the re...

Film for thought

Review | Ekumenopolis raised a palpable fear that the consequence of poor planning on the future of such a city can only be to dystopically blot out both its inhabitants and its vital natural hinterland. A fear ...

Our voices: Indigeneity and architecture

Review | Our voices: Indigeneity and architecture begins as its title signals, calling to its reader in chapter-long verses that share research findings, practice observations, lived experiences and creative m...

Love and basketball: Michael Vaisigano

People | What are your hopes for the future? / MV: Statistically, Pākehā dominate the current pool of registered architects in New Zealand, with Māori and Pasifika sitting heavily at the bottom. I have hopes t...

Opinion: Parallel education systems

Practice | Glenn (eds.), The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture, Singapore, Springer, 2018, and ‘Open your eyes to the future of Māori architecture’, 3 Jan 2020. https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/20...

The ethical city: an idea whose time has come

Practice | Globally, there is intense discussion about the future of urban life through the World Urban Campaign. The central proposition is that "the battle for a more sustainable future will be won or lost in ci...

Festival of Architecture 2019: Part II

Festival Of Architecture | Future residential development around the site is supported by the rolling meadows and native forests, as well as social amenities such as playgrounds, skating, urban farming and, of course, a brewery.”...

MOTAT Aviation Display Hall

Projects | But whether it’s war or merely careless exploitation, we are now starting to encounter the first signs of a scarcity of resources that, unless it can be addressed effectively, will impoverish future gen...

Quality of place: Amanda Reynolds

People | AMH: What do you think the future of urban design is in London, and in Auckland? / AR: These two places have very different problems although they share some as well – insanely high housing prices for i...