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Auckland Architecture Awards 2025: Shortlist announced

Awards | Fifty-six projects have been shortlisted in the 2025 Auckland Architecture Awards. The shortlisted projects were selected from entries in the awards programme of the Auckland Branch of Te Kāhui Whaiha...

Monk Mackenzie grows leadership team

News | I feel fortunate that my career has exposed me to an array of project strategies and that I’m able to share those insights with the Monk Mackenzie team.” / Hamish Monk and Dean Mackenzie, who founded Mo...

Winners revealed: Auckland Architecture Awards 2025

Awards | Thirty-six architectural projects across the Auckland region received a Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Local Award at an event at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell on 30 April....

New Zealand firm wins at World Architecture Festival day one

News | Dean Mackenzie and Hamish Monk started their practice together after many years of working overseas for the likes of OMA and Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), where the two met. They are the minds behin...

Entries open for 2018 World Architecture Festival

News | New Zealand members of the more than 130-person jury pool include Hamish Monk (principal, Monk Mackenzie Architects) and Jeremy Smith (design director, Irving Smith Architects). Entries made to the WAF ...

Carving a niche: Monk Mackenzie

People | Both Hamish Monk and Dean Mackenzie of Auckland-based practice Monk Mackenzie Architects (MMA) have a vast wealth of international experience, working in spots such as Hong Kong, New York and London for...

Report from WAF

Review | – Dean Mackenzie and Hamish Monk

A jewel in the cycle network

News | Dean Mackenzie and Hamish Monk of Monk Mackenzie Architects, in collaboration with Henry Crothers of LandLAB, are behind the modern, eye-catching design for the cycleway. At the project's commencement, ...

Seven New Zealand projects shortlisted at 2013 World Architecture Festival

News | A giraffe house in New Zealand, a monastery in Taiwan, a treehouse in the USA and a research station in Antarctica are among the 302 projects that have been shortlisted for the World Architecture Fest...

Pulling an all-nighter: 24 Hour Design Challenge

News | The jury – which includes Karamia Muller, Nat Cheshire, Hamish Monk and Richard Naish along with Architecture New Zealand editor Justine Harvey – will then decide the top three designs. The finalists an...

University of Auckland: University Hall

Projects | Student hostels were once a first-year rite of passage and the place to go until you were ready for flatting. With the increase in numbers of international students, spaces are very much in demand and...

NZIA Auckland Region awards announced

News | Resolution Footbridge Warren and Mahoney Architects Ltd / The Surf Club at Muriwai Jasmax Limited / Giraffe House Glamuzina Paterson Architects Ltd and Hamish Monk Architecture / Small Project Architect...

Interior Awards 2017: Judges and sponsors announced

News | Dean Mackenzie Along with Hamish Monk, Dean is a director with Monk Mackenzie Architects. He has worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York. He has si...

On the Rise: Tane Pamatatau-Marques

People | TPM: I was lucky enough to start here just before I finished my thesis, working mostly with Hamish Monk and Raukura Turei on iwi and community housing projects. We’re doing some amazing papakāinga work ...

World Architecture Festival 2017

Review | But the questions were all pretty full-on and you’re definitely thinking on your feet.” / Hamish Monk from Monk MacKenzie tagged the WAF trip to Berlin onto an excursion to China as part of an Auckland ...

Determining the built environment

Review | Our primary objective in writing this piece is to understand how it is that architects are often divorced from public work. We want to try to understand how process selection governs outcome and how t...

New Zealand Architecture Awards 2018 shortlist announced

Awards | “We have to find ways to up the game with this type of work, and Housing New Zealand obviously is trying hard to lift standards of design and performance.” / See a full list of finalists below: / Commercial Architecture / Te Kei, Ara C...

World Architecture Festival 2016

Review | Dean Mackenzie and Hamish Monk of Monk Mackenzie and Henry Crothers of LandLAB presented Auckland’s famous pink LightPath, which won Transport – Completed Projects category at the World Architecture Fes...

Singing for supper

Review | Sixteen New Zealand architects attended the three-day WAF event, held at the Marina Bay Sands Conference Centre in Singapore from 4 to 6 November 2015. A stellar line-up of New Zealand architects pres...

2017 Auckland Architecture Awards: winners

Awards | 43 diverse projects, ranging from a large, contemporary Tongan building to an innovative, artistic gateway structure on Waiheke Island, were rewarded at the 2017 Auckland Architecture Awards, held at ...