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One year on: Motueka’s net zero community hub
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Jerram Tocker Barron Architects Motueka Public Library is a sustainable net-zero building that fulfilled a complex brief for just under 3.8 million.
30 years on: Wellington Central Library
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As Wellington City Council votes to keep the Athfield-designed building, we pull the original review of it from Architecture New Zealand‘s Mar/Apr 1992 issue out of the archives.
Going beyond the brief
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Athfield Architects’ Waitohi Johnsonville Library and Community Hub proves to prioritise placemaking and connections to the urban context.
Outside opinion: ChCh central library
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Barnaby Bennett and Jessica Halliday give perspective on the exterior architecture of Tūranga, the new ChCh central library.
Ex Libris: In honour of three libraries
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Architecture graduate Icao Tiseli tours three soon-to-close specialist libraries in an event with Objectspace gallery.
Cultivate it as you will
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Photographer Mickey Smith delves into the history of eighteen libraries gifted to New Zealand and their modern-day uses.
Civic pride: Kaiapoi Library
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Brightly coloured and multifunctional, this building serves as the community services centre for a small Canterbury town.
Te Atatu Peninsula Library
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Moller Architects’ library and community centre features dynamic interior spaces and façade sunscreens.
The evolving library
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No longer purely a repository of books, today’s libraries are social and information hubs, combining physical with digital.
National Library of New Zealand
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Warren and Mahoney’s sensitive transformation of a brutalist building in Wellington’s urban village.
Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre
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Irving Smith Jack Architects’ adaptive reuse of a former Briscoes retail box has given the abandoned building new
life.