Tag: Civic | Architecture Now

Blue sky thinking

Review | A review of retail developments in the downtown and Ponsonby areas of Auckland.

Projects | Athfield Architects has succeeded in giving the building an open-hearted civility and a conscience.

Projects | Architecture as landscape is the principle that guided Warren and Mahoney’s Buddhist pagoda for a temple in Auckland.

Projects | Phil Smith designs a childcare centre that is literally embraced by the earth.

Projects | Copeland Associates Architects’ Tower at Auckland’s North Harbour Stadium may be “just a box but it’s a box done well”.

People | Reykjavik-based Massimo Santanicchia talks about “Meanwhile” – low-budget small scale interventions.

Projects | Irving Smith Jack Architects’ adaptive reuse of a former Briscoes retail box has given the abandoned building new life.

Projects | Tennent + Brown Architects’ community sports centre in Wellington deals with its harsh environs with aplomb.

Projects | A 141-metre back country suspension bridge is the longest of its kind to be built in New Zealand since 1926.

Projects | Reset Urban Design puts in place a number of intitiatives to turn Waiuku back to the river.

Projects | A well-organised backdrop for musical endeavour and vitality by Architectus.

Projects | Together with Daryl Jackson of Sydney, Jasmax has created a more connected and student-centred space.

Projects | Sport and higher learning move a little closer together at a University of Otago satellite campus by Warren and Mahoney.

Projects | A building designed by Ivan Mercep of JASMaD in the early ‘80s has been seamlessly refurbished by RTA Studio.

Projects | There has been a clearing of the decks in this building that is opening new doorways.

Projects | Tommy Honey outlines the major capital works programme at the University and reviews its latest wave of buildings.

Projects | Boffa Miskell ventures under the bridge and works up a public plaza in a tricky position.

Projects | Tennent + Brown Architects have realised the metaphorical essence of Te Whare Tapa Wha.

Projects | A watershed Wellington structure designed by architecture +.

Projects | With vistas across Lake Wanaka to the Southern Alps, Sarah Scott Architects’ elegant church offers a sense of occasion.