Tag: Commercial

2024 Sir Miles Warren Award winner: Deloitte Centre – Te Kaha

Awards | The 2024 Sir Miles Warren Award for Commercial Architecture went to Deloitte Centre – Te Kaha by Warren and Mahoney.

Snakeskin chic

Projects | Guy Marriage highlights the unique design of BNZ Place in Wellington, from its bone-like verandah to its slender structural diagrid and rooftop oculus.

Modesty and verve

Projects | Mark Southcombe visits the Toi Mahara gallery redevelopment in Waikanae by Athfield Architects and explores a beautiful dialogue between old and new.

Invercargill renaissance

Projects | Megan Rule explores the layers of history and heritage behind the ambitious redevelopment of Invercargill Central by Buchan.

Finding peace in the chaos

Projects | Linehouse, co-founded by New Zealand expat Briar Hickling, has transformed the façade and seven floors of CentralWorld in Bangkok.

Opening of Te Arikinui Pullman Auckland Airport Hotel delivers fusion of cultural and high-end design

A fusion of cultural and high-end design

Projects | Te Arikinui Pullman Auckland Airport Hotel — Waikato-Tainui’s $200m project — has officially opened and displays both architectural and cultural significance.

Vernacular adventure

Projects | On the upper reaches of Lake Wakatipu, RTA Studio and Bureaux go high concept with traditional types at The Great Glenorchy Alpine Base Camp.

Timber arch sets record for size

Projects | Air New Zealand’s new Hangar 4 is set to be the largest timber arch in the southern hemisphere.

Polished professionalism

Projects | The design and fit-out of this new-build orthodontist practice was a first for the client and KKID, both embracing an opportunity to break with convention.

Civic good manners

Projects | John Walsh talks to Gary Todd of Gary Todd Architecture about his award-winning Ebb-Dunedin and its underlying narrative to connect the building in place and time.

Cabinet of curiosities

Projects | Amanda Harkness explores the dramatic interior narrative, combining the exotic and eclectic with the comfortable, of Wellington’s Naumi Studio Hotel by Material Creative.

Projects | Mark Southcombe finds the essential character of Wellington’s Cuba Street in Athfield Architects’ remaking of the Farmers Building and adjoining buildings to be a sensitive bridging of time.

Two sides of Sala

Projects | Alongside this boutique gym’s first space, opened in 2018, a second studio space designed by Mijntje Lepoutre offers both continuity and change for the brand.

Volcanic dome

Projects | Bill McKay is transported to ancient Rome as he explores the curvilinear market place of Foodstuffs’ North Island HQ by Monk Mackenzie.

The technology of the trees

Projects | Chris Barton finds at Scion’s Innovation Hub, Te Whare Nui o Tuteata, in Rotorua – by RTA Studio, in collaboration with Irving Smith Architects – a showcase of radically new methods in multilevel timber construction and a benchmark for achieving net-zero embodied carbon.