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Community Impact Award returns

Awards | This year’s Interior Awards sees the Community Impact Award category reinstated with new entry criteria. Find everything you need to know here.

Global community of women invests in six female-led business ventures in Aotearoa New Zealand

Six female-led Kiwi businesses granted interest-free loans

News | Coralus (formerly SheEO) has granted interest-free loans to six female or non-binary businesses including Matakohe Architecture + Urbanism, led by Jade Kake.

A place to call home

Projects | Keni-Duke Hetet of Waka Group Architecture talks to Nicola Coburn about a project close to his heart, a new papakāinga in Motueka that offers 20 low-cost rental homes.

Community Impact Award: Call for entries

Awards | Following the positive reception of its introduction last year — celebrating the design and lasting impact of fundraised community projects — this year sees its return.

Green commons

Projects | John Walsh visits the Toiora High Street Cohousing project in Ōtepoti Dunedin, by Architype, and finds a connection to a timeless tradition of shared space.

New Community Impact Award announced for Interior Awards 2023

Interior Awards announces new Community Impact Award

News | This year, the Interior Awards programme is introducing a new award to celebrate the creation of spaces for communities and not-for-profit organisations.

Under the folds of the rock

Projects | In Karekare Surf Lifesaving Club by Richard Priest Architect, in association with 106 Architects, Sir Bob Harvey finds a modest building designed to merge with its majestic setting.

New surf life saving club at Taylors Mistake

Projects | Wilson and Hill Architects’ new surf life saving club at Taylors Mistake blends seamlessly into its natural surroundings.

State housing: The new generation

Practice | Peddlethorp’s Manuel Diaz explores the changing face of state housing in New Zealand and reflects on the firm’s work on recent community housing projects.

Final barracks: Lakeside Soldiers Memorial Hall

Projects | Ian Lochhead reflects on what the reinstatement of this building means to the local community and its sense of connectedness to place.

Best of 2018: Top five commercial projects

Best of 2018: Top commercial projects

Projects | A look back at our most popular commercial projects in New Zealand of 2018.

Sports and recreation: designing wellness

Practice | Architect Alex Head explores how sports and recreation design has evolved as society’s focus on holistic wellness increases.

‘A mammoth effort’: Naenae Bowling Club

Projects | A dynamic, innovative roof covers Naenae’s newest community hub: a progressive bowling club by Tennent Brown Architects.

Staying alive: Trafalgar Centre

Projects | An elegant, black pavilion and surrounds create a real civic dimension to Nelson’s major indoor sports and community venue.

Tight-knit: Mt Pleasant Community Centre

Projects | This marvel of prefabricated construction could pave the way for the future of design and construction in New Zealand.

The people’s place

Practice | Benje Feehan, associate director at Ignite Architects, writes on why design shouldn’t just be for architects.

Ponsonby Park: vote for your favourite design

Ponsonby Park: have your say

News | Vote for your favourite design for the proposed park at 254 Ponsonby Road, a fully community-led urban design project.

Where is our collective imagination?

Practice | With urban house prices so high, the self-funded co-housing model could be an antidote to the market-driven developer model.

Toia – Otahuhu Recreation Precinct

Projects | Expanding existing facilities and integrating an under-functioning reserve has created a quality recreation destination.

Reasserting heritage: Te Oro

Projects | With its roots in Pacific culture, Archimedia’s new community centre has been likened to “a giant musical instrument”.