Tag: Education | Architecture Now

Architects not required

People | Editor of Architecture NZ magazine, Chris Barton, considers the current government’s call to put an end to “fancy, architecturally designed classrooms”.

A polyphonic assemblage

Projects | Dorita Hannah tours Toi Manawa Kīngi Kāreti, King’s College’s new performing arts centre, and enjoys the dynamic tension in Patterson Associates’ design.

2024 Ted McCoy Award for Education winner: The Pā

Awards | The 2024 Ted McCoy Award for Education winner went to The Pā by Architectus, Jasmax and designTRIBE.

Science on show

Projects | Matthew Webby explores the carefully curated spaces of Waimarie, Lincoln University’s new agricultural science facility by WAM and Lab-works Architecture.

Students embark on Homestar 7 renovation

News | Students at One Tree College’s Trade Academy have been tasked with an ambitious renovation of a 1970s ex-state house, the first project of its type in New Zealand.

Projects | Abigail Hurst looks at Marian College, the bold transformation of a former Foodstuffs distribution centre by Sheppard & Rout Architects, and what it says about sustainability and schools of the future.

Industry ready? Architectural graduates vs. technicians

People | Joseph McAuley, former Director of NZIA’s Emerge programme, questions the status quo guiding architectural education in New Zealand asking “Are our graduates industry-ready”?

New category announced for this year’s Interior Awards

Awards | This year sees the introduction of a new Education category to the Interior Awards, to recognise schools, universities and other learning facilities.

Communities of learning

Practice | Jasper van der Lingen investigates how extensive community consultation shaped the carefully layered communal forms of Christchurch’s new Te Aratai College by Architectus.

AUT Art & Design Graduate Showcase Opening Night

News | On the 16 November, 4-8pm, the public are invited to see the best student work from across Auckland University of Technology’s School of Art and Design.

Indigenous knowledge to tackle climate change

Practice | A new podcast series from the NUWAO project, features AUT-led research into nature-based solutions to climate change, rooted in indigenous knowledges.

A course that will take you from design to business

News | The Design Thinking Business course at Victoria University of Wellington equips designers and architects with a business acumen and an entrepreneurial mindset.

Untroubled by theory

People | Mike Austin observes a recurring trend among thesis students where an emphasis on presentation and reference to exalted precedents has set a course for accepted design standards.

Globe-trotting professor

People | Nelson-based architect Jeremy Smith of Irving Smith Architects has been named the 2023 John G. Williams Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in Architecture.

Bringing the community and culture in

Projects | Abigail Hurst talks to Tennent Brown Architects about the difficult site, the cultural narratives and a new take on innovative learning environments in the design of Te Raekura Redcliffs School.

New Dean ushers in a focus on healthy buildings

People | Top healthy building expert, Robyn Phipps has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington.

Shaping a richer culture

Projects | Dorita Hannah explores Diocesan School for Girls’ basilica-like Performing Arts Centre by McIldowie Partners in association with Upton Architects and what it highlights about the value of theatre in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau.

Together but apart

Projects | Interior solutions were used in this Christchurch campus to co-locate two, single gender schools and mitigate an age-old battle of the sexes.

Of lollies and eloquent eyebrows

Projects | B405, the Jasmax-designed UoA Faculty of Engineering mothership, is a building of two halves. Chris Barton comes to terms with it: inside and out.

Collaborative campus

Projects | Jasmax’s new Western Springs College and Ngā Puna o Waiōrea Campus compiles spatially exciting buildings at a dramatic scale, but where all the ‘stuff’ has gone?