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Three Wellington buildings designated as Category 1 heritage sites
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Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga has given its highest ranking to three historic buildings, including the Athfield-designed Central Library, for having exceptional significance.
Houses Revisited: A second life
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The original clients get back a Wellington house designed by the late Chris Brooke-White, one of the great characters of the 1970s, in this project feature from 2008.
Butterfly effect: Antipodes HQ
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A well-known art deco building in Wellington undergoes an internal metamorphosis in order to house this global skincare brand’s headquarters and retail space.
Houses Revisited: Sympathetic intervention
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We revisit a project from the March 2009 issue of Houses where Michael Fisher takes an Auckland art deco house through the rehab process.
Lessons in scale, proportion and materiality: Albert Villa
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This addition to a historic weatherboard cottage captures vistas from new living spaces arranged around a landscaped courtyard.
Cultural intangibles: UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation
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Andrew Irving reports from Penang on these awards, which honoured two New Zealand projects in 2019, and ponders what success means for a heritage project.
A lesson in collaboration: Sly Brothers Semi
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Taking a neighbourly approach to design and construction, this addition to a historic attached cottage preserves a connection to a coast-dwelling past.
Dam fine curve: Symonds Street Flats
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Julia Gatley delights in the dialogue between old and new in RTA Studio’s revitalisation of this Fred Newman building.
Return to splendour: St Mary’s Bay home
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This grand old home exudes a sense of plantation-style luxury: relaxed sunsets and textured, light-filled interiors.
Letting the light in: Hayward Gallery
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London’s famous Brutalist architectural icon, the Hayward Gallery in the Southbank Centre, gets transformed.
Honouring the old: Kauri Timber Building
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One of Auckland’s most important heritage buildings has been remodelled and complemented with a new commercial structure.
Creating new historic places
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David Batchelor, creator of Wellington City Heritage Week 2017, asks if we can purposefully create new historic places.
Transformation at Aotea Square
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Panuku Development has just announced plans for the Civic Administration Building in Aotea Square and the surrounding area.
Save John Scott’s Aniwaniwa Centre
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The NZIA are fighting DoC’s recent decision that the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre in Te Urewera National Park be demolished.
A testament to Le Corbusier
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UNESCO has added 17 projects in 7 countries by Modernist architect Le Corbusier to their World Heritage List.
Torin factory for sale
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The only Australian building designed by American modernist architect Marcel Breuer, in Sydney, has been listed for sale.
Is our past falling through the gaps?
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An exploration of the uneasy relationship between the RMA and the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act.
Public Trust well placed
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The fate of this heritage-listed building hung in the balance until a man with vision saw that it could be something special.
Vogel’s Revival
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In Dunedin’s long-forgotten heritage precinct, some locals are rejuvenating the city – from the inside out.
On the cusp of change
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Occupied in one form or other since 1845, the corner of Cuba and Dixon Streets is once again the centre of Wellington.