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Opinion: Making room
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Lynda Simmons on removing barriers and making room for differing ways of practicing in the architecture industry.
Opinion: Beatific urban farmers
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Pip Cheshire on reuse, reoccupying, reconfiguring and the power of architects to facilitate such things.
Editorial: Chris Barton on short-termism
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Architecture New Zealand editor Chris Barton comments on the need for a plan with longevity for Auckland’s waterfront.
Opinion: When architects speak
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Pip Cheshire muses over the difficulty in speaking about architectural work and implores us to stop writing “the brief called for…”
Opinion: The issue of unpaid hours
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Lynda Simmons discusses how the hours spent ‘working’ and ‘caring’ are divided and how that might affect architecture practices.
Opinion: Prefab consenting needs to change
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Peddle Thorp’s Manuel Diaz comments on the pitfalls of the consenting process surrounding prefabricated building and what could change in the future.
Editorial: Chris Barton on longevity
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The Architecture New Zealand editor discusses the closing of the Wellington Central Library and what the future holds for this iconic building.
Opinion: Doctrinaire doodahs
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Pip Cheshire considers the value of character areas and their role as an exemplar of early occupation and of our history made manifest.
Opinion: Empty architecture
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Lynda Simmons considers the separation of land ownership from building ownership and the guardianship model of tangata whenua.
Editorial: Taking it outside
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Chris Barton explores how taking the fight against terrorism outside can reclaim both public and sacred space.
Opinion: The housing train
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Former president of the NZIA and gold medal recipient Pip Chesire considers the industry’s role in our housing crisis.
Opinion: Loss and Libraries
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Lynda Simmons examines the pending closure of the Architecture and Planning Library at The University of Auckland.
Taking notes from Japan
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The New Zealand government’s Minister of Housing, Chris Bishop, has very publicly professed admiration for the Japanese urban planning system. Matthew Paetz looks at what might be lost in translation.
Save the Begonia House: Our built heritage deserves better
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Opinion: Architect Roger Walker is calling for the Wellington Botanic Garden’s Begonia House to be spared from demolition.