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COLORSTEEL® Awards winners announced for 2023

Awards | The Awards recognising excellence in architecture & roofing named eight winners in a celebration of workmanship, innovation, design, and energy efficiency.

Laminex: New awakenings

People | Kairangi Ama, Interior Designer at Woods Bagot, collaborates with Laminex, creating contemplative and earthy still lifes featuring their new range of Italian porcelain surfaces.

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.

Packed summit welcomes new advocacy push

News | Hundreds of people packed into Te Pae, for an innovative, progressive and unmissable event within the industry calendar.

APT’s 2023 Innovation in Design Awards: Winners announced

Awards | APT celebrated ten years in business at a conjoint party in Auckland where the 2023 Innovation in Design Awards winners were announced.

Positivity and warmth radiate through colour

News | This year’s colour trends reflect an inner desire for positivity and spaces that nurture within our homes. The team at Dulux provide a comprehensive colour forecast for 2024.

The ‘hotelisation’ of office spaces

Projects | Post-pandemic, workplaces are focusing on generating wellbeing through attractive and comfortable design by incorporating amenities more typically found in hotels.

Global design leaders heading to Auckland for AGI Open

News | Taking place 18–19 September 2023, the Open presents a unique opportunity to see Paula Scher, Kenya Hara and other influential designers in this ‘once-in-a-generation’ event.

Calibre. A new design standard.

News | Gerard Roofs launches contemporary, streamlined steel roof panel system, Calibre.

Interior Spaces: A balancing act

Projects | Amanda Harkness looks at Klein’s new Cardiac Catheter Laboratory for Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau and finds there’s a lot going on behind the scenes.

Interior Spaces: The good life

Projects | Amanda Harkness talks to Spacecraft Architects about its first foray into co-housing and the happy end result.

Dispelling modular myths & misconceptions

Products | Modular barrier systems offer code compliance, easy installation, and flexible design and aesthetic options. Our friends at Moddex address the sceptics in their new guide.

A study of light and dark

Projects | This seaside home in Christchurch’s Sumner draws on both site and context for its exterior cladding, alluding to the ubiquitous driftwood at the nearby water’s edge.

An unmissable Keynote at BuildNZ

News | ‘Navigating Better Māori Design Integration within our Built Environment’, features Debbie Tikau, Director of Tipu Design and Huia Ketiri, Director of +MAP Architecture and NZIA President-elect.

Locally-made flooring product supports New Zealand’s environment

Projects | A collaboration between architects Sheppard & Rout, and flooring supplier GH Commercial, champions New Zealand wool carpet tiles for Lincoln’s Agricultural Sciences Building.

Material Focus: Gulf Rise

Projects | Metlifecare’s latest offering, Gulf Rise, recently opened its clubhouse at the heart of the coastal village. Urban Lounge’s lead designer, Katherine Lennox, tells interior editor of Architecture New Zealand about the interior design studio’s thinking behind the communal spaces.