Tag: Partner content | Architecture Now

Colour Collab: Pippa Ensor

People | Ensor, an associate at Athfield Architects, has worked on projects across typologies and regions. Here, she takes colour inspiration from birds and their habitats.

Material Focus: Cuba Precinct

Projects | Athfield Architects associate Kim Salt discusses the thinking behind the fit-out of the NZIA-award-winning space for lead tenant Greater Wellington Regional Council.

Itinerary: University buildings

Review | For your Itinerary this month, Andrew Barrie and Julia Gatley look at educational buildings across the country from Dunedin to Hamilton and Auckland.

Colours for a new era

News | Dulux has released its colour forecast for 2022 with three palettes for a changed and changing world, informed by year-round research and engagement with specialists around the world.

Itinerary: Queenstown city guide

Review | We travel to Otago to compile this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux: a region rich with projects taking architectural risks and leaning on the landscape for inspiration.

Colour Collab: Ermanno Cattaneo

People | Originally trained as an architect, Cattaneo now works for Suzanne Turley Landscapes where he creates bespoke designs for clients throughout New Zealand. In this collab, he draws colour inspiration from his home village in Italy.

Itinerary: Tauranga city guide

Review | In this month’s Itinerary, we visit places of architectural intrigue in this rapidly growing North Island beach town. Works from big-city firms and local talent alike feature on our list of stops.

Sense of place: Michael Leng

People | Michael Leng, associate senior interior designer at Wingate Architects, creates a concept for an office lobby that is “honest, pure and grounded”.

The Brake House

News | Bremworth worked with the current owners of this iconic example of 1970’s Kiwi modernism to revitalise the interiors with natural, sustainable carpets.

A precinct on the rise: New community vision for Uptown

News | The demand for inner city-living and development around the new City Rail Link station is transforming the neighbourhood.

Itinerary: Libraries and community centres

Review | For this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux, Andrew Barrie and Julia Gatley take us to one of New Zealand’s first types of essential public buildings: libraries and community centres around the country.

Colour Collab: Paul Anselmi

People | This architect at Bull O’Sullivan Architecture creates a colourful work that is inspired by earth and art in this Colour Collab with Resene.

Colour Collab: Natasha Markham

People | We hear from Natasha Markham, Founder of MAUD (Markham Architecture + Urban Design) and co-host of architectural podcast 76 Small Rooms, about how a recent trip to Otago has inspired her thinking about colour.

A seamless swim: Mangonui escape

News | The bespoke design for this Northland swimming pool integrates with the landscape, allowing for a 7m-long infinity edge and uninterrupted views of Doubtless Bay.

It’s all about Weave

News | Designer Meg Sinclair discusses the origin and process behind the development of this new homewares brand focused on natural fibres with both residential and commercial applications.

Innovative plumbing for engineered timber buildings

Projects | When sustainable timber construction proves a challenge for installing conventional plumbing, Saniflo’s range of grey water pumps and lifting stations provides the ideal solution.

Watch: Behind the glass at Commercial Bay

News | This Woods Glass video goes behind the scenes at Auckland’s newest tower to discover the design behind the frameless glass canopy in the project’s lobby.

Colour Collab: Darryl Church

People | Founder of Rotorua-based design practice DCA Architects of Transformation discusses nature, context and the process of integrating colour into the studio’s projects rather than merely applying it.

Surface redefined

News | Partner content: Laminex New Zealand™ introduces the Alucci™ Collection, a next generation fusion of material and technology in ultra-matte surfaces. 

Colour Collab: Nick Eagles

People | The co-director of multidisciplinary design studio The Letter Q discusses collaboration, turning transience into sculpture and the importance of colour.