Tag: Public | Architecture Now

Modesty and verve

Projects | Mark Southcombe visits the Toi Mahara gallery redevelopment in Waikanae by Athfield Architects and explores a beautiful dialogue between old and new.

The air we breathe

Watch | In this 60 Minutes broadcast, researchers have identified the crucial role of indoor air systems in curbing the spread of viruses, heralding in a new public health agenda.

Creating a ‘recycling unit’ from ‘recycled waste’

Practice | Warren and Mahoney has teamed up with Special Studio to design and deliver 70 bespoke 3D-printed e-waste deposit bins for One NZ (formerly Vodafone).

Wai Ariki lauded with highest honour at Best Design Awards

News | Rotorua’s new luxury spa Wai Ariki, has been nationally recognised for its innovative design, winning three accolades in this year’s Designers Institute Awards.

Towards meaningful reconciliation: Te Whare Hononga

Projects | Te Whare Hononga opens in New Plymouth.

Jasmax to design new Plant Health and Environment Laboratory

News | The new lab in Mt Albert, Auckland will help to safeguard New Zealand’s horticultural industry from costly pests and diseases that threaten our crops and food sources.

Projects | Guy Marriage negotiates the black diagrid structure and sinuous, muscular swoops of Tākina’s confectionary-coloured façade and finds plenty of attraction in Wellington’s new convention centre by Studio Pacific Architecture.

Sylvia Park precinct’s new outdoor living room

Projects | Woods Bagot and Peddlethorp, together with an urban design team from Boffa Miskell have reimagined the arrival to Sylvia Park Shopping Centre as an “outdoor living room”.

Large-scale reuse for new school campus

Projects | Having been badly hit by the 2011 Canterbury earthquakes, Marian College had to move to a temporary location. Nearly 10 years later, the school came up with a unique solution.

A taniwha awakes

Projects | Felicity Wallace contemplates the Te Matapihi Bulls Community Centre by Architecture Workshop and finds a building full of wonderful ideas – some, such as its adjacent public square, yet to be completed.

Whare meets verandah

Projects | In the Hihiaua Cultural Centre by Moller Architects, Mike Austin finds an example of modest, bicultural architecture, which is well-grounded in the local.

Te Ao Mārama: Exit at the hokohoko

Projects | In the last in our series, Amanda Harkness visits Te Ao Mārama’s retail and hospitality offerings, designed by Ignite in association with Studio Pasifika, and Jack McKinney Architects, and finds evidence of artful adaptation and reuse.

Te Ao Mārama: A new order

Projects | The second in our series: Chris Barton contemplates the new column-fins of Te Ao Mārama’s design and their connection to the nautilus shell spiral and the golden mean.

Te Ao Mārama: Ripe and bursting at the seams

Projects | Albert Refiti discusses the vitality of naming, the cross-cultural myth-histories and the moana architecture of this makeover by Jasmax, FJMT and designTRIBE at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

First look: Auckland War Memorial Museum South Atrium

Projects | Take a look inside Te Ao Mārama, the South Atrium of the Auckland museum, which has been closed for 18 months and prepares to open its doors to the public on 3 December.

Gymnastics of the cross

Projects | Chris Barton explores the religious expression embodied in the design of The Chapel of St Peter by Stevens Lawson Architects.

COVID consciousness: Keeping it clean

Review | The pandemic has raised a collective anxiety about how to share public spaces – an anxiety heightened in the most intimate of settings: the public toilet. Sarah Bookman examines some solutions.

Meeting under chevron hoods

Projects | Jeremy Smith contemplates the intricate origami planes of the Nelson Airport Terminal and ascends to the Cab of its trapezoid Control Tower.

Making knowledge public

Practice | In this excerpt from the second volume of the Radical Futures series, Public Knowledge, Barnaby Bennett explores the ability of physical spaces to make publics manifest.

Justice and Emergency Services Precinct

Projects | Being open and even a little friendly, Christchurch’s latest public building inverts the norm for justice buildings.