Tag: Public
RSSSydney Opera House’s ‘biggest upgrade’
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The NSW government has revealed working designs for a comprehensive upgrade of the World Heritage-listed Sydney Opera House.
Te Kōngahu / Museum of Waitangi
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Harris Butt Architecture’s museum is a subtle addition to a cluster of important buildings that discuss New Zealand’s history.
One part of the whole: Rore Kāhu
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Cheshire Architects’ Rore Kāhu, in the Bay of Islands, is a portal that propels its visitors out to distant historic sites.
Social spektrum
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Danish practice Spektrum Arkitekter discussed their socially-minded approach to architecture during the recent ‘City Talks’.
Melbourne’s Metro stations unveiled
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Grimshaw Architects, also behind Auckland’s CRL, has designed five new underground train stations for Melbourne Metro Tunnel.
Open conversation: Waitangi Museum
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Exhibition design and architecture driven by lofty ideals of biculturalism and dialogue.
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.
Artistic license
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More than a pure receptacle for creativity, art museum architecture is often as much food for thought as the artworks inside.
The waka huia
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Federico Monsalve speaks to Grant Harris of Harris Butt Architects about his recently completed Waitangi Museum.
Great Ape Centre
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In Orana Wildlife Park, a team of designers, consultants and staff created a suitable home for our country’s only gorillas.
Impermanence
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Part of the 2015 Taranaki Garden Spectacular, this installation by designer Xanthe White explores the nature of change.
Last rites
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Contemporary funeral architecture is dignified and minimalistic, with spaces that engage with a fuller range of experience.
Christchurch Bus Interchange
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Christchurch’s first civic building to be designed since the earthquakes is a bold and innovative bus station by Architectus.
Kore rawa e rawaka te reo kotahi
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A conversation around the meanings and implications of the recent Making the Culturally Shared Landscape marae-based wānangas.
Modern transport: Panmure Interchange
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Opus Architecture’s elegant new interchange salutes the wonder of the new electric trains that whisk through Auckland.
Invercargill revives
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Two urban rejuvenation projects have injected new life into the city: one in the CBD; the other a blue-collar neighbourhood.
Clean bill of health
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The people of Kaikoura have a new integrated health facility, replacing the 100-year-old hospital.
Vital signs
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Burwood Hospital’s redevelopment forms part of the largest hospital building project ever undertaken in New Zealand.