Adapting with nature

Adapting with nature

People | Isthmus Group’s Helen Kerr spoke at the 2024 World Green Infrastructure Congress about the regenerative role of green infrastructure in helping communities grow, change and adapt.
Finding a public voice

Finding a public voice

People | Opinion: Pip Cheshire believes architects should be at the vanguard of those giving voice to improve our environment, and that the Institute should be their megaphone.
Green commons

Green commons

Projects | John Walsh visits the Toiora High Street Cohousing project in Ōtepoti Dunedin, by Architype, and finds a connection to a timeless tradition of shared space.
The technology of the trees

The technology of the trees

Projects | Chris Barton finds at Scion’s Innovation Hub, Te Whare Nui o Tuteata, in Rotorua – by RTA Studio, in collaboration with Irving Smith Architects – a showcase of radically new methods in multilevel timber construction and a benchmark for achieving net-zero embodied carbon.
Can we afford healthy homes?

Can we afford healthy homes?

Practice | Respond Architects’ Joe Lyth takes his own house as a case study on creating warm, dry homes on a budget and explores the reasons why the health of a home isn’t always a priority.