Workplace | Architecture Now

Mediation meditation: Lyttelton Port Company

Projects | A careful negotiation of waterfront access and industrial relations is contained in this commercial space.

Customhouse chameleon: XXCQ tower

Projects | This work sets a new standard on Wellington’s shaky waterfront ground. Guy Marriage dissects the building’s DNA.

Ground control: Rocket Lab

Projects | Rocket Lab’s new Auckland headquarters boasts a good dollop of theatre, science fiction and the very serious business of sending satellites into space. We set out to discover how its interior design copes with the very unique brief.

Desk with a view: Generator Britomart

Projects | Amanda Harkness tours this co-working space to find what makes it different from the brand’s previous iterations.

Terracotta trope: The Beehive

Projects | This Surry Hills architect’s studio is a poetic exploration of the aesthetic and structural potential of recycled materials.

Flux and flair: Public Library

Projects | Very little is bolted to the ground in this fashion sales and PR firm. Resulting in an evolving and edgy space

Creative collisions: GridAKL

Projects | Step inside GridAKL, New Zealand’s first and largest co-working campus, located in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter.

Golden age of travel: Online Republic

Projects | Seeking to reflect their corporate culture, this new workplace takes staff on a vacation to the heyday of travel.

The Waterdog

Projects | This heritage-listed chapel has transformed into a new work and event space with a striking new stacked-box composition.

Ring the deal bell

Projects | Commercial property owner and developer Goodman delivers a sustainable new workspace for its own deal-makers.

Looking ahead: skills for the future

Practice | Ignite Architects’ Adam Taylor addresses the architecture skills shortage in New Zealand and what firms can do to help.

Home-ing from work

Review | Airbnb opens the doors to its Parisian headquarters and shows how residential a workplace can really be.

Weaving tradition

Projects | Māori Television’s new headquarters sought to weave the broadcaster’s DNA into the building fabric.

Dancing at your desk

Review | ArchitectureNow editor Amelia Melbourne-Hayward reviews Varidesk’s sit-stand desk, the ProPlus 36.

Sounding out TVNZ’s state-of-the-art refit

Practice | Acoustics engineer Christian Vossart writes on creating optimal acoustics design in TVNZ’s newly refitted headquarters.

Think sleek

Projects | Camille Khouri checks out Sugar Lane Studio: a malleable space for multiple work environments.

The aspiring lawyer

Projects | The contemporary reinvention of Russell McVeagh, one of New Zealand’s oldest legal firms, has broken age-old legal hierarchies.

All in the family

Projects | Camille Khouri discovers a multi-disciplinary studio that designed its own home and handcrafted a large portion of its interior.

Legal matters

Review | Camille Khouri looks at several memorable, recent legal or law-related workplaces from across New Zealand.

Humanity and the machine

Review | Camille Khouri reports from this year’s CoreNet Symposium, which focused on the future of work and technology.