Architecture NZ

Architecture New Zealand is the journal for New Zealand’s architects. For over fifty years it has been at the centre of the profession – keeping architects informed, inspired and engaged with reviews of the latest projects, insightful commentary on key issues and critical discussion of practice matters.

INTERIOR AWARDS 2024 • The Interior Awards are back. Save the date.

Architecture

Anatomy of a sinkhole

Some ideas about ideas

Is the system working?

Across the Board

OBITUARY: MARSHALL COOK FNZIA • Pip Cheshire and Lindley Naismith pay tribute to NZIA Gold Medal-winning architect and friend Marshall Cook.

ARCHITECTURE+WOMEN·NZ DULUX AWARDS 2023

WATERFRONT WONDERS

FOREVER AN EDUCATOR • Robin Skinner remembers heritage and contemporary architecture academic and enthusiast Michael Findlay (1959–2019) and his passion for mid-century modernism.

NEW AWAKENINGS

The evolution of Matter • Matter Architects’ founder Jonathan Smith looks back at 10 years of the practice and considers the importance of magic, making a moment and movie quotes.

COMMITTED TO QUALITY • When it comes to medium-density housing, Ōtautahi-based practice Sheppard & Rout has form. Amanda Harkness considers its latest project, Worcester Terraces.

Work

Communities of learning • Jasper van der Lingen investigates how extensive community consultation shaped the carefully layered communal forms of Christchurch’s new Te Aratai College by Architectus.

Vernacular adventure • On the upper reaches of Lake Wakatipu, RTA Studio and Bureaux go high concept with traditional types at The Great Glenorchy Alpine Base Camp. John Walsh reports.

Warm walls and good manners • Bill McKay visits Te Mātāwai, Kāinga Ora’s new mixedtenure, high-density social housing development in Auckland’s Greys Avenue by Mode Design.

LIV PATIENCE • Material Creative co-founder Liv Patience is known for the elegant, inspiring spaces she and her team create for clients around the world–;from residential to hospitality, workplace and more.

2023 New Zealand Architecture Awards

The Great Glenorchy Alpine Base Camp • With a commitment to sustainable design, RTA Studio and Bureaux have delivered clever, contemporary camping with simplicity and fun at its heart.

COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE AWARD

ENDURING ARCHITECTURE AWARD

HERITAGE ARCHITECTURE AWARD

Te Aratai College • Architectus has drawn on extensive community consultation, inclusivity, respect and a global awareness in shaping this ambitious campus rebuild.

EDUCATION AWARD

INTERIOR AWARD

HOSPITALITY AWARD

Omata Beach House • This highly crafted home by Herbst Architects is sympathetically embedded into the pristine landscape in a thoughtful and unimposing manner.

HOUSING AWARD

HOUSING–;MULTI-UNIT AWARD

HOUSING – ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS AWARD

PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN AWARD

Te Pae • Crosson Architects’ small but heroic lifeguard tower in the sand dunes is as much a coastal sculpture as it is an emblem of patrol and protection.

PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE AWARD

SMALL PROJECT AWARD

F. GORDON WILSON FELLOWSHIP

CONVENOR’S MESSAGE

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Neomodernism in New Zealand

Unfinished & Far Far Away: The Architecture of Irving Smith Architect

SAFE, EFFICIENT CARPARKING AND TURNTABLE SOLUTIONS • Car Parking Solutions founder Bob Haswell looks back at the introduction of mechanical car stacking and truck and car turntables to New Zealand in 2002 and finds these systems are as highly sought after now as they have ever been.

Old House: Drawing Interface

Urban Art...