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.

Editorial

Architecture

CUSTOM STAINLESS SHOWER TRAYS • The Ultimate Allproof System for Tiled Showers

We do not live by bread alone

Our moral agenda

TĀKINA TAKING SHAPE

INTERIOR AWARDS 2021 AND DESIGNER OF THE DECADE

STIRRING MEMORIES

KATE NEWBY: YES TOMORROW

RAVENSCAR HOUSE RE-IMAGINED

MASTER OF MOTION • Len Lye curator at the Govett-Brewster, Paul Brobbel, looks at the acclaimed artist’s ongoing influence more than four decades after his death.

OBITUARY: MAURICE K SMITH September 1926 – December 2020 • Sir Bob Harvey remembers the University of Auckland School of Architecture graduate who became Professor Emeritus at MIT, Massachusetts, USA.

TRAVERSING THE DIGITAL-TO-ARTEFACT DIVIDE • Brick Bay Folly mentor Pip Cheshire considers the gap between the projected and the possible, and finds the winning entry, Genealogy of the Pacific, has bridged it deftly.

NATASHA MARKHAM • Founder of MAUD (Markham Architecture + Urban Design) and co-host of architectural podcast 76 Small Rooms, Natasha is currently working on bespoke projects for residential and commercial clients while analysing and reviewing urban areas undergoing change.

The land, the weather and No. 8 wire • Dave Strachan, recipient of the NZIA’s Gold Medal Award in 2020, reflects on the forces that have shaped his architectural practice.

GET THE LOOK ON YOUR WALLS

Work

A place of whakapapa • In Toto Whare, Bull O’Sullivan Architecture has created a home where generations come together to connect and bond. Jeremy Smith is captivated by its energy and generosity of spirit.

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The technology of the trees • 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.

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A vessel landed on another shore • Bill McKay discusses the arrival of the vaulted Tuvalu Christian Church in Henderson, West Auckland, designed by South Pacific Architecture.

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Cabinet of curiosities • Amanda Harkness explores the dramatic interior narrative, combining the exotic and eclectic with the comfortable, of Wellington’s Naumi Studio Hotel by Material Creative.

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ITINERARY_Guide: University buildings

EQUILIBRIUM IN INDIGENOUS DESIGN • NZIA Resene Student Design Award winner, for 2020, MArch (Prof) student Ben Tunui, of Te Herenga Waka Wellington School of Architecture, discusses the ways in which elements of contemporary tikanga can expand and enrich the spatial vocabulary of Māori architecture.

The Architecture of Peter Rich: Conversations with Africa

I Never Met a Straight Line I Didn’t Like

Christchurch Architecture: A Walking Guide

ARCHITECTURAL COVID