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.

Architecture New Zealand

Editorial

On confusion

Ecstasy and equity

Across the Board • Architectural news and views

GROWING UP, NOT OUT: A REVIEW OF OPEN CHRISTCHURCH • Fritha Powell took to her bike to visit as many architectural projects as she could when the city of Christchurch opened its doors to the public in mid-May.

Michael Leng • Associate Senior Interior Designer Wingate Architects

Six Storey Love Song • Matthew Paetz grapples with new density controls in the National Policy Statement on Urban Development 2020 (NPS-UD), perhaps the most significant government policy for cities in Aotearoa New Zealand of the past 30 years.

Work

Walking backwards • While he misses some of the grunge and graffiti patina, Mark Southcombe finds the essential character of Wellington’s Cuba Street in Athfield Architects’ remaking of the Farmers Building and adjoining buildings to be a sensitive bridging of time and a weaving of new architectural layers with the old.

Free range • Jeremy Smith discovers a small ‘mufti day’ in the search for housing when he visits a reworked flour mill by Malcolm Walker Architects.

A taniwha awakes • Felicity Wallace contemplates the Te Matapihi Bulls Community Centre by Architecture Workshop and finds a building full of wonderful ideas – some, such as its adjacent public square, yet to be completed.

ERMANNO CATTANEO • Originally trained as an architect, Italian designer Ermanno Cattaneo works for Suzanne Turley Landscapes, where he creates bespoke residential landscapes and the occasional smallscale architecture project for clients throughout New Zealand.

INTERIOR AWARDS 2021 • PRESENTED BY ARCHITECTURE NZ MAGAZINE, THE INTERIOR AWARDS RECOGNISE EXCELLENCE IN COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR DESIGN.

Te Ao Mārama • Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum

PwC Tower Sky Lobby at Commercial Bay • CBD, AUCKLAND —

MinterEllison-RuddWatts Auckland Office Fit-out • CBD, AUCKLAND —

The Hotel Britomart • CBD, AUCKLAND —

Comvita Wellness Lab • CBD, AUCKLAND —

Toto Whare • UPHAM TERRACE, LYTTELTON —

Hong Kong-inspired Kitchen • WAIRAU VALLEY, AUCKLAND —

O-Studio • CENTRAL CHRISTCHURCH —

Elisapeta Heta • PARNELL, AUCKLAND —

Finalists — Workplace (up to 1000m2)

Finalists — Civic

Finalists — Hospitality

Finalists — Retail

Finalists — Residential

Finalists — Residential Kitchen

Finalists — Healthcare and Wellness

Finalists — Emerging Design Professional

Guide: Queenstown

Exhibition • Tai Moana Tai Tangata

Exhibition • Pouwatu: Active Presence

Book • Making Ways: Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa

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