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

Vive la différence

The kids are OK

Left behind: a Pacific story

NEW WORLD ARCHITECTURE

HIGH SCORER

MARITIME MAKEOVER

TE ARA ĀTEA OPENS

2021 WARREN TRUST ARCHITECTURAL WRITING AWARDS WINNERS

LATEST ADDITION TO DRAWING ARCHIVE

PWC TOWER TAKES PROPERTY AWARD

INTERIOR AWARDS 2022 ENTRIES OPENING SOON

HENRI SAYES • Auckland-based architect Henri Sayes founded Sayes Studio in 2016. A specialist in residential new builds and renovations, Sayes is known for his beautiful, bespoke work, which has earned local and national acclaim along with international media attention.

Inspiration by incident • Patrick Clifford reflects on what comprises the Architectus design process. He finds a heady mix of methods: from sociograms to serendipity, iterations, words generating spatial arrangements, co-design, collaboration, questioning the extent of the site and asking “why not?” to the primacy of the pin-up, to name a few.

Idea-building • Daniel K Brown reflects on the ways in which abstract, speculative architectural drawings can play an important role in contemporary professional practice.

Work

Jump with a twist • Guy Marriage investigates the flamboyant façade and innovative climbing formwork of The Pacifica, Auckland’s towering 56-floor apartment building by Plus Architecture.

A rock emerging from the depths • Jasper van der Lingen visits Patterson Associates Architects’ Ravenscar House Museum in Christchurch and finds a reawakening of the city’s past architectural pleasures.

With a little help from my friends • Jeremy Smith visits Strachan Group Architects’ My Whare, an initiative to help combat youth homelessness in conjunction with Visionwest, and finds these tiny dwellings are filled with aroha.

Ko au te awa, I am the river • In the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, Jasmax, in collaboration with Haumi, has brought the concept of kaitiakitanga to the world. Amanda Harkness investigates.

DESIGNING FOR DESERT DREAMS • Creating monumental façade and canopy structures for 50-degree heat, desert winds, sand and humidity, all within a sustainable frame and in a compressed timeframe for design, manufacture and installation, was quite the challenge – but one our architectural mesh could more than handle.

Guide: House museums

Architectural Drawings of Christ’s College

Toro Whakaara: Responses to our Built Environment

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