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.

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Across the Board

OBITUARY: LILLIAN CHRYSTALL, OBE (LILLIAN JESSIE LAIDLAW) 1/3/1926 – 24/2/2022 • Lillian Chrystall’s long and influential career in architecture has seen her become an important role model to many during her lifetime. As the first female architect to win a national-level award for a building in New Zealand in 1967, the first female Fellow of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) and the first female university studio tutor (1948 and 1949 at the Auckland University College School of Architecture – now the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning) – her effect has been particularly significant for female architects in Aotearoa.

PIONEERING A SECOND LIFE AND BEYOND • This year’s winning Brick Bay Folly, The Nest, was built almost entirely from recycled timber. Amanda Harkness talks to the team about the challenges this posed.

Shaping our collective Pacific future • Three good friends formed an architecture practice in 1992. Now, as Studio Pacific Architecture celebrates three decades in business, one of its founders – Evžen Novák – reflects on how the studio has become a cooperative enterprise in which multiple design approaches have flourished.

CRAIG MOLLER • A director at Auckland-based practice Moller Architects, Craig Moller, alongside his father Gordon, heads a team of 15. The studio’s work is wide-ranging, from the Sky Tower to chocolate factories, boat-building sheds, houses and hotels.

Work

The new net goes fishing • In the Auckland City Mission’s HomeGround, Stevens Lawson Architects has created a building of national significance, designed to support our most vulnerable with compassion and dignity. Bill McKay investigates.

Magical constraint • Richard Naish contemplates what makes a good house as he visits studio/LWA’s award-winning Our House in Westmere, Auckland.

Honed to shine • Abigail Hurst contemplates the multiple forces at play in Rolleston’s new multifunctional library, Te Ara Ātea by Warren and Mahoney.

He waewae pākura, from a solid footprint • Te Ari Prendergast contemplates the cultural intricacies of Tairāwhiti Gisborne Airport by Tennent Brown Architects in collaboration with Architects 44.

City Guide: Papaioea Palmerston North

EVERY TIME YOU TOSS IT, IT STANDS UP • The 2021 Resene Te Kāhui Whaihanga Student Design Award winner is Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka Unitec School of Architecture student Myint San Aung. Here, San discusses the project, which was informed by his experience of growing up in a Thai-Myanmar refugee camp.

Wellington Architecture • A Walking Guide

Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud • Why so many architects pretend to be philosophers and don’t care how buildings look

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