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Rethinking awards
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Chris Barton wonders when the profession will fully address the urgent imperatives facing the industry.
A rumination on place
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Pip Cheshire considers the duelling of emotions and uncertainties in the practice of architecture, and ruminates on the importance of cultivating imagination in practice.
Before there was dank, there was Frank
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Karamia Müller calls for more irony, cynicism and criticality over beauty, earnestness and elitism upon revisiting the architectural satire account: @dank.lloyd.wright.
Cartoon - Malcolm Walker ‘The Thinker…’
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Cartoonist and Architect Malcolm Walker gives us his thoughts on the issues that matter.
Across the Board
A+W.NZ Tātuhi Drawing Archive selection
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This year’s drawing archive selection is Lise Jansen-Luke’s drawing ‘Sea Wall Erosion’, a contemplation on the environment, transference, loss, and production.
Student Design Awards
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The 2022 winners of the NZIA Student Design Awards have been announced, with top projects awarded to students from across Auckland’s architecture schools.
New publication: Shifting Foundations
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Several members of the NZIA, along with other city-makers, have published a book documenting architecture in Ōtautahi Christchurch following the 2010–2011 earthquakes.
F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship announced
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Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects and the family of F. Gordon Wilson have established the F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship.
Practice
Haumi ē! Hui ē! Tāiki ē! Becoming great ancestors
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TOA Architects’ founder Nicholas Dalton has a vision that, by 2040, all its architects will be fluent in te reo Māori and other firms will overhaul their policies to honour te Tiriti.
Revisiting the Aaltos
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Pete Bossley tours Finnish architecture and design, using drawing as thinking to uncover its power.
Profile
Colour Collab: Mark Gascoigne
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With a background in theatre and music, Mark Gascoigne switched things up by deciding on a career in architecture.
Work
An atmosphere of recovery
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Dorita Hannah visits Klein Architects’ transformative Acute Mental Health Inpatient Unit, Tiaho Mai, and discovers a new era in therapeutic design.
Channelling that ’70s’ vibe
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West Plaza, Neville Price’s elegant aerofoil, is renamed 1 Albert Street and its podium has a much needed
Makeover by Ignite Architects.
Accounting for carbon
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Amanda Harkness investigates Studio Pacific Architecture’s adaptive re-use of Brandon House and finds a makeover that delivers some impressive sustainability credentials.
Under the folds of the rock
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In Karekare Surf Lifesaving Club by Richard Priest Architect, in association with 106 Architects, Sir Bob Harvey finds a modest building designed to merge with its majestic setting.
Crit
Itinerary City Guide: Whangārei
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Andrew Barrie profiles fifteen notable buildings in the city of Whangārei, including a collection of interesting public buildings that presents some key paths forward.
Book review: The New Queensland House
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Christopher Kelly reviews the large-format book, edited by Cameron Bruhn and Katelin Butler, and finds it offers plenty on which Kiwis can make use of, in our burgeoning cities.
Review: Medium
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Stuart Niven considers Guy Marriage’s latest book Medium, on medium-density housing in Aotearoa.
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