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In favour of spiders
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Pip Cheshire considers the new and profound challenges presented by recent climate change and how best to deal with them.
The line between good and bad
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Karamia Müller believes that if beauty in architecture is attainable then so, too, should be equity.
Cartoon - Malcolm Walker ‘The Gantt Chart…’
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Cartoonist and Architect Malcolm Walker gives us his thoughts on the issues that matter.
Across the Board
Fisher & Paykel on the move
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Fisher & Paykel Appliances has released the design of its new global headquarters in Auckland’s Penrose.
Future dreaming
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Students studying Architecture have been called on to re-imagine Auckland’s Uptown district as part of a four-day Uptown Futures Festival held over Matariki.
A+W•NZ Dulux Awards 2023 - call for nominations
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Entries are now open for this unique awards event, aiming to celebrate and promote women in architecture, and those striving for greater diversity within the industry.
First stage of The Foundation nears completion
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The first stage of Generus Living Group’s latest high-end retirement village designed by Peddlethorp, The Foundation, is due for completion in September.
The Drawing Board
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Anthony Hōete watched Whakaata Māori’s The Drawing Board with Matilda Phillips and, together, they consider its narrative on the rise of Māori architecture.
Untroubled by theory
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Mike Austin observes a recurring trend among thesis students where an emphasis on presentation and reference to exalted precedents has set a course for accepted design standards.
The Voice of the Kōkōhau
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This year’s winning Brick Bay Folly, ‘Te Reo o te Hau’, ‘The Voice of the Kōkōhau’, asks us to listen to the voice of the wind and explore the kōrero it has with its surroundings.
Interiors
Interior Spaces: The good life
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Amanda Harkness talks to Spacecraft Architects about its first foray into co-housing and the happy end result.
Product
Material Focus: Arvida
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Stack Interiors has created a home with soul in the central-Auckland workplace of retirement community operator Arvida. We speak to designer Lauren Scott about the process.
Colour Collab: Tessa Pawson
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In this series brought to you by Resene, senior associate and interior design lead at Peddlethorp, Tessa Pawson, delves into her interior inspirations.
A study of light and dark
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This seaside home in Christchurch’s Sumner draws on both site and context for its exterior cladding, alluding to the ubiquitous driftwood at the nearby water’s edge.
Practice
Design for decolonisation
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Richard Francis-Jones considers the ways in which the industry can undo colonial architecture’s symbols and institutional instruments of oppression.
Work
Country manor come to town
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Pip Cheshire navigates the striking arrangement of formal and informal space at RTA Studio’s Zed House, located in the affluent suburb of Fendalton, in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
Sharing mātauranga Māori
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Deidre Brown tells the founding story of Te Taumata o Kupe, Te Mahurehure Marae, by TOA Architects.
Towards child-centred design
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Evžen Novák explores the structural and clinical complexities and patient focus of Wellington’s new children’s hospital Te Wao Nui — ‘The Great Forest’ by Studio Design + Architecture.
Solar gain
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Matthew Webby soaks in the sun, the water and the sustainability of Ōpuke Thermal Pools and Spa by Sheppard & Rout Architects.
Crit
Book review: Speculative Coolness: Architecture, Media, the Real, and the Virtual
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Daniel K Brown reviews Bryan Cantley’s latest book Speculative Coolness: Architecture, Media, the Real, and the Virtual, and believes it is a tour de force in speculative architectural representation.
Itinerary: Structon Group in Wellington
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Andrew Barrie and Ross Brown profile thirteen notable buildings produced by Structon Group in the city of Wellington in an effort to document the firm’s undeniable impact.
Book review: Henry Kulka
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Graeme Burgess reviews Henry Kulka, a book by Giles Reid and Mary Gaudin, and believes the book honours
Kulka’s contribution to the world of architecture and to architecture in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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