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

Living history

The size of things

To review or to listen?

KEEPING WATCH

TE MATAPIHI UPGRADE SET TO PROCEED

HUGE HANGAR PROMOTES SUSTAINABILITY

FUTURE OF CHURCH UNCERTAIN

FROM TRENGROVE TO TOTEM

CHANGE AND CHALLENGE AHEAD • Anna Kellett speaks with incoming Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) President Judith Taylor (FNZIA).

Exploring and enriching the void • Boffa Miskell partners Rachel de Lambert and Michael Hawes reflect on the ways in which the environmental planning and design practice enriches the landscape and the life of a place, enabling people and nature to connect.

Work

Deeply inherent and indivisible • Hugh Tennent visits Massey University Wellington’s new marae, Te Rau Karamu, and finds a unique collaboration between Te Kāhui Toi and Athfield Architects.

Cultivating community • Jon Rennie visits Te Paataka Koorero o Takaanini, the Takaanini Community Hub, and finds Pacific Environments has eschewed conventional typologies within this Ignite base build and created a hub for the whole community.

Feel Māori, look Māori, be Māori • Karamia Müller visits Kōtukutuku Papakāinga, a Mahitahi Trust social housing project in Auckland’s Ōtara, and finds TOA Architects has created a place of special significance, which welcomes, protects and fosters connections.

SAM GRIFFIN • Design director at creative-led interior design studio CTRL Space, Sam Griffin believes that the power of a strong narrative is that it fosters creativity and generates new ideas – encouraging people to connect and enjoy social togetherness.

INTERIOR AWARDS 2022

Te Rau Karamu Marae • Massey University Wellington

Work Club Olderfleet

Ārepa

Seven

Forté Showroom

The Cabin

Eden View Kitchen

AUT Te Āhuru Recreation Centre

26 Aroha Ave

Raukura Turei

Finalists — Civic

ITINERARY_ Guide: Religious Buildings

Open Christchurch • Discover your city through architecture 30 April and 1 May 2022

Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects • Jonathan Boelkins, Peter MacKeith Princeton Architectural Press, 2022

WARMTH + HAPPINESS