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Editorial: Chris Barton on a duty of care
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Architecture NZ editor Barton notes a lack of language regarding sustainability in our professional bodies’ codes. “Distressingly … there is no mention of climate change in the NZRAB’s code.”
Te Ao Mārama: A new order
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The second in our series: Chris Barton contemplates the new column-fins of Te Ao Mārama’s design and their connection to the nautilus shell spiral and the golden mean.
Editorial: Chris Barton on male architects
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Please no, not Alvar Aalto. Finnish female director Virpi Suutari’s brilliant examination, Aalto, lays bare some uneasy home truths about the man lauded as an icon of modernism.
The technology of the trees
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Chris Barton finds at Scion’s Innovation Hub, Te Whare Nui o Tuteata, in Rotorua – by RTA Studio, in collaboration with Irving Smith Architects – a showcase of radically new methods in multilevel timber construction and a benchmark for achieving net-zero embodied carbon.
Editorial: Chris Barton on rebuilding Christchurch
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Barton notes, “…the government received plenty of really good advice on what to do from a variety of people, notably the ‘Share an Idea’ urban planning community-involvement exercise … which the government mostly ignored.”
iPhone architecture
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Chris Barton explores what The Hotel Britomart’s seamless exterior, laneway labyrinth and deconstructed ethos by Cheshire Architects bring to Auckland’s evolving downtown precinct.
Editorial: Chris Barton on reversing climate change
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The Government and industry bodies are finally taking a policy stand on climate change in the built environment. Architecture NZ editor Barton explores how these compare and how they might play out.
Directional dimensions
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Chris Barton discusses the whys and wherefores of Warren and Mahoney’s design decisions for Auckland’s Commercial Bay office tower and retail precinct.
Gymnastics of the cross
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Chris Barton explores the religious expression embodied in the design of The Chapel of St Peter by Stevens Lawson Architects.
Editorial: Chris Barton on post-COVID environmentalism
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The Architecture NZ editor weighs in on experts’ claims that sustainable buildings will become mainstream in a post-COVID era.