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Industry ready? Architectural graduates vs. technicians
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Joseph McAuley, former Director of NZIA’s Emerge programme, questions the status quo guiding architectural education in New Zealand asking “Are our graduates industry-ready”?
New category announced for this year’s Interior Awards
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This year sees the introduction of a new Education category to the Interior Awards, to recognise schools, universities and other learning facilities.
Communities of learning
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Jasper van der Lingen investigates how extensive community consultation shaped the carefully layered communal forms of Christchurch’s new Te Aratai College by Architectus.
AUT Art & Design Graduate Showcase Opening Night
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On the 16 November, 4-8pm, the public are invited to see the best student work from across Auckland University of Technology’s School of Art and Design.
Indigenous knowledge to tackle climate change
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A new podcast series from the NUWAO project, features AUT-led research into nature-based solutions to climate change, rooted in indigenous knowledges.
A course that will take you from design to business
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The Design Thinking Business course at Victoria University of Wellington equips designers and architects with a business acumen and an entrepreneurial mindset.
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.
Globe-trotting professor
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Nelson-based architect Jeremy Smith of Irving Smith Architects has been named the 2023 John G. Williams Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in Architecture.
Bringing the community and culture in
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Abigail Hurst talks to Tennent Brown Architects about the difficult site, the cultural narratives and a new take on innovative learning environments in the design of Te Raekura Redcliffs School.
New Dean ushers in a focus on healthy buildings
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Top healthy building expert, Robyn Phipps has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington.
Shaping a richer culture
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Dorita Hannah explores Diocesan School for Girls’ basilica-like Performing Arts Centre by McIldowie Partners in association with Upton Architects and what it highlights about the value of theatre in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau.
Together but apart
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Interior solutions were used in this Christchurch campus to co-locate two, single gender schools and mitigate an age-old battle of the sexes.
Of lollies and eloquent eyebrows
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B405, the Jasmax-designed UoA Faculty of Engineering mothership, is a building of two halves. Chris Barton comes to terms with it: inside and out.
Collaborative campus
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Jasmax’s new Western Springs College and Ngā Puna o Waiōrea Campus compiles spatially exciting buildings at a dramatic scale, but where all the ‘stuff’ has gone?
Cathedrals of learning
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Mary Henry reflects on three recent Jasmax tertiary education designs that respond to the evolution of the tertiary education sector.
Fresh palette: The Rabbit Patch
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Most childcare centres feature a rainbow of clashing colours and zany patterns, with a backdrop of practical necessities. Not in this one.
Old school revival
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Mark Southcombe explores the architectural legacy of Whanganui Collegiate School and its new additions by RTA Studio.
Poipoia te kākano kia puawai
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Guy Marriage explores the ways in which Tennent Brown Architects has helped nurture the Ngā Purapura kākano at Ōtaki to create Te Ara a Tāwhaki.
Teach the children well: Freemans Bay School
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From hospital to office, Dr Andrew Barrie traces the changing face of educational architecture.
Nelson Centre of Musical Arts
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An historic provincial concert hall and new teaching and rehearsal spaces draw talent and visitors from around the world.