Tag: Public | Architecture Now

Te Kōngahu / Museum of Waitangi

Projects | Harris Butt Architecture’s museum is a subtle addition to a cluster of important buildings that discuss New Zealand’s history.

One part of the whole: Rore Kāhu

Projects | Cheshire Architects’ Rore Kāhu, in the Bay of Islands, is a portal that propels its visitors out to distant historic sites.

Social spektrum

Review | Danish practice Spektrum Arkitekter discussed their socially-minded approach to architecture during the recent ‘City Talks’.

Designs of Melbourne's Metro Tunnel stations unveiled

Melbourne’s Metro stations unveiled

News | Grimshaw Architects, also behind Auckland’s CRL, has designed five new underground train stations for Melbourne Metro Tunnel.

Open conversation: Waitangi Museum

Projects | Exhibition design and architecture driven by lofty ideals of biculturalism and dialogue.

Is our past falling through the gaps?

Practice | An exploration of the uneasy relationship between the RMA and the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act.

Artistic license

Review | More than a pure receptacle for creativity, art museum architecture is often as much food for thought as the artworks inside.

The waka huia

Projects | Federico Monsalve speaks to Grant Harris of Harris Butt Architects about his recently completed Waitangi Museum.

Great Ape Centre

Projects | In Orana Wildlife Park, a team of designers, consultants and staff created a suitable home for our country’s only gorillas.

Impermanence

Review | Part of the 2015 Taranaki Garden Spectacular, this installation by designer Xanthe White explores the nature of change.

Last rites

Review | Contemporary funeral architecture is dignified and minimalistic, with spaces that engage with a fuller range of experience.

Christchurch Bus Interchange

Projects | Christchurch’s first civic building to be designed since the earthquakes is a bold and innovative bus station by Architectus.

Global Architecture in the 1970s

Calendar | Symposium, Wellington, 18 Mar 2016 to 19 Mar 2016
The School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington hosts this academic symposium as part of their 40th anniversary.

Fast Forward 2016: Autumn series

Calendar | Talk, Auckland, 2 Mar 2016 to 17 May 2016
This annual UoA lecture series features speakers from architecture, urban planning and urban design sectors. Runs 2–17 March.

Kore rawa e rawaka te reo kotahi

Practice | A conversation around the meanings and implications of the recent Making the Culturally Shared Landscape marae-based wānangas.

Modern transport: AMETI Panmure Interchange

Modern transport: Panmure Interchange

Projects | Opus Architecture’s elegant new interchange salutes the wonder of the new electric trains that whisk through Auckland.

Invercargill revives

Projects | Two urban rejuvenation projects have injected new life into the city: one in the CBD; the other a blue-collar neighbourhood.

Clean bill of health

Projects | The people of Kaikoura have a new integrated health facility, replacing the 100-year-old hospital.

Vital signs

Projects | Burwood Hospital’s redevelopment forms part of the largest hospital building project ever undertaken in New Zealand.

Civic pride: Kaiapoi Library

Projects | Brightly coloured and multifunctional, this building serves as the community services centre for a small Canterbury town.