Finalists revealed – 2025 Interior Awards
See the thirty-one projects and three young influential designers that have been selected as finalists across 11 categories in the 2025 Interior Awards.
Material Focus: Spark Headquarters
Cachet Group was tasked with uniting the Spark team under one roof at 50 Albert Street in Auckland. Lead designer Saila Wang talks us through the 12,000m2 project.
Generous and dignified social housing
Jon Rennie visits Community Lane, Architectus’ recently completed development for Kāinga Ora in Auckland’s Avondale.
Meet Autex Acoustics - Sponsor of the Interior Awards 2025
Autex Acoustics is now in its third year of partnering with the Interior Awards.
Meet Big River Panels - Sponsor of the Interior Awards 2025
Big River Panels began its partnership with the Interior Awards in 2017 (as Decortech) and has supported the program ever since.
News
Essay from Bangladesh
Architects Jeremy Smith and Murali Bhaskar go looking for water and hard-to-find buildings in one of the world’s most populous mega-cities, Dhaka.
Sharing Hundertwasser’s legacy
Annabelle Smith enjoyed an early tour of Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s Kaurinui Valley home, soon to be opened to the public.
Architects, not Architecture debuts in New Zealand
Raphaela Rose attended the inaugural Architects, not Architecture event on Wednesday 2 April at Te Ao Mārama, Auckland War Memorial Museum, finding it to be a timely call to action for architects.
Yellow Post
This year’s winning Brick Bay Folly, Yellow Post, was unveiled last weekend at the Brick Bay Sculpture Park.
Projects
Generous and dignified social housing
Jon Rennie visits Community Lane, Architectus’ recently completed development for Kāinga Ora in Auckland’s Avondale.
Material Focus: Spark Headquarters
Cachet Group was tasked with uniting the Spark team under one roof at 50 Albert Street in Auckland. Lead designer Saila Wang talks us through the 12,000m2 project.
Crafted from timber and bubbles
Guy Marriage visits Porirua’s new food and events space, Kai Tahi, by Chris Moller Architecture + Urbanism and MacKay Curtis.
Review
Exhibition: Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators
Elisapeta Heta reviews Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators, a powerful reclamation of space.
Book review: The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education
Lynda Simmons reviews The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education, a book aimed at students, educators and practitioners insistent on change.
Itinerary City Guide: Levin
In this Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie tours 14 resilient buildings in Levin.
Practice
A reality check and a call to arms
Anthony Vile attended the New Zealand Green Building Council’s annual Housing Summit, where industry leaders were challenged to align and take action.
Joining forces for good
In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, the 2024 Gold Medal recipients Hugh Tennent and Ewan Brown reflect on the their collaborative architectural practice.
Radical responsibility
In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, ahha, a socially responsible architecture practice, discusses its aims and aspirations.
Awards
Watch here: Interior Awards 2025, Residential Kitchen finalists
Watch the Interior Awards finalist presentations in the Residential Kitchen category right here on ArchitectureNow.
Watch here: Interior Awards 2025, Emerging Design Professional finalists
Watch the Interior Awards finalist presentations in the Emerging Design Professional category right here on ArchitectureNow.
People
Some kind of miracle
Chris Barton wonders whether or not architecture can perform miracles and what it takes for an architect to become a saint.
Cartoon - Malcolm Walker ‘Upcoming seminars…’
Cartoonist and architect Malcolm Walker gives us his thoughts on the issues that matter.
Challenging gender norms in architecture
Josh Sanoria, winner of the 2024 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Resene Student Design Awards, explains his escapist, explorative thesis, Queeriosities of Space.
On death and the sublime
Pip Cheshire considers the challenges associated with judging a building, including assessing its ‘smell’.