Responding to Auckland’s housing shortage and to concerns about the quality of medium-density housing in the ever-growing city, the New Zealand Institute of Architects is partnering with Ockham Residential to run a design competition for a multiunit residential development in a mixed-use area in inner-city Eden Terrace.

The competition, which calls for a design for a minimum of 25 apartments, will be judged by leading architects Richard Goldie (Peddle Thorp), Maggie Carroll (Bureaux), and Marshall Cook (Cook Sargisson & Pirie), together with Ockham Residential director Mark Todd and Auckland Council’s Jacques Victor. The winner will be commissioned by Ockham Residential to complete the design and realisation of the project.

The competition will proceed in two stages. First stage submissions are to be received no later than 4pm, Wednesday 18 June, 2014. Shortlisted finalists will be announced in July. The winner will be announced on 12 August, 2014.

Interested applicants may download the competition brief from the New Zealand Institute of Architects website.