Jeremy Smith

Home on the lease

Projects | Jeremy Smith investigates William Samuels Architects’ artfully constructed take on affordable housing, Studio House.

Book: Sheppard & Rout Architects Vol 1 1982–2021

Review | Jeremy Smith reviews the first volume covering Sheppard & Rout Architects’ first 39-years and contemplates the “a much-ado-about-everything calling” that is writing a book.

Suiting up: Marlborough Library and Art Gallery

Projects | Jeremy Smith investigates a new fashion statement in Blenheim’s combined library and art gallery, Te Kahu o Waipuna by Warren and Mahoney.

Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects

Review | A review of the new book by Jonathan Boelkins and Peter MacKeith, Princeton Architectural Press, 2022.

With a little help from my friends

Projects | Jeremy Smith visits Strachan Group Architects’ My Whare, an initiative to help combat youth homelessness in conjunction with Visionwest, and finds these tiny dwellings are filled with aroha.

Found in translation

Projects | Jeremy Smith samples the high life low down at the a r + d and Bossley Architects-designed Park Hyatt in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter.

Free range

Projects | Jeremy Smith discovers a small ‘mufti day’ in the search for housing when he visits a reworked flour mill by Malcolm Walker Architects.

Review: The Architecture of Peter Rich

Review | Jeremy Smith reads The Architecture of Peter Rich: Conversations with Africa and finds a conversation we can all learn from.

A place of whakapapa

Houses | In Toto Whare, Bull O’Sullivan Architecture has created a home where generations come together to connect and bond. Jeremy Smith is captivated by its energy and generosity of spirit.

Gallery house

Projects | Jeremy Smith discovers the Wrightmann House in Christchurch, where considered architectural curatorship by Athfield Architects has given every wall a voice.

Essay from India

Practice | Kiwi architect Jeremy Smith reports from the Indian Institute of Architects’ National Awards for Excellence in Architecture 2019.