Chris Barton

Editorial: Chris Barton on COVID-era architecture

Practice | The effects of healthy obsessions on architecture can be profound. The challenge for architects now will be creating something that also deals with fear: something inspirational and uplifting.

Of lollies and eloquent eyebrows

Projects | 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.

Editorial: Chris Barton on monuments

Practice | “If architecture is to play a part in this transformation [of problematic public monuments], it’s also necessary to build anew, rather than just demolish.”

Garden party: Metlifecare Gulf Rise

Projects | Due to COVID-19, no site visits were allowed at this innovative retirement living facility at the time of writing. But Chris Barton perseveres and is captivated by the space.

Editorial: Chris Barton on the way forward

Practice | “Of the many insights COVID-19 brings, the realisation that our economy is built as a house of cards is one of the more sobering.”

Happy Days domain

Projects | Chris Barton explores DKO Architecture’s mix of terraced and apartment living at a former quarry site in Auckland’s Mount Wellington.

Transforming timber

Projects | We look at an innovative New Zealand-made timber pavilion, slated to appear at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy.

Editorial: Chris Barton on complacency

Practice | Architecture New Zealand editor Chris Barton muses on the creation of a ‘Museum of Head-in-the Sand Climate Change Complacency’.

Cool store collection

Projects | Engage with Irving Smith Architects’ freezer-panel-encased refurbishment of the Whakatāne District Museum and Research Centre, Te Whare Taonga ō Taketake

Editorial: Chris Barton on giving back

Practice | Chris Barton discusses a recent declaration by one architecture firm to strive for carbon neutrality and the lack of such aims by Kiwi firms.