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Category

Commercial / public buildings Landscape / urban design Construction Interiors

Type

Commercial Culture / arts Religious Education Theatres Universities / colleges Alts and adds Bridges Museums Refurbishment Sport Visitor centres Adaptive re-use Libraries Parks Retail Temporary

City

Auckland Wellington Christchurch Napier Otorohanga Palmerston North Rotorua

Year completed

2012
  • Public / civic
Just hit play

Just hit play

Hawkins Construction

A purpose-built community centre resolves a 20-year need for the youth of Glen Innes.

Commercial / public buildings
Rising again

Rising again

Higgs Construction

The 13-month rebuild of Christchurch’s historic Knox Church was a complex project.

Commercial / public buildings, Construction
Kaikoura’s treasure

Kaikoura’s treasure

Kaikoura District Council

This ‘craypot’ building is constructed entirely in timber and is the first in the world to use shear walls of CLT and LVL.

Commercial / public buildings, Construction
MTG Hawke’s Bay

MTG Hawke’s Bay

Opus

Opus Architecture has amalgamated a complex series of buildings from different eras on Napier’s 150-year-old museum site.

Commercial / public buildings
The Surf Club at Muriwai

The Surf Club at Muriwai

Jasmax

Muriwai’s new surf lifesaving clubhouse, designed by Jasmax, is set 300m back from its rapidly eroding coastline.

Commercial / public buildings
Victoria University of Wellington Campus Hub and Library

Victoria University of Wellington Campus Hub and Library

Athfield Architects, Architectus

Architectus and Athfield Architects have joined forces to design an educational complex.

Commercial / public buildings
Locked in

Locked in

Canam Construction

The new police headquarters in Rotorua merges culture and innovation, and develops the application of PRESSS technology.

Commercial / public buildings, Construction
ASB Theatre

ASB Theatre

Archoffice

Reworking of this 20-year-old theatre has received rapturous applause from those that play there.

Commercial / public buildings, Interiors
Sir Paul Reeves Building

Sir Paul Reeves Building

Jasmax

Interior visits the future of tertiary education at AUT University’s high-tech development.

Commercial / public buildings, Interiors
Westpac

Westpac

Context Architects

Context Architects’ free-range designs for Westpac on Queen Street.

Commercial / public buildings, Interiors
Christchurch  Civic Building

Christchurch Civic Building

Athfield Architects

Athfield Architects has succeeded in giving the building an open-hearted civility and a conscience.

Commercial / public buildings
Fo Guang Shan Pagoda

Fo Guang Shan Pagoda

Warren and Mahoney

Architecture as landscape is the principle that guided Warren and Mahoney’s Buddhist pagoda for a temple in Auckland.

Commercial / public buildings
Te MiruMiru

Te MiruMiru

Phil Smith Architects

Phil Smith designs a childcare centre that is literally embraced by the earth.

Commercial / public buildings
Broadcast Tower

Broadcast Tower

Copeland Associates Architects

Copeland Associates Architects’ Tower at Auckland’s North Harbour Stadium may be “just a box but it’s a box done well”.

Commercial / public buildings
Te Koputu a Te Whanga a Toi – Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre

Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre

Irving Smith Jack Architects

Irving Smith Jack Architects’ adaptive reuse of a former Briscoes retail box has given the abandoned building new life.

Commercial / public buildings
ASB Sports Centre

ASB Sports Centre

Tennent + Brown Architects

Tennent + Brown Architects’ community sports centre in Wellington deals with its harsh environs with aplomb.

Commercial / public buildings
Striking suspension

Striking suspension

Frame Group

A 141-metre back country suspension bridge is the longest of its kind to be built in New Zealand since 1926.

Construction
River Lane, Waiuku

River Lane, Waiuku

Reset Urban Design

Reset Urban Design puts in place a number of intitiatives to turn Waiuku back to the river.

Landscape / urban design
University of Auckland: Arts 1 redevelopment

UoA: Arts 1 redevelopment

RTA Studio

A building designed by Ivan Mercep of JASMaD in the early ‘80s has been seamlessly refurbished by RTA Studio.

Commercial / public buildings
Cobblestone Park

Cobblestone Park

Wraight + Associates

A small Wellington park gets revised for a new generation of urban use.

Landscape / urban design
Wai-atarau Plaza

Wai-atarau Plaza

Boffa Miskell

Boffa Miskell ventures under the bridge and works up a public plaza in a tricky position.

Landscape / urban design
Nga Purapura, Te Wananga o Raukawa

Nga Purapura, Te Wananga o Raukawa

Tennent + Brown Architects

Tennent + Brown Architects have realised the metaphorical essence of Te Whare Tapa Wha.

Commercial / public buildings
Holy Family Catholic Church

Holy Family Catholic Church

Sarah Scott Architects

With vistas across Lake Wanaka to the Southern Alps, Sarah Scott Architects’ elegant church offers a sense of occasion.

Commercial / public buildings
Te Mirumiru

Te Mirumiru

Phil Smith Architects

Phil Smith Architects’ child-care centre in Kawakawa is an embodiment of kaitiakitanga or care for the environment.

Commercial / public buildings
Taurarua Judges Bay

Taurarua Judges Bay

Reset Urban Design

Pontoons, a pier, boardwalk and sand-covered beach are just some of the citizen-friendly interventions at Judges Bay.

Landscape / urban design
Royal Society impressed with PRESSS

Royal Society impressed with PRESSS

The Fletcher Construction Company

This project incorporates the latest in seismic design technologies.

Construction
Te Ara Alexandra stream cycle path

Te Ara Alexandra stream cycle path

Bradbury McKegg Landscape Architecture

Stage one of transportation network for the North Shore of Auckland – connecting parks, reserves and backyards.

Landscape / urban design
Westchester Drive extension

Westchester Drive extension

Posted: 11 May 2012

This extension in Wellington comprises two bridges, a stream, steep terrain and retaining walls.

Construction
The Shed by Fulton Ross Team Architects

The Shed

Fulton Ross Team Architects

The Court Theatre was one of many Christchurch institutions made homeless in the February earthquake.

Commercial / public buildings
Lorne Street by Architectus

Lorne Street by Architectus

Posted: 3 Apr 2012

A pedestrian-favouring gathering space that frees the Auckland Public Library from its narrow confines.

Landscape / urban design
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