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Chris Barton wonders when the profession will fully address the urgent imperatives facing the industry.
Andrew Barrie profiles fifteen notable buildings in the city of Whangārei, including a collection of interesting public buildings that presents some key paths forward.
Marian Macken finds captivating portraits by Jane Ussher of over 300 interiors, with text from John Walsh providing an intriguing biography about each space.
Isaac Sweetapple reviews the University of Auckland installations for Urban Art Village 2022 and finds the installations were unabashedly of the present.
Stuart Niven considers Guy Marriage’s latest book Medium, on medium-density housing in Aotearoa.
Isaac Sweetapple attends his first-ever architecture conference.
In this instalment, learn more about one of David Trubridge’s most celebrated lighting designs — the Navicula — and its connection to our largest ecosystem.
Kathy Waghorn writes on a book that tells the stories of more than 500 women and delivers the message ‘We are here – we exist – we are strong – and you are one of us.
Chris Barton considers King Charles III’s influence on architecture to date and finds it’s not all bad.
In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie looks at the hospitality and commercial projects of architect Jack McKinney.
World-renowned designer David Trubridge believes we must decolonise our mindset and indigenise architecture, learning to think more like trees and design like nature.
A team from Wingate Architects who attended this year’s Orgatec trade fair, held 25-29th October in Cologne, share what’s in store for the working world.
We review the best apps for quick 3D mock-ups, layered multimedia sketching, real-time rendering, immersive visualisation and more…
David Turner writes on an often overlooked housing typology in New Zealand, and lays out why the courtyard housing type deserves a look.
ArchitectureNow’s Editor Jacinda Rogers, curates a selection of eleven films on Shelter, a new streaming platform on everything architecture.
Michael O’Sullivan of Bull O’Sullivan Architecture delivered this year’s Futuna Lecture. Watch it here.
Vanessa Coxhead believes Edmund Bohan’s Heart of the City is the closest we will come to the walls of the cathedral talking.
The largest design fair of this year’s London Design Festival, Design London, returned to Magazine London in North Greenwich for its second edition.
In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie and Donna Luo explore the architectural evolution of Whakatū Nelson.
Bill McKay reviews the latest book on Austrian architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser and finds it has much to offer.
‘Whakaora Our Thriving City’ the one-day urban design regeneration wānanga held in Auckland recently went beyond cookie-cutter solutions, Lucie Greenwood writes.
A review of the new book by Jonathan Boelkins and Peter MacKeith, Princeton Architectural Press, 2022.
Behind the Object: We talk to Melany-Jayne Davies, one-half of the husband-and-wife design team at Tréology, about the process of creating a desk reminiscent of Milford Sound.
We partnered with American Standard to share what their Design Catalyst L!VE speakers had to say in approaching sustainable building inside and out.
Two art exhibitions at Te Wāhanga Waihanga-Hoahoa interweave themes of politics, economics, culture and ecology, writes Luke Mayall.
Abigail Hurst joined Open Christchurch – the opening of 41 buildings, 23 activities and four guided walks to the public - on 30 April and 1 May 2022.
A new book by artist and designer David Trubridge, The Other Way is a profound meditation on our relationship to the natural world.
Te Tangi a te Manu — Aotearoa New Zealand Landscape Assessment Guidelines are set to become a key resource for professionals working in resource management.
Bec Snelling of Snelling Studio (formerly Douglas and Bec) reveals the inspiration and processes behind their latest lighting collection — Lens.
Behind the Object: Lulu Stool. Jacinda Rogers talks to Matt Watkins of Special Studio to discover the process behind the creation of their newest 3D-printed creation, the Lulu Stool.
Mike Austin reviews Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud: Why so many architects pretend to be philosophers and don’t care how buildings look by Branko Mitrović.
John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds’ have published their new walking guide to 120 of Wellington’s most interesting buildings.
In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie and Julia Gatley explore the provincial architecture of Papaioea Palmerston North.
Due to both its early prominence and ongoing wealth, New Plymouth is unlike many other provincial New Zealand cities in that its townscape was made largely by architects who lived there.
With its origins in the practice formed by William Mason (1810–1897) in Dunedin in 1862, Mason & Wales is New Zealand’s oldest architectural practice.
Chris Barton finds Truth and Lies in Architecture to be “both confronting and inspiring in its scope, capturing perfectly the enormity and terror of the architect’s task”
Community-led alternative development models offer solutions to some of the biggest problems that Aotearoa’s citizens are facing today, including limited diversity of housing choices, affordability and increased social isolation.
Pip Cheshire finds Sir Miles Warren and Alec Bruce’s collection of architectural drawings, accompanied by “erudite commentary and fine observations”, also tells a story of the evolution of drawing.
In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Sebastian Clarke visits New Zealand’s house museums: those places committed to the memory and presentation of bygone New Zealand spaces for living.
Lynda Simmons finds a successful reframing of the works of already well-published artists Colin McCahon and Paul Dibble and architect Jim Hackshaw.