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Awards | John Scott, surely a hero of all architects down here and at the end of all our far far away rainbows, referred to himself as “just an architect sorting out problems and trying to say what is relevant t...

Southern Architecture Awards 2025: Shortlist announced

Awards | Thirty-one projects have been shortlisted in the 2025 Southern Architecture Awards. The shortlisted projects were selected from entries in the awards programme of the Southern Branch of Te Kāhui Whaih...

Itinerary City Guide: Levin

Review | Many of the most noteworthy buildings produced across Levin’s history have since been demolished: the Carnegie library, a John Campbell-designed post office, churches, a modern hospital and several gene...

John Scott-designed Hawke’s Bay home goes up for sale

News | A 1988 home designed by legendary New Zealand architect John Scott has recently been put up for sale in Havelock North. This three-bedroom, two-bathroom home is on the market for the first time in 25 ye...

2024 John Scott Award for Public Architecture winner: Te Taumata o Kupe Nuku

Awards | Project Description / This would be a place where people could recite and receive mātauranga Māori, particularly that associated with Kupe, the legendary Polynesian navigator and explorer acknowledged...

Futuna Chapel exhibition a rare insight into architectural taonga

News | The work was produced by architect John Scott (9 June 1924–30 July 1992) and artist Jim Allen (22 July 1922–9 June 2023) and constructed by a dedicated team of voluntary lay brothers between 1957 and 19...

Objectspace video series explores John Scott pou

News | New Zealand modernist icon John Scott and his use of the pou – a central column – in bringing Māori architecture into the mainstream is the latest subject in the series. Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kah...

John Scott’s Werry Francis House on the market

News | The main three-bedroomed Werry House has many of the signature features of a John Scott (1924–1992) house – concrete block construction, use of exposed timber posts, contrasting ceiling heights and expo...

Significant John Scott drawings gifted to library

News | At the wheel was Jacob Scott, eldest son of architect John Scott, accompanied by his brother Adam. In the van were 67 A1 AGFA photographic paper boxes: 50 red, 12 green and five yellow. In the boxes lay...

Designing better futures for Aotearoa New Zealand: He tirohanga Māori, a Māori perspective

Review | In 2011, the charitable trust that had been established in 2003 to save John Scott’s Futuna Chapel at Karori, Wellington, initiated a lecture series to raise funds for the building’s conservation and pr...

Book review: John Scott Works

Review | Disclosure: When I graduated, I wanted to work for John Scott. (I always knew him as John whereas those closer called him Scott or JC.) But after letters and phone calls, we couldn’t ever get it togethe...

2023 John Scott Award winner: Te Pae North Piha Surf Life-saving Tower

Awards | Jury Commentary / Named Award citation: / “Sometimes functional and pragmatic buildings can elicit a business-as-usual architectural response. This is anything but. Much of the materials and labour we...

Scott Pritchard elected Property Council National Chair

News | “I feel very privileged to be taking the reins from John Dakin who’s done an amazing job, particularly through the past year,” he says. “I’m keen to ensure that Property Council continues to have a stro...

Not to miss 2024 NZIA events

News | Gordon Wilson Fellowship for Public Housing, John Sutherland Practice Award, Sir Miles Warren Award for Commercial Architecture, Ted McCoy Award for Education, Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing and the...

Futuna Chapel Fund launched

News | The Friends of Futuna Charitable Trust has officially launched the Futuna Chapel Fund to build a long-term funding stream to support the Chapel and the heritage of John Scott and Jim Allen, and to prese...

Down the long driveway reissue

News | Ten years ago, Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold released Down the long driveway, you'll see it — a book of mid-century modern New Zealand homes described by design commentator Douglas Lloyd Jenkins as: ...

Save John Scott’s Aniwaniwa Centre

News | Designed by the late Māori architect John Scott, the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre is a Heritage New Zealand Category One Historic Place. The Institute of Architects president Christina van Bohemen says that...

2017 John Scott Award for Public Architecture

Awards | Jury Commentary Lance Herbst, Louise Wright and Jack McKinney / This exquisite chapel is a sensitive insertion into a site with two strong but disparate existing buildings. The ambition of the concept...

2022 John Scott Award winner: HomeGround – Auckland City Mission Te Tāpui Atawhai

Awards | Project team: / Nicholas Stevens, Gary Lawson, Joshua Warne, Sasha Hendry, Howie Kang, James Hay, Yvonne Mak, Juliana Budel, Elliott Morgan, Yvette Overdyck, Natalie Keane, Kat Hebden, Barry Tobin, Bhavina Le Grice, Woo Min Lee,

Book review: Life of a Building: Futuna

Review | The book is carefully constructed with David Mitchell offering a personal reading of architect John Scott; Chris Cochran, a full chronology of the genesis and near loss of the building; Futuna Trust gue...

Inaugural Hawkes Bay architecture lecture series

News | Nationally recognised works by architects like Louis Hay, John Scott, Len Hoogerbrug, Guy Natusch, Malcolm Sweet, Paris Magdalinos, Peter Holland et al contribute to the region's cultural history. The t...

Distinct and sympathetic: 2019 John Scott Award for Public Architecture

Awards | Christchurch's new central library, Tūranga, was awarded the John Scott Award for Public Architecture by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects at the 2019 New Zealand Architecture Award...

2024 Garvey Cup awarded to Kim Paton

News | Projects on the library, John Scott, Rewi Thompson, digitising the image archives of Dr Mike Austin, and “playing a small role in the preservation of crafted objects from [Sir Ian] Athfield’s audacious ...

Resene Total Colour Awards 2024/25 winners announced

News | The judging panel was made up of Sylvia Sandford (colour expert), John Walsh (architectural writer and former Architecture NZ editor) and Laura Lynn Johnston (editor of BlackWhite magazine and previous ...

2018 John Scott Award for Public Architecture

Awards | Jury Commentary Richard Goldie, Andrea Bell, Amy Muir and John Melhuish / The new chapel at St Andrew’s College overtly references its much-loved quake-ruined predecessor through the incorporation of nu...

2021 New Zealand Architecture Awards Best in Public Architecture: Christchurch Town Hall

Awards | The Christchurch Town Hall was named winner of the 2021 John Scott Award for Public Architecture at this year's New Zealand Architecture Awards. The judges said Warren and Mahoney have breathed new life...

Best in public architecture 2020: Hihiaua Cultural Centre

Awards | The Hihiaua Cultural Centre by Moller Architects was named winner of the 2020 John Scott Award for Public Architecture at this year's New Zealand Architecture Awards. In combining the traditional whare ...

Ducks in the decorated shed

People | We got off the bus and walked through a delightful McGavock-designed house, noting features similar to those of his former boss, John Scott, and those where he had broken free and expressed new forms an...

Personal space: Luke Scott

People | What I’m reading / Ways of Seeing by John Berger. An oldie but a goodie, based on a TV series of the same name. Dean, our creative director, informed me a while back that the fact I studied design and...

Architectural essay writing awarded

News | Mr Martin won the Open category of the writing competition, and a $1,500 prize, with his essay on the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre, the John Scott-designed building near Lake Waikaremoana that was recently ...