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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...

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...

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: ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Gobsmacked

People | See architect John Irving at Cliffhanger House on the Hibiscus Coast: “So, this is the wow moment here with the view. You sort of get drawn to it, like moths to the light.” Spencer sees the view as an e...

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,

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...

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...

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...

Southern Architecture Awards 2024: Shortlist announced

Awards | Twenty-nine projects have been shortlisted in the 2024 Southern Architecture Awards. The shortlisted projects were selected from entries in the awards programme of the Southern Branch of Te Kāhui Whai...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Book Review: Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice

Review | This book is the latest in the Time Honored Architectural Conservation Documentation series, which surveys architectural conservation history and practice in various world regions. Previous volumes ha...

New issue of Houses out now

News | We also look at four fine houses from +MAP Architects, John Mills Architects, Parker Warburton Team Architects, and Dorrington Architects and Associates. We talk to architect Sarah Scott about her work ...

Recap: NZIA Gold Medallists

News | The 2015 New Zealand Architecture Awards are almost upon us, which is an ideal time to reflect on the previous recipients of the NZIA Gold Medal in years past. Below we feature two fascinating videos ...