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Server Manifesto: Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy

Review | The ‘tragedy of the commons’ is that, without shared social structures, cultural practices like kaitiakitanga (guardianship), mutual restraint by consensus or formal rules, people will tend to overuse i...

Keeping it in perspective: Stantiall Studio turns 25

News | Over the past 25 years, Stantiall Studio has received a number of international awards, including from The American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI) and the Japanese Architectural Renderers ...

Auckland Design Week 2025: Chance + Change

News | The week-long celebration of design will run from 3–9 March and aims to build on the momentum of 2024 whilst drawing inspiration from international design festivals. With internationally renowned design...

Trilingual: Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom

Projects | From the 1870s, a burgeoning flax industry saw up to 25 individual flax-working mills; ships from Sydney sailed up the Manawatū River, loaded up with flax and departed back across the Tasman. Māori ente...

Disruptive provocations at the annual CoreNet Symposium

News | These stadiums now take on a life of their own, housing hospitality, retail and even residential in addition to the ubiquitous sports arena and seating for up to 150,000 pax. One of the practice’s lates...

The Brutalist: Form over function

Review | On the other hand, Tóth’s thoughts about his client remain mostly an enigma, he feigns and genuflects, working diligently and obsessively, taking the help offered to get his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jone...

The death of the desk

Practice | Brian Tolman, Unispace Global Design Director, said: “In the next five years we are going to see significant change to the way that business occupies space with the barriers between home and the office ...

2015 Serpentine pavilion unveiled

News | The plastic will filter natural light into the pavilion's interior, tempering it with colour, much like stained glass might in a church. The amoeba-like structure will have multiple entrances and exits,...

Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa exhibition in Wellington

News | In this, a large-scale kinetic lightweight structure (12m x 3m) is combined with holographic, digital animations, and an integrated AI system that has been trained with 60,000 poems to lead and sustain ...

Nekenekehia Tukua: A Wharehoka Smith exhibition

News | “Nā to rourou, nā taku rourou, ka ora ai te iwi. With your food basket and my food basket, the people will thrive.” The exhibition’s name is a joyful command: Nekenekehia (move!) and an exclamation: Tuk...

Meet Décortech: Sponsor of the Interior Awards 2023

Awards | We talked to Vicki Ellis, Sales Marketing Coordinator for Décortech about what's next for the design industry, how Décortech is leading the way with sustainability and future trends they have their eye ...

Colour as an antedote

News | However, colour can be a powerful antedote to lift spirits and provide a sense of comfort and warmth, which is evident with this year’s colour palettes.” / The rise of AI, and continuous decent into the...

What’s in a name?

Projects | A generation (or two!) won’t know this building as the old Air New Zealand tower of the 1970s. It was originally part of a modernist comprehensive development at the end of Queen Street where city meets...

Serpentine announces 2016 pavilion architect and extra commissions

News | The Serpentine Gallery, London, has announced that the Bjarke Ingels Group will design its famous temporary summer pavilion in 2016. In a surprise addition to the program, the gallery has also announc...

Serpentine Pavilion 2017 “highlights the power of simplicity”

News | A transparent skin will cover the roof canopy from above, which will protect the pavilion from rain while allowing sunlight to penetrate. The underside of the canopy will be lined in timber shading elem...

Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to design 2018 Serpentine Pavilion

News | Based on a traditional Mexican courtyard house, the design of the pavilion will be governed by two main axes. The outer walls will be aligned with the Serpentine Galleries’ east facade while the interna...

Video: Toyota and BIG create a “town of the future”

News | The smart city will give a real-world environment for scientists, engineers and researchers to test robotics, autonomy, AI, personal mobility and smart home technology and is “designed to allow technolo...

Haumi ē! Hui ē! Tāiki ē! Becoming great ancestors

Practice | E noho ana ahau ki tōku taumata whakamarumaru o Ngōngōtahā, taka rawa iho ngā wai o Utuhina, e piri nei ki te taha o Pukeroa Oruawhata. Ka huri taku titiro ki Tiheia, e aru kōrikoriko ana ngā wai ō Awah...

Review: Forty Years Drawn: Pete Bossley

Review | Here, the room contains books. Yet, these are not holistically designed objects, as are, say, exhibited artists’ books. Instead, this is a personal archive, a library, of one architect’s sketchbooks bro...

Brick Bay Folly finalists revealed

News | In the long haul that is the daily graft of architecture, the Brick Bay Folly joins a very few other project types offering a fairly quick turnaround testing of one’s ideas, blessedly free of bureaucrat...

Assessing risks: New Zealand architecture industry in 2024

Practice | / Early-stage projects surge amidst sectoral dynamics / According to BCI Central, in Q3 2023, the value of early-stage projects surged by 44%, driven mainly by the industrial, infrastructure and trans...

Designing the dragon

People | Urbis: How long have you lived in Shanghai? / Briar Hickling: I moved to Shanghai in 2009 and actually didn’t intend on staying for as long as I have. I worked as a senior associate with architectural p...

Review: CoreNet – The Intuitive Place

Review | Archarya isn’t talking about redesigning desks to the personal tastes of tenants but the “delivery of tailored content across every touchpoint in the customer journey”, citing retail, hospitality and st...

Draft of shadows

Projects | “We chose a restrained material palette to give the interior’s design a strong identity but, still, to have it appear soft and luxurious,” Schuybroek explains. The effect is utterly utilitarian, providi...

Context Architects on how they are managing the construction crisis

Practice | Without a doubt, New Zealand businesses are experiencing pain not seen since the global financial crisis. The construction industry isn’t faring well, which is something of an irony given the amount of ...

Before there was dank, there was Frank

People | Unpaid labour in any sector is at a disconnect with the cost of, well... everything but, especially, the most baseline of human needs such as housing: renting let alone home ownership. Free architectura...

He kooti hou - Te Kooti Whenua Māori, Māori Land Court

Projects | E tū ana au ki ngā tapuwae o ōku tūpuna i noho ai ki konei. Tirohia ki Manaia, ki tētahi o ngā pakiaka o Ngāpuhi, mihi ki te tūpuna ka tū tonu hei kōhatu, anei te toto e heke mai nei, mai i tēra maunga ...

Building Change: The carbon measurement ‘glow up’

People | In committing to the The Paris Agreement in 2016, the New Zealand Government has set ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions, aiming for a 50% reduction in net emissions by 2030. Sustainable design...

Building Change: The mass timber revolution and its hidden impact on our carbon footprint

People | Globally, an increasing number of companies are embracing mass engineered timber (MET) as a way to reduce carbon footprints and promote their sustainability credentials, including Walmart Inc., Microsof...

Art (and Architecture) in Venice

Review | It would probably all make sense because this year’s 55th art biennale contains so much architecture, in parallel with recent architecture biennales exhibiting a good deal of ‘art’. Indeed, it seems the...