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Future of Design: Making AI work for you

Practice | By explaining in simple terms how a machine learning model works, I hoped to demystify this somehow scary-at-first new technology. Like electricity, which was once considered a magic trick and it is now...

Ka hoki ki te whare huri ai e!

Projects | Taking an acutely unique Māori world view, we pay reverence to the prestige of Wai Ariki, to the whenua upon which it stands and to the iwi of Ngāti Whakaue (nō mua, nō muri, nō nāianei), who helped con...

The power of plastic bricks

Review | This past fortnight, the artist and architect Ai Weiwei took to Instagram to publicly lambast the Danish toymaker Lego, which had refused to fill his bulk order of blocks to make an artwork for his fort...

He pari kārohirohi, he whakapapa pounamu

Projects | Our narrative begins with the metaphor of a manu, a bird that soars through space and time, traversing the writers’ tribal landscapes of Te Tai Tokerau, Tāmaki Makaurau and Waikato, finally arriving to ...

Future of Housing Summit: A pathway to affordable homes

News | Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Interim Chief Executive and Auckland Branch Chair have announced they are teaming up with the nation’s largest trade event, BuildNZ, at the ...

The art of architectural photo editing

News | It is about recreating how our brains perceive and experience space. Through careful application of technical skill, psychological insight and artistic judgment, photo editing transforms raw images into...

Ideas from the Inaugural Aotearoa Biophilic Event

Review | His original and witty twist on the current hot topic of ‘AI’ or as he likes to call it, ‘Ancestral Intelligence’ in hindsight, fittingly paved the way for a day of reflection and an overarching theme o...

Conversation creates

Practice | Working alongside ASB, CPRW helped to re-imagine the retail banking experience. This was a close, almost exclusive, relationship that would last nearly 30 years. Several cycles of nationwide roll-outs f...

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...

Technology meets craft: Merging digital tools with traditional design in residential architecture

People | In a world where almost anything can be 3D printed or prefabricated, the handcrafted details of a home stand out more than ever. Recently, we worked on a home where custom timber cabinetry became the fo...

Building Change: World Green Infrastructure Congress 2024

Review | Overarching themes / Sharing knowledge toward creating sustainable, livable cities, key themes of the WGIC2024 included: / Regeneration and biodiversity: Strategies for enhancing urban biodiversity thro...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Book review: The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education

Review | The guide is, in fact, “for anyone critical of the hierarchies that both the school and the profession deploy”, and is aimed at students, educators and practitioners in architecture (and its broadened f...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...