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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...
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...
A reality check and a call to arms
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But let’s take a moment to provide some context and cast our minds back to 2005 — a pivotal year for sustainable design in Aotearoa with a lot happening. In 2005: / The Kyoto Protocol came into force, m...
Designing the dragon
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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’
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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...
Planning for cultural resilience
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Cultural resilience is a modern catch cry for something Māori tūpuna (ancestors) did intuitively, and which formed a part of daily life and decision-making. As masters of their environment, tūpuna knew ...
Art (and Architecture) in Venice
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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...
New school on the block
People |
You couldn’t sail a waka as an individual but, as a collective, you can go a long way. Through the programme having an integration between year groups and a collaboration across disciplines, our student...
Hostile architecture, as seen from the suburbs of an expensive city
People |
Hostile architecture is a concept that seems to have gained currency amongst architectural writers some time in the past decade. From what I can tell, it’s the contemporary equivalent of what used to be...
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...
On the Rise: Te Ari Prendergast
People |
I was quite influenced by what The Bartlett were doing at the time, which was large scale, detailed line drawings and story telling. AMH: Has your thesis influenced any of your work that you’ve done sin...
Cathedrals of learning
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It is incumbent on us all to make sure this prevails.” So says German economist Klaus Schwab in The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means, how to respond.1 / As in so many sectors of society, disr...
Simple and pure
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We collaborate on design but we don’t get entrenched in it — I enjoy the early stages, the broad thinking and then I like to move on without getting too much into the detail; maybe that’s partly my pers...