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Assessing risks: New Zealand architecture industry in 2024

Practice | Sebastian Hamilton, Principal at Monk Mackenzie, also emphasised the industry’s susceptibility to potential risks, noting a slowdown in mid-tier developments, particularly in the townhouse range. “The c...

Dynamic direction: Abdallah Alayan

People | Back in Aotearoa, as an associate at multidisciplinary architecture practice Monk Mackenzie, Alayan designs both commercial and residential projects, with what he describes as an almost limitless level ...

Determining the built environment

Review | Our primary objective in writing this piece is to understand how it is that architects are often divorced from public work. We want to try to understand how process selection governs outcome and how t...

AAA Visionary Architecture Awards 2015: winners

News | The judging panel for 2015 was made up of Rewi Thompson (Māori architect and design tutor at University of Auckland), Dean Mackenzie (partner at Monk Mackenzie Architects), Lynda Simmons (registered Arc...

NZIA Auckland Region awards announced

News | Resolution Footbridge Warren and Mahoney Architects Ltd / The Surf Club at Muriwai Jasmax Limited / Giraffe House Glamuzina Paterson Architects Ltd and Hamish Monk Architecture / Small Project Architect...

Viewfinder: Top five with Thomas Seear-Budd

Projects | We stayed overnight each in our own monk’s quarters. The monastery is still operational and welcomes guests from all over the world to experience not only the architecture but the monastic way of life. ...

2018 Festival of Architecture: Auckland edition

News | Hamish Monk and Dean Mackenzie of Monk Mackenzie are seeking a wide horizon for expression and formal innovation, linking their business to big thinking. Not aiming to grow timidly but to engage in vari...

The evolution of Matter

Practice | “I WENT TO THIS TEMPLE AND ALL THESE MONKS WERE CHANTING AND I DIDN’T FEEL ANYTHING. JOHN’S BEEN USING THESE HAIR PRODUCTS AND I DON’T KNOW WHO I MARRIED ANY MORE.”12 / Through prioritising the explorat...

Winners revealed: Auckland Architecture Awards 2025

Awards | Palimpsest House by Monk MacKenzie / Ordered around a largely symmetrical plan that is almost Palladian in form, this house manages a level of detail, refinement and material restraint that is seldom p...

Viewfinder: Top Five with Simon Wilson

Projects | Les Mills Auckland City by Knight Associates and Monk Mackenzie I’ve been lucky to work alongside Rufus Knight documenting his interior projects for many years. We both like to tell the story of a proje...

Winners announced at the 2022 Interior Awards

Awards | Find out more > / / EMERGING DESIGN PROFESSIONAL / Raukura Turei of Monk MacKenzie / “Threading the multiple roles of mother, artist and architect throughout her work, Raukura’s collaborative and cra...

New Zealand Architecture Awards 2018 shortlist announced

Awards | “We have to find ways to up the game with this type of work, and Housing New Zealand obviously is trying hard to lift standards of design and performance.” / See a full list of finalists below: / Commercial Architecture / Te Kei, Ara C...

Book review: The Drama of Space

Review | Megson’s lectures ran through the full historical range of approaches, from Palladio’s A-B-A rhythms to Le Corbusier’s Modulor proportion system to the Dutch monk Hans van der Laan’s mid-20th-century th...

COVID consciousness: Against the bunker

Review | In architectural practice, it isn’t much of a leap to categorise work such as Monk Mackenzie’s X_House concept or Architecture Workshop’s Lindis Lodge as buildings which, even before seductively hunkeri...

Flights of fancy

Review | / This expressive metal and wooden tornado-like staircase is located in Israel and crafted by Tomer Gelfand. A total of 9,000 meters in length of raw Poplar wood was cut in a CNC machine to create t...

2012 Milan Furniture Fair – the best so far

Review | Called Spring Table, the restaurant serves diners in the historic cloisters of the building during the day and in the frescoed original monks' dining room in the evening. Overall, MOST is impressive – a...

Fo Guang Shan Pagoda

Projects | The upper levels of the pagoda, where cremated remains will be kept, will be accessible only to the monks or nuns of the temple. The layout of this area is suitably austere, with exposed concrete and a ...

Singing for supper

Review | There were plenty of smaller projects: IS’s Mapua Park Structures, Cheshire’s Rore Kahu and Monk Mackenzie’s Canada Street Bridge, for example. They are rich in terms of site and the underlying elements...

Winners announced at the 2021 Interior Awards

Awards | Harkness was joined on the jury this year by director of Knight Associates, Rufus Knight; workplace strategist and interior designer at Peddlethorp, Sarah Bryant; architect at Monk Mackenzie, Raukura Tu...

Green commons

Projects | Of course, monks must submit to a rule, but co-housers get to choose from a menu of voluntary activities and communal amenities. Toiora residents can sign up for gardening duty and one Toiora statistic,...

Winners announced: Interior Awards 2019

Awards | HOSPITALITY AWARD / The Les Mills – boxing, functional and immersive fitness areas, designed by Monk Mackenzie, Knight Associates and Alt Group, took home the Hospitality Award for their creation of spa...

Books: November 2019 edition

Review | This is a lovely book about a lovely building – do what you can to finagle a copy – but it will be even better when it has little books to sit alongside it by Monk Mackenzie, Edwards White, PAC Studio a...

Southern retreat

Projects | Designed to blend in with their surroundings, the buildings that will make up New Zealand’s first off the grid health retreat sit on remote ridges in the hills near Glenorchy. Overlooking the northwes...

Diversity in architecture: part two

Practice | Shaking prejudices / Raukura Turei is the project architect of a large-scale commercial project in Auckland for Monk Mackenzie. Here, she talks about education and the role of the property developer in ...

2016 Auckland Architecture Awards

Awards | PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN AWARDS: / #LightPathAKL, Central Auckland by Monk McKenzie and LandLAB, in association / An heroic achievement: an utterly intoxicating piece of cycling and pedestrian infrastruc...

Itinerary Guide: Jack McKinney — hospitality and commercial projects

Review | Enjoy the Zoo’s growing collection of interesting buildings, including the Giraffe House (2013) by Monk Mackenzie and Glamuzina Paterson, and the Administration Building (2018) by Ignite Architects. 13....

Iberian Study Tour

Review | Its original outdoor courtyard has been given a roof to create a dramatic indoor space but, as you swim in the pool on an upper floor, you cannot help but wonder what the monks would think of Byrne’s ad...

Itinerary: Libraries and community centres

Review | / St Benedict’s rules for monastic life, written in 516AD, stated that monks were to read for at least two hours a day and, for this purpose, were to be provided with ‘individual volumes from the book...

Itinerary: Office buildings

Review | 14. 2020 – Foodstuffs Headquarters / 35 Landing Drive, Auckland by Monk Mackenzie / The backstreets around airports aren’t usually promising places to look for architecture but this headquarters for...

2018 Auckland Architecture Awards

Awards | Jennings Jersey by Monk MacKenzie / In this Housing New Zealand project in Mount Albert, density has been achieved in a manner that complements the surrounding neighbourhood in a scheme that is “efficie...