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Whānau-focused: Kāinga Tuatahi Housing

Projects | The best have cunning diagonal movement across their plans from room to room: a technique John Scott pioneered to make spaces feel bigger. The most interesting thing in one typology is that tenants coul...

Beyond breezeblock: Naranga Avenue House

Projects | The Naranga Avenue House by James Russell Architect is both a set of transparent skins wrapping a series of patio-like spaces and a private family home. It subscribes to the logic of a utilitarian cam...

Book review: Claude Megson: Counter Constructions

Review | A Peter Beaven book was recently published, the stuttering project for a John Scott publication seems finally to have gained traction, and a Gummer and Ford title is apparently in the works. A book on t...

Venice 2014: Vernissage day three

News | By day three of the Vernissage, you are sleep deprived, weary worn, hungover and hoarse. So of course the only thought in your mind is to dive once more into the Biennale, in search of the pavilions t...

Building an underground car park on a hazardous site - Holy excavation

Projects | After a lot of planning and complex excavation works Victory Christian Church in Auckland will soon be transformed with a new foyer, new administration building, 347-space underground car park, landsc...

Itinerary: Mason & Wales Dunedin

Review | In particular, John Stacpoole’s monograph, William Mason: The First New Zealand Architect (AUP and OUP, 1971) and his broader follow-up text, Colonial Architecture in New Zealand (Reed, 1976) are valuab...

Australia’s best houses announced

Awards | Rich spatial experiences are achieved through a layering of the plan, long and short vistas, changes in scale, landscape and the curation of light." / Terrarium House by John Ellway (Highgate Hill, QLD)...

Architect Sarah Scott in profile

People | I definitely remember them both - John McKeefry and Ben Brenton, not bad after 40 years is it? The earlier architect was a close family friend as well so I knew him even though I was not around when all...

Gymnastics of the cross

Projects | / In a wall niche, there’s also a hand-carved statue of Mary made by Michael Pervin from the Studio of John the Baptist. On the wall by the baptismal font, three icons, hand-painted in the traditional...

Itinerary: Libraries and community centres

Review | John Hunt wrote, “community workshops played a key role in establishing local needs and expectations and in establishing a design direction. Familiar themes of voyage, arrival and welcome merge as part ...

Itinerary City Guide: Papaioea Palmerston North

Review | Perhaps because of this constant traffic, the city hasn’t fostered a John Scott or John Blair-like character to differentiate the local scene. Surprising, then, is the city’s roll-call of architectural ...

John McCoy in profile

People | Were you born in Dunedin John? / Yes, I was born and bred in Dunedin. Ted [McCoy] was here all his life as well. So you went to high school there? / I had a Catholic upbringing and I went to St Joseph...

Winners announced: 2019 New Zealand Architecture Awards

Awards | JOHN SCOTT AWARD FOR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE: / Tūranga by Architectus and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects / Judges said: “Tūranga is a building of distinction, which admirably fulfils its function as Chri...

Dave Strachan awarded highest honour in New Zealand architecture

News | Past Gold Medallists have included John Scott (1999), Sir Ian Athfield (2004), Roger Walker (2016) and Jeremy Salmond (2018). Dave Strachan will deliver a Gold Medal lecture at eight centres around New ...

Three generations, two houses, one roof

Projects | If John Scott really did gift us the woolshed as the archetypal building for New Zealand architecture, could it be that O’Sullivan is doubling down on these agricultural roots and proposing a corrugated...

Winners revealed: Southern Architecture Awards 2023

Awards | Three short-stay apartments are named after former occupants Gaynor Clayton, Henry Matthews and John Campbell, and the interiors are inspired by them. Large circular openings at the rear façade of an ap...

Master Builders House of the Year (Bay of Plenty region) announced

Awards | Beck Building has effectively revived an architectural gem crafted by one of Aotearoa's beloved architects, John Scott. / The judges applauded the builder's determination in successfully harmonising n...

2018 New Zealand Architecture Awards: Winners

Awards | This year's jury was made up of Peddle Thorp director Richard Goldie, founder of Bell + Co Architecture Andrea Bell, Wellington architect John Melhuish and Melbourne-based architect Amy Muir. See below ...

2019 Southern Architecture Awards

Awards | Little Brighton Beach House by Johnston Architects / The project is “finely perched near dunes, orientated to addresses the best aspects of the surrounding environment and to generate interesting archit...

Winners revealed: 2020 Gisborne/Hawkes Bay Architecture Awards

Awards | Housing / Turley House by Gavin Cooper Architect / The work of Guy Natusch and John Scott was a starting point for this thoughtfully designed home, which is the product of years of dreaming and planning...

Opinion: The disappearing plan and section

Practice | archdaily.com/941870/architects-diverse-positions-on-visualization-from-hyper-realistic-renderings-to-digital-collages / 3 Scott Overall, John Paul Rysavy, Clinton Miller, William Sharples, Christopher...

The future of green building

Review | Closing keynote speaker John Keung, chief executive of the Building and Construction Authority, Singapore, talked about his experiences in the city that has “moved from slums to a sustainable built envi...

2017 Gisborne/Hawke’s Bay Architecture Awards

Awards | / ENDURING ARCHITECTURE AWARD: / Martin House (1970) by John Scott Architect / A delightful and inspiring home with playful uses of volume, light and the relationship between shared and private space....

2018 Gisborne/Hawkes Bay and Waikato/Bay of Plenty Architecture Awards

Awards | The New Zealand Institute of Architects Gisborne/Hawkes Bay and Waikato/Bay of Plenty branches combined this year for their local awards ceremonies. The winners in both regions were announced on 4 May...

2015 Gisborne-Hawkes Bay Architecture Awards

News | SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE AWARDS: / John’s House Pavilion by Bossley Architects and Citrus Studio in association / This single bedroom, self-contained retreat is deliberately sited in direct conversa...

Organic forms

People | AMH: What are some domestic buildings that you love or get inspiration from? / NS: Some of the houses of John Scott, the Martin house is a key one, and others like Ron Sang’s Brian Brake house in Titira...

The waka huia

Projects | What was your main goal there? / GH: The foyer refers back to both John Scott [the original architect of the Waitangi visitor centre] and Professor Dick Toy, who were active through the 1970s and ‘80s. ...

Miramar Roxy Cinema renovation

Projects | Perhaps Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Gay Divorcee, John Wayne as the screen's first singing cowboy in Riders of Destiny or a terrifying performance of Dracula with real screams. In the 1930s ci...

Thinking Furniture

Practice | Michael Brill; Sue Weidemann; and John Olson and Ellen Keable; BOSTI Associates; Disproving Widespread Myths About Workplace Design; Kimball International

ASB Sports Centre

Projects | However, what the opposers failed to properly grasp, and fortunately Sir John Anderson’s review of the case understood, was that this sports facility is intended mainly to be a community destination, se...