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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...

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...

Itinerary_ Housing, not Houses 2: Alternative Models

Review | The project earned the NZIA’s John Scott Award for Public Architecture in 2022. See Simon Wilson, HomeGround (2022). 10. 2022, Block Party / Southgate, Wellington Spacecraft / Designed by a young firm ...

Binding traditions

Practice | 1885–1969), William Tuarau Royal (Ngāti Raukawa, 1931–2013), John Scott (Taranaki, Te Arawa, 1924–1992), Rewi Thompson (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Raukawa, 1953–2016), Tere Insley (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau ā Apan...

Wellington’s airport terminal gets a new ‘rock’ look

Projects | When the design of the new international terminal at Wellington Airport was revealed in 2009 the people most surprised by the orange rendered forms were the architects. Somewhere deep within the publi...

Balancing creativity and practicality

People | It’s hard to come up with my favourite but I think the Fortuna chapel by John Scott is a great building – the light and form is just beautiful. AMH: What would be a dream commission for you if you could...

Architect profile: Dominic Glamuzina

People | In New Zealand, Claude Megson's houses are spatial madness, and I’ve always liked how John Scott dealt with roof forms. The Kiwi architects that I admire the most have a really broad practice. They don’...

On the Rise: Geordie Shaw

People | In New Zealand, John Scott is a big influence. Emma and I got married in Futuna Chapel, which was very special for us. AMH: What piece of advice would you give to your student self? / GS: I think it too...

Te Wharehou o Waikaremoana

Projects | Sited about 2km from where this newly-completed visitor centre now stands, the Category 1 Historic Place-listed building (1976), designed by New Zealand’s first registered Māori architect John Scott, ha...

Ways of making

Practice | To provide more in-depth engagement with technology and construction, since 2009, senior lecturer John Chapman, a qualified engineer, ran a post-graduate Timber Technology seminar course in the fourth y...

Scrap it or save it… again

Practice | Also worth considering is the cost to Council of its current commercial leases for three temporary CBD library pop-ups plus a new Johnsonville library collection and distribution centre, likely costing ...

“Exciting and optimistic” apartment wins at 2020 Resene Total Colour Awards

News | It is a feast for the eyes.” / Resene Total Colour Commercial Interior + Public Space Colour Maestro Award / Waitohi Johnsonville Library and Community Hub by John Hardwick-Smith, Chris Winwood, Nick ...

Itinerary City Guide: Whangārei

Review | 14. 2019– Hihiaua Cultural Centre / 56 Herekino Street Moller Architects / Awarding this building, the first in a multi-stage development, the NZIA John Scott Award for Public Architecture in 2020, th...

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...

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...

2017 Auckland Architecture Awards: winners

Awards | Waitangi Visitor Centre by Harris Butt Architecture / This alteration to a nationally important building is cleverly understated, and continues John Scott’s elegant proportional system with seamless tra...

With Patrick Clifford

People | ANZ: You’d joined forces with Cook Hitchcock & Sargisson and John Scott, hadn’t you? / PC: Yes. We did the first stage and we must have received some money to do the second stage. There were five firms ...

On the Rise: Haley Hooper

People | And Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who works and speaks like a godfather. In terms of New Zealand architects, I have a real thing for Neville Price, and John Scott is another big influence. AMH: What overseas u...

Winners announced: 2021 Southern Architecture Awards

Awards | The judging panel for the night was comprised of convenor Rafe Maclean of Rafe Maclean Architects, along with Simon Richmond of Salmond Architecture, Amanda Dorset, owner of Wilson & Dorset, and John Da...

Not a dress rehearsal

Practice | John Goldwater was my first studio teacher, another gentle man, who would talk about how to set the scene for the big acts of habitation – the coming together for the rituals of life, eating and sleepin...

Once more, with feeling

Practice | Buildings such as John Outram's Isle of Dogs Pumping Station (1986-88) and Stirling Wilford’s No. 1 Poultry (1992-97) have been listed by Historic England. Postmodernism is sweeping back through the arc...

NZIA Gold Medal winner: Pete Bossley

People | David Mitchell, Mike Austin and John Dickson were the main three for me. So, what was it that they imparted? How did they inspire you? I think it was an adventurous and very different approach to doing...