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Those committed to building can build anything

Practice | My previous columns were like reflecting on a 3D family album: I looked back at sepia-toned memories and revisited them as if they were architectural models. I walked about them, looking at the housing ...

Before there was dank, there was Frank

People | The last column I wrote made a case that the isms of Eurocentric legacy architecture were a bit of a plague for the building practices of indigenous people. Further, that one of the losses accounts fo...

Selina Foote

People | Houses: Your latest exhibition, ray, is an abstracted interpretation of historic portrait paintings; can you describe the process from inspiration to finished artwork? / Selina Foote: Each painting be...

Interior Awards Q&A: Carolina Izzo

People | Federico Monsalve: Craftsmanship… what does it mean to you? / Carolina Izzo: Craftsmanship is knowing how to treat or create something that, in your hands, can get a life of its own again or endure a...

Interior Awards Q&A: Rawstorne studio

People | Federico Monsalve: In many ways it is an unusual project for Interior Awards. What made you want to enter? / Sarah Johnson: We don’t work in traditional interior design but a lot of our projects are ‘...

Camp Glenorchy: Net Zero accommodation

Projects | Camp Glenorchy, at the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park, must be New Zealand’s most sustainably designed and operated visitor accommodation project. It is the first in the world built to meet L...

Embracing errantry

People | Reader, who am I? Who are you? Where are we? What year is it? Trump is again President. And while it would be false to say nothing has changed this time around, we are, after all, in the middle of a g...

Revisited: Choong House

Projects | The Choong House burst onto Melbourne’s architectural scene in the late 1980s, heralding the innovative work of three young architects: Roger Wood, Randal Marsh and Dale Jones-Evans. Biltmoderne, the ...

Houses Revisited: In at the deep end

Projects | This is the story of an architectural project that growed like Topsy. When Auckland architect Tim Dorrington was first consulted by clients in Whitford, he was asked to design a new swimming pool and ...

Houses Revisited: In Parsonson country

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With Mike Hindmarsh

People | Houses: Have you always been design minded? / Mike Hindmarsh: I’ve always been attracted to craft and handskills. My father was a builder by trade, so I had access to tools from an early age – there w...

Utzon pilgrimage: Bagsvaerd Church

Review | In the last year of his architectural studies and while working at his father Jørn Utzon’s office, Jan Utzon made the presentation model for Bagsvaerd Church. After graduation he became the supervisor...

Book review: The Vertical Picturesque: Four Essays on Auckland Houses

Review | Every book about architecture should be like this: uncomplicated in its purpose, content and structure, beautiful to look at, and short. Indeed, it might be that most books intended for an architectur...

Pakiata Matariki set to light up Auckland’s Te Komititanga

News | For ngāi Māori, Matariki as a harbinger of the new year is a celebration of new beginnings. With manawa translating as heart, Matariki ki te Manawa becomes a timely and fitting metaphor for a city cen...

Behind the Object: The Navicula light

Review | Jacinda Rogers (JR): I understand the Navicula light was inspired by microscopic diatoms that live in the ocean. What got you interested in these tiny life forms? / David Trubridge (DT): I have always...

Exhibition: Oceanic Architectural Routes: The photographic archive of Mike Austin

Review | Mike Austin, known for his humility, would shrink from the title ‘Godfather of Pacific Architecture’, even if I use it in moderate jest. But there is truth in the ruse. Parsing the canon of Pacific ar...

Meet the 2023 Interior Awards jurors: Jon Rennie

People | Jon Rennie is a principal of Athfield Architects and heads its Auckland studio. Originally from Wellington, Jon has more than 20 years of postgraduation experience in the design of public architecture...

Obituary: Ian Dickson

People | Among his favourite projects — ones he talked about at home — were the refurbishment of the Greta Point Tavern (1978–1981; revisited in 1987) and its subsequent relocation in 2002–2003, as well as the t...

NZIA revisited

Review | Federico Monsalve: Any high point in the conference? / Aaron Paterson: Sam Jacob. He looks at architecture a bit differently from the sterile modernism that you see. FM: It felt almost like a literary...

Revisited: Fulcher Residence

Projects | Enthusiasts of Brisbane architecture usually associate the work of Peter Heathwood with his seminal lightweight houses, whose elegant box-like forms were often wrapped in a sunshading veil. His standi...

IFLA50: Keynote speaker preview

People | Adrian McGregor is a landscape architecture, urban design professional and managing director of McGregor Coxall, a Sydney- and Melbourne-based environmental design studio. Graduating with a bachelor o...

Experiments with light: James Turrell dazzles at the NGA

Review | James Turrell is a veteran Californian artist who throughout a career spanning almost half a century has employed light as a vehicle through which to manipulate the viewer’s perception of space. The T...

Modernist evolution: McLeod House

Projects | Ideas, themes and motifs have been tested here, revisited and reworked. It is also an expression of Ian’s strong connection with the experimental and expressive architecture of mid-century modernism. Th...

Crafty rooster: Kelburn Townhouse

Projects | The north end of Kelburn, between The Terrace and the top of the Botanic Gardens, has long been a locus classicus of Wellington’s haute bourgeoisie. It’s a handsome precinct of steep streets and fine ...

Advanced pose: Remuera House

Projects | On the northern slopes of Remuera, dotted with conservative faux Tudor and Arts and Craft mansions, an unabashedly modern, zinc clad house is something of a surprise. Of course, a little shock can be ...

Sensitive yet striking: East Melbourne Terrace

Projects | When the clients for East Melbourne Terrace decided to relocate from their home in the suburb of Canterbury, they had specific requirements in mind: a smaller house, with little-to-no upkeep, and some...

Climate Positive Design Challenge

News | On the back of global climate change protests, U.S firm CMG Landscape Architecture has launched the Climate Positive Design Challenge, which enables professionals around the world to take climate acti...

State housing: The new generation

Practice | The first state house was built in New Zealand in the 1930s. Many of these icons of New Zealand architecture are still standing today, providing living spaces for Kiwis all over the country. At Peddle...

Opinion: Our moral agenda

Practice | / When we celebrate the best, is it for the best? Language met its limitations with COVID-19; the word ‘unprecedented’ was used initially in 2020 by politicians without cynicism but, by the end of t...

Opinion: Twenty minutes in Tāmaki Makaurau

Practice | In my last column, I discussed the reasons for revisiting our collective moral compass as we move through and beyond this COVID time, by rethinking what is considered achievement and, therefore, celeb...