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To review or listen?
People |
My friend said he had read the column and found it interesting, and that it made some architects that he knew feel disgruntled. When I asked why that may be, he replied that I discussed ideas and shou...
The art of architecture - Sir Miles Warren
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The two questions often put to retired architects are: how has architecture changed over the last 50 years, and how will it change in the future? I am probably less able to predict the future than an ...
Courtyard housing: a mid-density alternative
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Present policies are intended to ensure a sustainable form of urban development, aiming to increase urban density and stocks of affordable housing. This has led to current practice in which house type...
Oh God, I hate this
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A constitutional monarch must keep his opinions to himself and, regardless of whether he agrees or not, blithely rubber-stamp royal assent to all legislation passed by the government of the day. But, ...
Secede Auckland!
People |
The hunt for suitable products led to late-night phone calls to British companies as he sought to gain the right to represent companies he had found by, well, I don’t really know how in those pre-inte...
On reading and lucky jobs
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Since COVID-19, ideas of the workplace and the amount of time you should spend there have been revisited; this invites reflection on other previously held expectations and social obligations of work. De...
From terraces to Deco - ‘first editions’ in Auckland’s high density housing
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Naming a design style is not a common practice for architects in the twenty-first century. However, it is interesting to reflect on the nameable styles of housing architecture that emerged between 199...
Revisiting the Aaltos
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1982: As a young architect, I had wrestled my way from Turkey to Finland, at the soggy end of a hitchhiker’s version of the Grand Tour, involving low-budget lodgings, sleeping on beaches, thumbing lif...
Framing the central city: again
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I doubt a design drawing a wide green band to confine central city construction was as hot a topic in 1850 as it is in 2012. Both the 1850 ‘Town Reserve’ and the 2012 (Christchurch Recovery Plan) Blue...
Big week for VUW School of Architecture
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Headlining the speaker list at the Te Aro campus of Victoria University is Danish landscape architect Jeppe Andersen who will talk on Thursday about recent work such as his collaboration in the ...
Festival of Architecture: AKL report
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Previously known as Architecture Week and largely run by the Auckland branch of the NZIA, the first Festival of Architecture sought to expand the remit, both temporally and geographically, with an exp...
Six rules for housing design in the city
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Almost every discussion of housing amongst architects turns to a critique of design priorities in the speculative market – the product of an industry that supplies two-thirds or more of all housing in...
Opinion: Beatific urban farmers
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I revisited the building a few weeks back. It was recently reopened after a refit that apparently addressed various code and maintenance issues and, though my memory of that stormy night was a bit hazy,...
Our voices: Indigeneity and architecture
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Our voices: Indigeneity and architecture begins as its title signals, calling to its reader in chapter-long verses that share research findings, practice observations, lived experiences and creative m...
Viewfinder: Top five with Sarah Rowlands
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"I’ve photographed this structure during construction to completion and then revisited it again a couple of years later on the longest day of the year in December 2019, which was as a personal project,"...
Winners announced: 2022 Nelson/Marlborough Architecture Awards
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Moments of fun abound, the family’s personality shines through, making Faith & Doubt a home in which to live ‘a life less ordinary.’ / Spring Creek Revisited by Modo Architects / Time can be unkind t...
Design for decolonisation
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Country, climate and community underpin the design aspirations of our studio. In June last year, we hosted a studio conference at the University of Technology Sydney to extend our knowledge of and rei...
Suiting up
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Architecture doesn’t arrive all at once. There’s a lot to unpack and hang, ribbons to cut, names to gift. Such welcoming celebrations are important for community, yet it is worth reflecting that we ra...
Anti-social distancing
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The Auckland Unitary Plan (AUP) that came into force in November 2016 revised the rules for housing design across the city’s region, introducing new paradigms, and unifying regional policies for the d...
Revisited: Jack Manning’s Gold Medal interview
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NZIA Gold Medal Citation / Jack Manning has demonstrated his architectural ability in consistent manner, but never in repetitive form, in a career stretching over half a century. Throughout that care...
Ohakea: five star facility
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During the early stage of the works the mechanical services design was revisited and changes to the heating system have pushed out the completion date. A decision to replace steam with gas brought more ...
On the rise
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ArchitectureNow: Were you drawn to architecture from a young age?
/ Raphaela Rose: Growing up with an academic mother who taught town planning at the university, as one of three sisters we were alwa...
Managing mental health
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Closer to home, we revisited Parlour’s Guides for Equitable Practice, which reminded us that there are common mental health issues associated with long working hours which include depression, anxiety an...
Who wants to be a ‘woman architect’?
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Is the term “woman architect” pejorative or useful? Are single-sex prizes “sexist”? These questions have returned to prominence following the publication of a recent essay on Dezeen. I am both for and...
Kinetic architecture
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Through the years, I have revisited the questions in different forms with only mild response. It was not until I decided to apply this idea to building tectonics on the building envelope did I start to ...
Exploring and enriching the void
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But, in surveying the past 50 years, we see the evolution is immense; yet, there’s much that can be revisited, remembered and re-purposed for a new context and time. We are grounded by, and adhere firml...
An artist and an architect return to Europe
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Three years is a long time to be separated from whānau and friends so it was with relief and gleeful anticipation that we were finally able to head to the Netherlands, France and Germany to catch up ...
Form follows narrative
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Forty years on and we have revisited this as the architects for the Japan Consulate in Christchurch, New Zealand. A reciprocity has occurred with an intertwining of cultures, once again expressed in thi...
Designer Profile: Penny Vernon
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Urbis: When and how did you get involved in interior design? / Penny Vernon: I think all my life I’ve been drawing pictures. I was the second eldest of six children on a small farm in Raglan, near Ham...
Wall to Wall
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Firstly, I want to ask you about the Venice Biennale; it must have been very exciting to be involved and to show your exhibit in the historic Corderie of the Arsenale. Were you pleased with the end ...