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Towards a cultural revival

Projects | “The buildings have been designed with an ecological focus, leaving a light touch on the whenua and encouraging renewed relationships between tangata and taiao,” explains project architect Raukura Turei...

Interior Awards 2022, Emerging Design Professional Award Winner

Awards | The jury's comment: / "Threading the multiple roles of mother, artist and architect throughout her work, Raukura’s collaborative and craft-based approach is both sensitive and powerful at once. Her work...

Architecture+Women.NZ Dulux Award 2023

Awards | Finalists were Charlotte Hoare, Haley Hooper, Sally Ogle, Kelly O’Sullivan and Raukura Turei. The winner, Raukura Turei, was described by the jury as an extraordinary practitioner, whose work is charact...

Meet the 2021 Interior Awards judges: Raukura Turei

People | Raukura Turei is an artist, architect and mother, and she was also a winner at last year's Interior Awards in the Residential category with her Ōwairaka House project. We hear more about her favourite s...

Architecture+Women.NZ Dulux Awards 2020 Winners Announced

News | The event was opened by jury member Raukura Turei and her whānau, hosted by A+W NZ co-chairs Divya Purushotham and Lindley Naismith, and citations for all 15 finalists were read by the wider A+W NZ team...

New TV series The Drawing Board documents the rise of Māori architecture

News | Episode 7 – Tere Insley, Elisapeta Heta and Raukura Turei, wahine toa incorporating an indigenous aesthetic that considers tikanga and mātauranga Māori, shaping spaces through a Māori lens. Episode 8 – ...

Architecture + Women NZ and Dulux announce finalists for 2020 Awards

News | This year’s jury was made up of Professor Lori Brown of Syracuse Architecture, University of Auckland associate professor Dr Julia Gatley, and architects Raukura Turei and Andrew Tu'inukuafe. They selec...

The Drawing Board

Review | Episode seven could have opened the series, given the charged commentary from its wāhine toa (Tere Insley, Elisapeta Heta and Raukura Turei), who note the absence of te ao Māori in the university curr...

A gentle rhythm: Mount Albert renovation

Projects | When they asked their friend, architect Raukura Turei, for help, she initially put the brakes on. “The house was a beautiful mash-up of deco and Queen Anne styles,” says Turei. “I encouraged Danica and ...

Announcing the 2021 Interior Awards jury

News | / Raukura Turei (Ngāitai ki Tāmaki, Ngā Rauru Kītahi) / Architect, artist and mother – Monk Mackenzie Raukura is an architect based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She was the recipient of the Interior Awards R...

Binding traditions

Practice | Rachel Carley (Ngāpuhi) is a ceramicist and Raukura Turei (Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngā Rauru Kītahi) a multidisciplinary artist; both are University of Auckland architecture graduates. A graduate from the W...

Editorial: Chris Barton on the way forward

Practice | Of the many insights COVID-19 brings, the realisation that our economy is built as a house of cards is one of the more sobering. Two months into this global pandemic, what seemed so substantial and gl...

On the Rise: Tane Pamatatau-Marques

People | TPM: I was lucky enough to start here just before I finished my thesis, working mostly with Hamish Monk and Raukura Turei on iwi and community housing projects. We’re doing some amazing papakāinga work ...

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...

Opinion: Empty architecture

Practice | Subscribe here / More about the top image: As part of Raukura Turei’s project for the design of a contemporary whare tapere, she calls attention to the nature of land ownership and land guardianship. He...

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 ...

2017 Auckland Architecture Awards: winners

Awards | 43 diverse projects, ranging from a large, contemporary Tongan building to an innovative, artistic gateway structure on Waiheke Island, were rewarded at the 2017 Auckland Architecture Awards, held at ...