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Finalists revealed – 2025 Interior Awards

Awards | Thirty-one projects and three Emerging Design Professionals have been selected as finalists across 11 categories in this year’s Interior Awards. Amongst them an animated, unconventional workplace that...

Towards a cultural revival

Projects | The Monk Mackenzie-designed Te Henga Kāinga Whakahirahira marae and papakāinga represents a significant milestone in the iwi’s cultural revival; the project is made up of a suite of both residential and...

Auckland Architecture Awards 2025: Shortlist announced

Awards | See above for images of the shortlisted projects, which are: / Housing / Prospect House by MAUD Park Point House by ASC Architects Onetangi Cliff House by Herbst Architects Sefton House by Ashton Mitchell Te Arai by Bureaux Pt Chev Hou...

Monk Mackenzie grows leadership team

News | Mat Brown, an architect with more than 25 years of experience, has joined the Monk Mackenzie team in their Auckland studio as Managing Principal. The firm explains that this growth of the senior leaders...

Winners revealed: Auckland Architecture Awards 2025

Awards | Palimpsest House by Monk MacKenzie / Ordered around a largely symmetrical plan that is almost Palladian in form, this house manages a level of detail, refinement and material restraint that is seldom p...

New Zealand firm wins at World Architecture Festival day one

News | Kiwi architecture firm Monk Mackenzie has taken home a win in the ‘Infrastructure – Future Projects’ category. / Monk Mackenzie and Novare’s winning project is Thiruvalluvar in Kanyakumari, India: a 50...

Brutal reckonings

People | Breuer was also commissioned to design a brutalist church on a hill, for Benedictine monks, rather than a millionaire psychopath industrialist. The epic project went through similar agonies: Tóth regula...

Interior Awards 2022, Emerging Design Professional Award Winner

Awards | Current design practice: Monk Mackenzie / Project involvement: / Ōwairaka House / Foodstuffs North Island HQ / Te Mauri Paihere Ki Mangakōtukutuku / Hopuhopu Papakāinga / "I am a multi-disciplinary art...

The resilience of the diagram

Projects | I met the team from Monk Mackenzie and interior architects Bureaux to walk through the newly completed building in a moment of quiet interlude — following the photoshoot but before move-in. As we wander...

Watch here: Interior Awards 2022, Emerging Design Professional finalists

Awards | / Sarah Delamore of Jasmax / Raukura Turei of Monk Mackenzie / Zee Shake Lee of Jasmax / Video unavailable. /

Watch here: Interior Awards 2023, Emerging Design Professional finalists

Awards | Ella Lilley-Gasteiger of Monk Mackenzie / / Emma Hoyle of Emma Hoyle Interiors / / Oli Booth of Oli Booth Architecture /

Twenty New Zealand projects shortlisted for World Architecture Festival 2019

News | New Zealand has once again shown up strong with 20 projects named as finalists in 14 categories. / Warren and Mahoney, Monk Mackenzie, Jasmax, LandLAB and RTA Studio return to the shortlist this year ...

Onekoura holiday house by Arthouse Architecture

Projects | Correct orientation, shading, and LED lighting throughout all contribute to the overall energy efficiency of the house, says Monk.

‘A piece of sculpture’: Tasman View House

Projects | Monk lived in Japan for five years and was influenced by the special features of Japanese architecture, like the use of screens and the concept of the engawa. “This means an in-between space, a transiti...

World Architecture Festival 2021 shortlist

Awards | The nine shortlisted New Zealand projects are: / COMPLETED BUILDINGS / Higher Education and Research / Scion Innovation Hub, Te Whare Nui o Tuteata, Rotorua – RTA Studio and Irving Smith Architects / Hotel and Leisure / Holiday Inn...

Entries open for 2018 World Architecture Festival

News | New Zealand members of the more than 130-person jury pool include Hamish Monk (principal, Monk Mackenzie Architects) and Jeremy Smith (design director, Irving Smith Architects). Entries made to the WAF ...

Interior Spaces: Screen with a view

Projects | There’s something about a Monk Mackenzie design that makes you catch your breath. Whether it’s the proposed Bond-esque X-House hovering above the land in Queenstown, the Foodstuffs North Island headquar...

Strong show of Kiwis on the 2018 World Architecture Festival shortlist

News | Experimental / Island (Auckland) by LandLAB / House / Arrowtown House (Arrowtown) by RTA Studio / / Infrastructure / Te Whau (Auckland) by Monk Mackenzie and Jasmax / Thiruvalluvar (Kanyakumari, Indi...

WAF 2017 shortlist announced

News | The shortlisted New Zealand projects are: / COMPLETED BUILDINGS / Culture / ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland – Moller Architects with BVN Architecture / Mixed Use / Mackelvie Precinct, Auckland – RTA Studio / New and Old / Kauri Timbe...

Carving a niche: Monk Mackenzie

People | Both Hamish Monk and Dean Mackenzie of Auckland-based practice Monk Mackenzie Architects (MMA) have a vast wealth of international experience, working in spots such as Hong Kong, New York and London for...

Architecture Workshop wins at World Architecture Festival day two

News | Architecture Workshop’s Lindis Lodge was named the winner of the Hotel and Leisure – Completed Buildings category at the second day of the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam. Festival organisers...

Studio Pacific announces 2023 promotions

People | Below is a complete list of all recent promotions within Studio Pacific: / Kaiārahi Matua – Senior Principal – Marcellus Lilley / Kaiārahi – Principal – Dorian Minty – Julie Stewart – Michael Lowe / Pou Whaihanga Matua – Senior Associa...

World Architecture Festival 2022 shortlist revealed – 15 New Zealand projects are in the line-up

News | WAF represents the world’s largest live-judged architectural awards programme and amongst this year’s shortlist of 420 projects (selected from hundreds of entries from over 50 countries) are 15 from A...

2015 World Architecture Festival

News | A diverse cross-section of projects, ranging from large infrastructure works to small-scale designs, have been announced as finalists in the fourth iteration of the World Architecture Festival program...

Auckland Architecture Awards 2024: Shortlist announced

Awards | See above for images of the shortlisted projects, which are: / Housing / Leigh Road Home by Belinda George Architects Ōwairaka House by Athfield Architects Huruhi by Bossley Architects Shapeshifter by Crosson Architects Waimana Estate ...

A jewel in the cycle network

News | Dean Mackenzie and Hamish Monk of Monk Mackenzie Architects, in collaboration with Henry Crothers of LandLAB, are behind the modern, eye-catching design for the cycleway. At the project's commencement, ...

Report from WAF

Review | – Craig Moller / Slightly controversial / At last year’s World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam, Monk Mackenzie was invited to help judge the Small Project category – the finalists in this category ha...

WAF 2016 shortlist announced

News | The shortlisted New Zealand projects are: / COMPLETED BUILDINGS / Civic and Community / Te Oro – Archimedia / Culture / Len Lye Centre – Patterson Associates / House / The Red House – Crosson Architects / House / K Valley House – Herbs...

Winners: A+W•NZ Dulux Awards 2023

News | Raukura Turei of Monk Mackenzie / Congrats to this year's finalists: / Anna-Marie Chin of Anna-Marie Chin Architects / Sue Evans of Kāinga Ora / Dr Julia Gatley / Jane Rooney of Architectus / ĀKAU / Tes...

Dynamic direction: Abdallah Alayan

People | Back in Aotearoa, as an associate at multidisciplinary architecture practice Monk Mackenzie, Alayan designs both commercial and residential projects, with what he describes as an almost limitless level ...