Tag: Civic | Architecture Now

New green era for Sydney Opera House

News | The Sydney Opera House has been awarded a 4-Star Green Star Performance rating by Green Building Council of Australia.

Review | Marriage discusses the redevelopment of New Zealand’s National War Memorial Park in Wellington.

News | Will the sale of Queen Elizabeth Square in downtown Auckland be another planning fiasco for Auckland Council?

Review | Auckland-based architect Phil Smith reviews the World Forum Foundation’s Global Collaborative OnDesign for Children event.

Projects | A vibrant home for the performing and visual arts takes its design cues from the community it serves.

Review | The inauguration of the Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth ensured that architecture and art truly engaged with the wider public.

Projects | Wellington’s much-loved, small stage has a renewed look and new lease of life.

News | Work is well underway for the beloved heritage building on Queen Street, including seismic strengthening.

Projects | A project by Athfield Architects pushes spatial and civic boundaries.

Projects | Patterson Associates has created a multifunctional building beside the Avon River in Christchurch’s Hagley Park.

News | Nearly one hectare of new public space in Wynyard Quarter, Auckland, was opened to the public on 22 November.

News | An opening ceremony will celebrate the completion of the Lopdell Precinct redevelopment in Titirangi this Saturday.

Practice | Perhaps one of the most ambitious urban regeneration projects of our time, the Avon River Precinct development is underway.

Projects | This ‘craypot’ building is constructed entirely in timber and is the first in the world to use shear walls of CLT and LVL.

Review | Peter Wood reviews the new link between Wellington’s suburb of Kelburn and the city centre.

News | St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Morrinsville has been controversially demolished.

Projects | The intersecting anatomy of roof forms on a giraffe boudoir encourages the world’s tallest terrestrial mammals to copulate.

News | Christchurch Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre opened by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

News | Auckland Transport appoints group to oversee reference design for city rail link.

Projects | Opus Architecture has amalgamated a complex series of buildings from different eras on Napier’s 150-year-old museum site.