Tag: Civic | Architecture Now

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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.

Projects | Muriwai’s new surf lifesaving clubhouse, designed by Jasmax, is set 300m back from its rapidly eroding coastline.

News | Auckland Harbour Bridge pedestrian crossing given the go ahead for consultation.

Projects | Reworking of this 20-year-old theatre has received rapturous applause from those that play there.

News | Christchurch City Council has received a prestigious international award for its effort in promoting sustainability.