Tag: Commercial | Architecture Now

Crossing paths

Projects | Due for completion in mid-2013, The Crossing will feature five buildings around a podium base linked by an open-air plaza.

Media Storm

Review | Inside an open, studio-like work space with no visible hierarchy.

Christchurch Civic Building

Projects | Athfield Architects has succeeded in giving the building an open-hearted civility and a conscience.

Seismic firsts

Projects | The first NZ application of PRESSS technology in steel construction comes with an advanced damping system.

Fo Guang Shan Pagoda

Projects | Architecture as landscape is the principle that guided Warren and Mahoney’s Buddhist pagoda for a temple in Auckland.

Broadcast Tower

Projects | Copeland Associates Architects’ Tower at Auckland’s North Harbour Stadium may be “just a box but it’s a box done well”.

Y&R

Projects | A long-established advertising agency undertakes reinvention and becomes a cornerstone tenant with an interesting backstory.

Lifelong learning

Review | Progressive Building finds out why the belt is fast being tightened around the LBP scheme.

Southern retreat

Projects | Utilising bespoke building methods, a wellness centre near Queenstown is the first of its kind in New Zealand.

Mackelvie Street Precinct

Projects | Behind Auckland’s Ponsonby Road shopping mecca is RTA Studio’s stunning retail precinct.

Well rounded

Review | The world-first use of a round timber structural system is attracting interest from around the globe.

Small tunnel, mighty activity

Projects | A Category II tunnel in one of Wellington’s largest suburbs is earthquake-strengthened by Fulton Hogan.

Geyser

Projects | Drama and a sense of community within this Auckland building’s medieval-like laneways of the future by Patterson Associates.

Royal Society of New Zealand

Projects | A dramatic volume links the duo of black-and-white box forms in Wellington.

A Tip Top job

Projects | The administration building of Tip Top’s iconic Auckland factory has had a makeover. Progressive Building gets up close.

Beca House Site Tour

Calendar | Function, Auckland, 27 Nov 2012
Join the Beca Team on for a site visit of their new offices followed by drinks and canapés.

University of Auckland: Arts 1 redevelopment

UoA: Arts 1 redevelopment

Projects | A building designed by Ivan Mercep of JASMaD in the early ‘80s has been seamlessly refurbished by RTA Studio.

New Zealand Commercial Project Awards

Calendar | Award 26 Oct 2012
This new awards programme will recognise top commercial buildings and the teams behind them.

Auckland Architecture Association 2012 Construction Site Tour 2

Calendar | Talk, Auckland, 21 Jul 2012
Tour 2 will take visitors around St Heliers’ Turua Street development, by Cook Sargisson & Pirie architects.

Concrete3 Sustainability Awards

News | The awards are open to those in the construction industry – architects, designers, engineers, contractors and builders.