Tag: Te reo Māori | Architecture Now

Civic welcome

Projects | Felicity Brenchley explores the collaborative design process behind Whangārei’s new civic centre, Te Iwitahi, by Team Architects Auckland.

New app brings te reo Māori into architectural plans

News | Room to Rūma, a trailblazing new app by Peddlethorp for Autodesk Revit, allows native Māori or English speakers to navigate architectural plans in te reo Māori.

Iwi-led build-to-rent

Projects | Te Whānau o Waipareira has embarked on a high-density, build-to-rent kaumātua housing project in Auckland’s Ōtāhuhu, designed and master-planned by Isthmus.

A place to call home

Projects | Keni-Duke Hetet of Waka Group Architecture talks to Nicola Coburn about a project close to his heart, a new papakāinga in Motueka that offers 20 low-cost rental homes.

Towards an old architecture

Projects | Anthony Hōete finds an emergent force in play at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato University of Waikato’s The Pā, designed in collaboration by Architectus, Jasmax and designTRIBE.

Weaving a conduit for environmental knowledge

People | Isabella Muirhead of the University of Auckland was the winner of 2023’s NZIA Resene Student Design Awards. Here, she describes her project, Common Ground.

Te taura whakairo: the continuing tradition

Practice | This year’s Te Kāhui Whaihanga Gold Medallist, Deidre Brown, discusses her journey through architecture as she follows the evolution of Māori and Pacific design.

Gold Medal video 2023: Deidre Brown

News | Watch the video honouring the 2023 Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Gold Medal winner.

Ka hoki ki te whare huri ai e!

Projects | Rameka Alexander-Tu’inukuafe and Saul Roberts take a uniquely Māori view in their exploration of RCG’s Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa in Rotorua.

He pari kārohirohi, he whakapapa pounamu

Projects | Rameka Alexander-Tu’inukuafe and Saul Roberts have prepared a pātere to be viewed before reading their review of Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa.

Projects | Derek Kawiti surveys Pā Reo, the latest additions to Te Wānanga o Raukawa campus in Ōtaki by Tennent Brown Architects, and the dedicated process under way to achieve Living Building Challenge certification.

Haumi ē! Hui ē! Tāiki ē! Becoming great ancestors

Practice | TOA Architects’ founder Nicholas Dalton has a vision that, by 2040, all its architects will be fluent in te reo Māori and other firms will overhaul their policies to honour te Tiriti.