Architecture NZ

Architecture New Zealand is the journal for New Zealand’s architects. For over fifty years it has been at the centre of the profession – keeping architects informed, inspired and engaged with reviews of the latest projects, insightful commentary on key issues and critical discussion of practice matters.

Some kind of miracle

Architecture NZ

University days

The centre cannot hold

ROTORUA WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT PLANS

UNDERSTANDING LOW-CARBON DESIGN

CHISELLED DAYLIGHT

ESSAY FROM BANGLADESH • Architects Jeremy Smith and Murali Bhaskar go looking for water and hard-to-find buildings in what is already one of the world’s most populous mega-cities, Dhaka.

SHARING HUNDERTWASSER’S LEGACY • Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s rural New Zealand home will open to the public for the first time in coming months, offering a rare insight into the world of this unorthodox painter, architect and environmental activist. Annabelle Smith enjoyed an early tour of the site.

YELLOW POST • This year’s winning Brick Bay Folly, Yellow Post, towers over the North Auckland sculpture park as it welcomes visitors to the site. Amanda Harkness speaks with the designers.

MAX WARREN • Max Warren of North Canterbury-based architecture practice Max Warren Architect designs simple, honest projects, with an engaging mix of practicality and playfulness.

Moments of warmth, tactility and embrace • Ben Lloyd and Mike Hartley discuss their practice goals – of being in the moment, prioritising the tactile elements of their designs and making an architecture that gives its inhabitants a warm cuddle.

Work

Student body building • Anthony Hōete investigates the skilled stacking of 22,280m2 of fitness and movement embodied in Hiwa, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland’s new Recreation and Wellness Centre by Warren and Mahoney in association with MJMA Toronto.

Crafted from timber and bubbles • Guy Marriage is in awe of the culture, creativity and engineering of Porirua’s new food and events space, Kai Tahi, by Chris Moller Architecture + Urbanism and MacKay Curtis.

The building as a teacher • Rebecca Kiddle navigates the relationship between the principles of the Living Building Challenge and a te ao Māori way of seeing the world – exemplified in Ngā Mokopuna at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington by Tennent Brown Architects.

Generous and dignified social housing • Jon Rennie visits Community Lane, Architectus’ recently completed development for Kāinga Ora in Auckland’s Avondale, which provides muchneeded social housing as well as salient precedents for dense, multiunit residential architecture done well.

Guide: Angus, Flood & Griffiths

Architects, not Architecture

ARTITETURE