Fancy darting around town on this sweet ride? The limited edition “tribute” Vespa is part of the latest offering from digital veneer—an advanced surface decoration technology that provides a replacement for real wood and stone in VVIP aircraft, Superyacht ... More …
Normally bland and impersonal, gynaecologist’s offices don’t often make the cut for design awards. But this warm, playful and seductively curvaceous solution in Auckland, by Tim Dorrington of Dorrington Architects, breaks the mould to make potentially anxious clients ... More …
Envisioning our global future in the shape of cities continues to be a flavour of the new decade, further evidenced this month by the October cover story of Foreign Policy, the widely available journal of global politics, economics and ideas ... More …
Those of you lucky enough to attend this year’s Semi-Permanent will no doubt remember Storm Thorgerson’s mass-kiwifruit experiment entitled 'F**k Avatar'. As part of the mass-audience participation experiment, audience members seated downstairs at Storm’s presentation were ... More …
While the regional architecture awards have been taking the spotlight as of late, Friday saw another set of awards dished out, this time by way of the ADNZ (Architectural Designers New Zealand)/Resene National Design Awards, which showcase the work ... More …
Read as Vanity Fair’s Juli Weiner comically sums up what has been a manic week for Gap clothing company, after its new logo received a stupendous amount of backlash. With all the ensuing fuss that followed the re-design, it ... More …
If you’re not fond of the 111 Navy Chair featured in the previous story, perhaps sitting on a 3-D scribble is more your style? The C-Bench and C-Stone, by Belgian designer Peter Donders, were created by twisting a single ... More …
If you don’t like to drink Coke, perhaps you’d like to sit on it instead—well, sit on the bottle at least. Never slowing down in its bid to brand the world, the Coca Cola Company has inched ... More …
A James Bond style heliport, a house with fins and the Waitangi Toilet Block were among the winners at last nights Auckland Architecture Awards, which received a healthy 120 submissions. More …
Strong and effective design was a prominent theme at last night’s NZ International Business Awards, which recognise new approaches that businesses are taking to achieve international success. And it was smart design that resulted in Pumpkin Patch collecting the ... More …
Possessor of the “best job in the world”, Cathy Veninga talks to Vincent Heeringa (it’s almost poetic) about why this years Best Design Awards are “rad” and shares her favourite moment of the night. More …
In the fourth instalment of Auckland University’s Future Proof series, Jerome Partington, sustainability manager at Jasmax, attempted to answer that very question. In the current climate of failed global climate change agreements, architecture can be the vehicle for global ... More …
The competition was—for lack of a better word—stiff at this years NZ Wood Timber Design Awards, with winners including Wellington’s Supreme Court and the Waitomo Cave Visitor’s Centre. The awards even ventured as far as the ... More …
Fancy having a piece of Hollie Smith permanently in your home? How about a Riki Gooch? Well—you could—as part of the Art for Artists Sake charity auction, in which sixteen Kiwi artists have applied their dab hand at ... More …
Having worked in some intriguing locations—including Mongolia— Irish-born Julie Hannon shares her Supercity hopes and discuses the global trend of sustainable building design. More …