Wynyard Quarter's Jellicoe Precinct and the Auckland City Centre Masterplan have taken the top awards in the brand new New Zealand Urban Design Awards, a new biennial programme that acknowledges the importance of high quality urban environments. More …
Five links for your Friday distraction. More …
Thanks to the Cocoon 1, the latest innovation in Swiss furniture design, you can quite literally live within your own little bubble. More …
String Theory's last brilliant viral effort for the Good Books charity, Metamorphosis, recently took gold and bronze at the London International Awards – and it could have another winner on its hands with the latest innuendo-heavy, bodice-ripping Mills and Boon-themed ... More …
Farming is a dangerous business. And, despite a concerted effort to lessen the number of accidents, the fatalities keep coming. Susan Edmunds looks at what manufacturers and the powers that be are doing to change that. More …
A dozen projects ranging from houses to offices and a school to an army workshop have been acknowledged in the 2012 Western Architecture Awards, the New Zealand Institute of Architects’ official awards programme for the Taranaki, Whanganui, Manawatu and Horowhenua ... More …
James McNab's Revival Vest has reached the end of the journey in the international James Dyson Awards, nabbing a more than respectable runner-up spot alongside The Beth Project, a self-adjusting limb concept from the US. More …
While messy, receipts are a necessary evil to keep on top of when you're a contractor. That's how Paperkut founder Drew Broadley first came up with his business idea. More …
Every year fresh faced young'uns with dreams of creative greatness prostrate themselves in front of adland's judgemental powerbrokers and show off the year's handiwork. So get thee to the end of year show for the AUT Ad ... More …
We Kiwis love our chocolate, but our tastes aren't particularly sophisticated. Kiwi chocolatier and founder of The Sweetest Little Chocolate Shop Stu Jordan reckons New Zealand is at least two years behind Australia and almost a decade behind Europe ... More …
Running a successful business is a collective effort, and so tonight 13 of New Zealand’s most significant business support organisations got a rare moment in the limelight as winners of the 2012 AUT Excellence in Business Support Awards. More …
The greening of Auckland city is underway, with an edible garden planned for Wynyard Quarter and two already established in Ponsonby and K Rd. More …
In-season, earth-friendly fashion. What's not to like about that? More …
Kiwi IT company Datacom is a truly global business, and here chief executive Jonathan Ladd talks to NZTE about how it's taken its products and services to the world. His advice to others? Give people the wherewithal to make ... More …
With a career spanning Australia, Europe, Asia and now New York, at only 40 New Zealand-born Jonty Kelt is already onto his fourth startup, Group Commerce. More …