Bet you’ve never seen a church quite like this before. The 'Reading between the lines' project is the result of a collaboration between Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh. The use of the horizontal plates aims to ... More …
Architectural competitions can be a bit of a contentious issue but their popularity is certainly on the rise, particularly when it comes to informing the design of civic spaces. Now Hastings District Council is on the hunt for innovative ideas ... More …
When we spoke to the folks behind Greening the Rubble earlier this year, they had high hopes for their voluntary project, which converts earthquake-damaged spaces into recreational, green havens, albeit temporary. The effort looks to have paid off with the ... More …
Having picked up multiple Best Awards awards in every shade this year — Gold, Silver and Bronze – Stevens and Corban expand on the very collaborative approach undertaken to create the hugely successful Fisher & Paykel Social Kitchen. More …
In October we featured a story about ArtBox, an initiative aiming to provide exhibition and retail space for approximately 100 Christchurch artists, craft practitioners and design retailers who have been displaced following the February earthquake. The initiative has moved from ... More …
The pool of winners from the 2011 Gisborne/Hawkes Bay Architecture Awards may be on the smaller side — a regular theme in this year’s NZIA regional awards — but they’re well worth a look. Seven projects took out an ... More …
How can something as small as a beetle help combat a global issue as large as drought? Edward Linnacre from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne has an idea, an idea so good, in fact, it earned him this year ... More …
Canterbury has been given three new residential foundation design categories following the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. The categories, and the areas they apply to, are based on ground conditions, including the susceptibility to liquefaction, and the extent of land ... More …
From Valerie Adams to Kylee Guy, the faces featured in New Zealand New Millennium are instantly recognisable. It's a comprehensive portrait of our nation in images from 2000–2010 – in news, politics, natural disasters, sports, arts/culture, celebrity, lifestyle ... More …
Doing its bit to represent the Wellington creative scene, digital agency Resn (which in our humble opinion also has one of the coolest websites we’ve ever seen) picked up a Purple Pin in Interactive Design for its American-based virtual ... More …
Taupo was recently graffitied with 390 cans of spray paint and 280 litres of paint, but don’t worry, this was no act of vandalism. The coloured effort was all part of street art festival Graffiato, which involved a selection ... More …
Round six of the local architecture awards has wrapped up, with Palmerston North entries proving big winners on the night. A total of five Palmerston North projects took home an award in the 2011 Western Architecture Awards, with 12 awards ... More …
You might remember a while back we featured this rather sweet and very clever video about a guitar-wielding Apache. Created using animation, motion graphics and a touch of live action, the video was directed by 2D animator Ned Wenlock of ... More …
News that Australian company DesignCrowd had launched in New Zealand didn’t go down too well with our readers a few weeks back. But its presence in the Kiwi market and beyond has been given a booster by way of ... More …
It’s probably safe to say Wellington Airport’s new international terminal, dubbed 'The Rock', has now picked up enough awards to give the big finger to its critics. Having in the past being likened to a pair of giant ... More …