2012-05-15 11:43:06 // Design Daily Team
Plans to build a new theatre at Wynyard Quarter got a boost today in the form of a $5 million ASB Community Trust pledge.
2012-05-03 10:17:27 // Esther Goh
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Aucklanders can look forward to an integrated transport system, a third harbour crossing, and improved health and education services by 2040 if the city gets focused, takes action and builds investor confidence, according to a new study by the AECOM Global Cities Institute.
2012-03-02 12:26:21 // Esther Goh
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The Auckland Theatre Company is out to address Auckland's dearth of performing arts venues, spearheading a campaign to build a new theatre in the Wynyard Quarter.
2012-02-29 13:03:00 // Hazel Phillips
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Nikki Kaye tells Hazel Phillips how she's faring, nearly six months on from defending her position in a spot of national significance.
2012-02-21 13:23:19 // Siobhan Leathley
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Jesse Mulligan is an unabashed JAFA, because self-loathing JAFAs are just so darn unattractive.
2012-02-16 10:08:38 // Idealog
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Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye is passionate about her city. And she thinks it's finally on the right track, stepping back and taking a longer-term view of issues with the Auckland Plan as a starting point.
2012-02-15 09:37:47 // Idealog
Auckland and Wellington are becoming increasingly expensive cities to live in, ranking among the top 20 in the Economist Intelligence Unit's latest Worldwide Cost of Living survey.
2011-10-20 10:15:29 // Design Daily Team
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Aucklanders have had one month to make their voices heard on the Auckland Council’s Draft Auckland Plan, but the council has announced it is extending the submission period by six days. Originally due to end two days after the World Cup on October 25, you can now have your say until 4pm Monday 31 October. Now Creative Coalition, the “champion for Auckland region’s creative sector”, is urging people to make their submissions and has prepared a summary and submission guide from an arts, heritage, culture and creative sector point of view.
2011-09-21 13:49:25 // Design Daily Team
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In under one week the biggest event on the Auckland architectural calendar kicks off. From Saturday 24 September to Saturday 1 October, Architecture Week Auckland will bring together a variety of activities in a number of locations, including exhibitions, a sculpture park visit, the launch of the Women in Architecture project and a talk by international guest speaker Sean Godsell. Local architectural firms Fearon Hay and Peddle Thorp Architects will also deliver a joint presentation on their co-win of Waterfront Auckland’s design competition for a 300-room hotel in the Wynyard Quarter.
2011-08-17 12:51:28 // Esther Goh
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Struggling in the City of Sails? You're not alone: Auckland has shot up the list of the world's least affordable cities.
2011-03-14 14:15:26 // Design Daily Team
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Kiwi illustrator and animator Kieran Rynhart has beaten out 6,000 submissions to be selected as one of Luerzerʼs Archive Best 200 Illustrators Worldwide for 2010/2011. His submission, titled ʻSt. Brendanʼ, was picked by a panel of the worlds industry-leading art directors, creative directors and illustrators.
2011-03-14 11:14:37 // Design Daily Team
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You’d be pretty hard-pressed to find an Aucklander who doesn’t agree that more thought needs to be put into the city’s urban design planning, (just look at the numerous, ugly show-box apartments that have sprung up throughout the central city). So news that Auckland Council is being asked to commit to stronger support of urban design principles is a positive step.
2011-01-21 06:00:00 // Design Daily Team
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We absolutely love this animated map of Auckland’s public transport network. It’s the clever creation of Chris McDowall, who describes it as “...the map I used to daydream about”. As a child sitting on the bus, McDowall says he’d wonder “...what the transportation network would look like if we could see the movements of the individual vehicles from the air”. After Auckland Transport published its Google Transit Feed data on the MAXX website last year, McDowall created a software that brought the animated map to life, showing the increasing movements of public transport vehicles over the day, starting from 3am on a Monday morning. Check it out here.
2010-11-10 10:18:54 // Design Daily Team
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As the watchful eyes of Rugby World Cup visitors descend upon Auckland city streets, it’s hoped a new initiative involving flowerpots and decorated rubbish bags, will ensure their eyes feast on all things beautiful.
2010-11-09 15:30:36 // Design Daily Team
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Following a recent Cabinet meeting, Nick Smith and Rodney Hide have shared their thoughts on Auckland’s spatial plan and how central government will work with the Auckland Council to develop the first spatial plan. And both agree, not surprisingly, that the plan will enable Auckland to play a critical role as a key link to the global economy.
2010-11-08 10:59:32 // Design Daily Team
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When rugby madness descends upon our shores next year, Queens Wharf is braced to be the largest of Auckland’s four Rugby World Cup 2011 Fanzones, featuring open areas and a multi-purpose temporary facility named ‘The Cloud’. And in a bid to get the area up to scratch, John Key has unveiled plans for a $9.8 million redevelopment of Queens Wharf.
2010-11-05 11:39:56 // Design Daily Team
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Today marks the launch of Auckland’s Art Week (5-14 November), giving you the chance to pick and choose from 80 events and exhibitions taking place across three inner-city neighbourhoods. Better yet, many of the events are free. You can even get in amongst a spot of speed dating...
2010-11-02 10:09:06 // Vicki Holder
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The final building in Auckland’s six Rhubard Lane group is the aptly named No. 6 Rhubarb Lane, by Peddle Thorp Architects. It contains 15 aPods sized between 170 – 506m2 and much of its framework is inspired by New York loft-style apartments in the celebrated Soho district.
2010-10-15 13:06:37 // Design Daily Team
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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.
2010-10-11 09:26:32 // Design Daily Team
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This coming Friday Auckland’s Western Park is set to light up with creative ideas as part of the inaugural Art in the Dark event, aimed at exploring and exploding the ideas of ‘Community, Environment and Utopias.’
2010-10-08 13:36:35 // Deirdre Robert
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The process of makeovers isn’t always pretty, as the plethora of road cones that have littered the surrounding streets of Eden Park during its redevelopment are testament too. But while it may have not been such a pretty affair on the outside, inside it’s a different story, as those attending the unveiling of the new look park this Sunday will see. The makeover includes a new look ground and revitalised logo, all set to “put on a distinctively New Zealand face” for the half a million visitors expected to visit the park over the course of the Rugby World Cup.
2010-10-08 13:27:00 // Design Daily Team
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Telecom employees, currently scattered across five locations in Auckland, are set to unite in a greener space, with its new building—Telecom Place—being awarded a Five Star Green Rating by the Green Building Council, in partnership with building partners, Manson Group. Its greener building features include...
2010-10-06 11:22:27 // Vicki Holder
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From unique baches to community centres, Logan Reilly muses over creating exceptional spaces that each become dream commissions.
2010-10-05 15:56:14 // Design Daily Team
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The Auckland Waterfront Development Agency has a brand spanking new chief executive by way of John Dalzell. We have one of the most stunning waterfronts in the world and our challenge over time, says Dalzel, will be to transform it into an internationally recognised urban waterfront environment.
2010-10-05 11:33:16 // Simon Todd
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“Cycling in Auckland’s only for the brave now. Only what I call Road Warriors are left.” So lamented a neon-bib wearing member of Cycle Action Auckland Inc as he, sandwich and plonk in hand, waited for the start of ‘Urban Design for a Super City’, part of the cycle club’s AGM. And who better to start the battle, than Auckland’s Environmental Strategy & Policy Manager, Ludo Campbell-Reid.
2010-09-30 15:19:04 // Deirdre Robert
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In downtown Auckland last night a host of Auckland business and local government leaders converged to listen as an expert panel shared their ideas on what the Auckland Spatial Plan could look like, how policymakers and ratepayers could contribute and interact with it, and how the plan could benefit the rest of New Zealand.
2010-09-28 15:54:45 // Design Daily Team
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What do you call an office with no receptionist, no phones and a carpet of glossy black pebbles replacing carpet tiles? The Research Agency, of course. The new fit-out at Auckland's High Street by architect Jose Gutierrez comes from questioning what makes an office typical.
2010-09-27 16:53:45 // Design Daily Team
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A second harbour crossing is what Aucklanders most want from their Supercity candidates, according to a new nationwide ShapeNZ survey, which asked respondents to set priorities for four major projects being discussed by candidates for the new super city council. And it seems that New Zealand as a whole have a similar view on what Auckland’s top project priority should be.
2010-09-23 10:05:58 // Simon Todd
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This week, our man on the street Simon Todd takes the plunge into public loo territory. Heritage buildings are so often in private hands, he says, and we can’t afford to let the public ones go down the toilet.
2010-09-16 10:26:09 // Design Daily Team
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Auckland’s Britomart Precinct is a constantly evolving project. Its $350 million transformation by Cooper and Company into a retail, lifestyle, commercial and residential space, includes the renovation of 17 heritage buildings and the construction of six new buildings. Watch the changes for yourself with this newly released video, which takes you on a ride through the development, allowing you to appreciate it from literally every angle
2010-09-14 15:05:24 // Design Daily Team
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With the redevelop Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter already underway, the Auckland City Council has announced the approval of key steps that it says will help ensure the momentum of the redevelopment continues.
2010-09-13 10:38:28 // Vicki Holder
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Walking down Rhubarb Lane, the vibrant urban village planned for the Victoria Quarter of Auckland, visitors will face the unusual façade of ‘Tattoo’, the latest release within the Rhubarb Lane development due for completion in 2012.
2010-09-09 10:39:18 // Matt Cooney
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Mark Pesce is a longtime Apple user and a dedicated futurist and technologist, so you’d think he’s seen it all. But the iPad, he reckons, is something altogether different.
2010-08-18 11:57:47 // Simon Todd
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Design Daily's man on the street Simon Todd investigates the case of the missing Freyberg Place sculptural drink fountain. Having graced the street over the summer, it was a case of here one day, gone the other.
2010-06-23 13:43:55 // Deirdre Robert
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The University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning is giving you a reprise from cold winter evenings by offering up 16 free toasty lectures from July to October.
2010-06-22 12:00:21 // Deirdre Robert
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The cultural and social heart of Auckland’s waterfront is set to beat fiercely by mid-2011, with the expected completion of five new attractions in Wynyard Quarter.
2010-02-23 22:44:00 // Vincent Heeringa
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A new report by IBM and the Univerity of Auckland into the state of Kiwi innovation reveals two surprising facts, and one dismally old one
2007-09-07 06:19:32 // Matt Cooney
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Richard Simpson wants to reinvent his dysfunctional city and he’s not timid in his plans: bulldoze the Harbour Bridge and free up some coastline, dig a canal from the airport for ferry traffic, reopen old tunnels and rivers, and even reorient Auckland away from the Queen St shambles—all while getting the city online and sustainable. Thinking big, then. But why does Auckland get all the attention? And is Simpson just playing social engineering?
