2011-07-27 11:40:34 // Andrea Rush
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New York-based landscape architect Ken Smith; urban champion at Auckland Council, Ludo Campbell-Reid; and NZ Institute of Architects president Patrick Clifford are among the experts who converged last week for session one of Unitec’s ‘Forum for the Future’ series. Session one focused on how New Zealand can create more resilient cities and among the opinions thrown around? Auckland is a 21-year-old student, full of potential but it can never make up its mind.
2011-06-01 10:28:48 // Design Daily Team
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Kiwi company ebode is all about building architecturally designed passive solar sustainable homes. And now its has upped its eco credentials a little more by becoming the first carbon neutral-certified home design and build company in New Zealand, achieving carboNZeroCert certification.
2010-11-23 17:12:28 // Design Daily Team
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A rainwater storage feature that resembles a giant pebble and an amplifier—taking its influence from insects and adjusts to a listeners musical instincts—are two of the unique and innovative projects featured as part of Unitec’s annual grad show exhibition, opening tomorrow. Here's a sneak peak...
2010-08-30 15:06:19 // Design Daily Team
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Dina Krunic is from “everywhere and nowhere.” The Belgrade-born architect is ordinarily based in Los Angeles, but has recently been enjoying a brief stay in Auckland as a guest lecturer at Unitec. Her internationally oriented lifestyle seems to parallel her research interests in the field of architecture and digital technologies. Network culture, global world, temporality and impermanence are some of the descriptors used to explain her unorthodox approach to architecture.
