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| NZIA Graphisoft Student Design Awards |
| Friday, November 27, 2009 |
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A design for a ‘neighbourly’ high-rise apartment building has won Simon Harrison the New Zealand Institute of Architects Graphisoft Student Design Award 2009. Simon, 33, who studied at Victoria University of Wellington, fought off strong competition from fellow finalists from the country’s three schools of architecture, to take the title of New Zealand’s top architecture student for his final-year project. [More ...] |
| Room to Think |
| Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
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While we often hear stories about what a blight we humans are on this planet, we can also make fabulous contributions to aesthetic beauty. Great architecture is one such contribution and while the prevailing modern attitude prefers architecture that hides or at least blends into its environment, the Home NZ magazine BMW Home of the Year, by Mitchell Stout Architects, does no such thing. It stands as an emphatic statement reminding us that architecture is capable of hugely enriching its location. Auckland, 13th October - Mitchell Stout Architects have gained something of a reputation for being ‘thinking’ architects – that is they are known for bringing an uncommonly cerebral attitude to their work. This made them a perfect fit when their future clients, an academically inclined couple, came knocking. The couple had a unique idea that drew the architects to the project. “They wanted a room to think in,” says David Mitchell. “We’d never been asked for one of those before.” [More ...] |
| Form that doesn’t conform |
| Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
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Architect Uche Isichei designed this radical Wellington house for one of the team at Weta Digital and his wife. While Isichei started the project using traditional architectural models, the client’s passion for technology lead to Isichei adopting Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD software. Wellington, 15 September – Architecture in the Wellington suburb of Seatoun has traditionally been quite conservative, which didn’t sit well with the creative couple that commissioned Uche Isichei to design their new home. Isichei’s groundbreaking design has turned quite a few heads locally, even gracing the pages of the autumn edition of Houses NZ. [More ...] |
| Stepping up |
| Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
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They say a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client, so what of an architect who designs his own house? Architect Paul Barry’s self-designed house on a Wellington hillside certainly dispels any similar notions with its clever layout and considered design. Wellington, 18 August – After returning with his family from Latin America, architect Paul Barry began looking for a site to build a home. It was just before Christmas – not usually the best time to be looking for property – when he came across a Wellington housing development in receivership. [More ...] |
| BIM Explained by Scott Barrington of Barrington Architecture |
| Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
| This Construction News article explains BIM in a simple and easy to understand language. Scott Barrington outlines what BIM means for architects, engineers/ consultants, building product/ component manufacturers, and developers/ owners/ clients. [More ...] |
| Collaborating with Consultants |
| Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
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3D Transfer between ArchiCAD and Revit Structural The uptake of new technology is not always smooth, but when something works well and provides a clear benefit, architects usually come around pretty quickly. ArchiCAD’s IFC file transfer capabilities fall into this category and more and more architects and engineers are using IFC to exchange 3D data. [More ...] |
| Art for Tauranga’s sake |
| Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
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Much of New Zealand’s national identity emanates from the success of its smaller centres. Tauranga, for example, relies on its summer holiday traffic and port as its primary raison d’être. These factors, along with the thriving kiwifruit business, keep Tauranga’s economy going, but the community needs public spaces like the striking new art gallery to give it a unique identity and make it a desirable place to live. Tauranga, 22 July – It might be a scenario out of a new Thomas Crown Affair screenplay – a 1960s bank, repurposed as an art gallery. But the story here doesn’t involve a daring heist, but rather a daring piece of design, as architects Mitchell & Stout transformed an old BNZ building from the 1960s into a visually rich, contemporary art gallery. [More ...] |
| Modelling Moves to 5D |
| Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
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Palmerston North is the setting for one of New Zealand's first building information modelling 5D projects. Six months into stage 1, the team is impressed with the advantages. [More ...] |
| SunGard Offices, Addington |
| Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
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Winning a Canterbury Award for Commercial Architecture in the 2008 NZIA Resene Local Awards, is Sheppard and Rout’s design for SunGard - a global leader in software and processing solutions for the financial services market. Auckland, February 10th, 2009 – When an enterprising developer saw an opportunity in SunGard and wanted to pitch his site over other contenders, he teamed up with Sheppard and Rout and ArchiCAD to get in quick, get the job done fast, and above all, make an impressive design statement. [More ...] |
| Yellow Treehouse Restaurant |
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 |
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The Yellow Treehouse restaurant was the brainchild of an Auckland advertising agency. The idea was to show that just about anything could be done just by using the services Yellow offer – including building a restaurant up a tree. But since its construction, the treehouse has taken on a life of its own, capturing imaginations both here and around the world, as it spreads across the Internet. Auckland, 20 January 2009 – The Yellow Treehouse restaurant was built on a north-facing site near Warkworth. But this was no ordinary site – it was 10 metres up a 40-metre redwood tree. Architect Peter Eising says his team took into account many unusual considerations when selecting the tree and figuring the logistics. [More ...] |
| Mountain House, Hawera |
| Monday, January 05, 2009 |
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The name “Mountain House” evokes an image of a rugged dwelling built high on the mountainside. In contrast, the project name for this NZIA Resene Local Award winning house was aptly derived from the home’s relationship to the landscape vista that it frames. Auckland, January 5th 2009 – Positioned on an almost flat, exposed, south Taranaki site, each room in this north facing home is designed to capture views of Mt. Taranaki.[More ...] |
| Greytown Town Hall |
| Monday, December 01, 2008 |
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Greytown was one of the first inland settlements in New Zealand and the original wooden town hall had a traditional frontage setback on the main road. Now modernized, the architectural excellence of this refurbishment and addition to an existing structure has been recognized by an NZIA/Resene “Community and Cultural” Architectural Award for Wellington based Architecture Workshop Ltd. Auckland, December 1st 2008 – The Greytown Town Hall was an archetypal community project that, from the beginning, featured all the inherent trials and tribulations of working publicly and cooperatively with the local society.[More ...] |
| Stanley Point House |
| Monday, November 03, 2008 |
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An extremely steep foreshore / cliff top site, protected pohutukawa, and rigid building restrictions imposed by the local district plan, made for a challenging architectural project. The confident solution by Geoff Richards Architects Ltd has brought the company much deserved recognition through an NZIA Resene New Zealand Architectural Award in 2008. Auckland, November 1st 2008 – Positioned on the Ngataringa Bay side of the North Shore’s Stanley Point peninsula, the tricky site for this house demanded a well researched, imaginative, intelligent, sensitive yet workable architectural solution.[More ...] |
| Newlands College, Wellington |
| Monday, September 01, 2008 |
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The Newlands College Art & Language Block was one of two buildings receiving awards in the Education Category of the 2007 NZIA Resene Local Awards, Wellington region. Auckland, September 1st 2008 – The Judges of the 2007 NZIA Resene Local Awards (Wellington region), gave praise to Re-Design Ltd’s architecture in their citation, saying: “The combined challenge of a tight site and a tight budget have been well met with a strong and considered integration of a new contemporary building into the standard NZ secondary Nelson Block school context.” [More ...] |
| Miln House, Papamoa Beach |
| Sunday, August 03, 2008 |
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This contemporary beach front house by Architecture Page Henderson Ltd, won the 2007 Placemakers Supreme Award, (Over $1m Category) in the Tauranga Master Builders ‘House of the Year’ competition for Shaw Builders of Mt Maunganui. Auckland, August 1st 2008 – The Miln house is but one design from the award winning stable of Architecture Page Henderson Ltd. Sitting in the company’s meeting room you cannot help but be impressed by a galleried display of award certificates from the NZIA and others that have been presented to David Page and his team over the years. |
| Mountain View House |
| Monday, July 21, 2008 |
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ArchiCAD helps SGA Ltd breathe light, warmth & vitality into an award winning suburban home. Auckland, July 1st, 2008 - The brief for the ‘Mountain View House’ was to accommodate an elderly and very socially active couple, who required a house intimate enough to occupy by themselves yet able to cater for a constant stream of guests, whilst maximising views. [More ...] |
