Innholdsfortegnelse for March/April 2025 i Architecture NZ

The Pacific52™ Thermal Recessed Frame delivers improved thermal performance by aligning the insulation elements of a building: • The wall insulation• The window/door frame• The glazing within the building’s thermal envelope This prevents cold air from circulating around the frame, reducing heat loss and condensation while ensuring a warmer, more comfortable interior. Heat transfer is further minimised by: • A Polyamide Strip thermal barrier that limits thermal conductivity while increasing thermal efficiency• Expanding foam which protects the thermal break from cool air infiltration and helps ensure any thermal performance gains are realised Core performance aspects • Meets E2/AS1 building code – no custom parts needed• Compatible with most cladding systems for easy installation• Wind performance up to Extra High wind zone• Sleek, contemporary look with clean lines• Dual-colour options for…

There are three remaining lectures in the University of Auckland’s Fast Forward series for Semester One: • Sarosh Mulla, Pac Studio – Pac Studio fun Wednesday 26 March, 6.30pm• Andre de Graaf and Helen Kerr, Isthmus – Creating and meeting demand Wednesday 2 April, 6.30pm • Dr Gill Matthewson, Parlour, Melbourne – The Path to Parlour Wednesday 9 April, 6.30pm To register for the lectures, visit auckland.ac.nz/en/engineering/news-and-events/events/fast-forward.html…

WHAT TO DO WITH A LARGE BLOCK OF LAND, overlooking the river and minutes from the CBD but encumbered with an old chemical testing laboratory and a structurally frail historic building 1 from when horses dominated the high street? It would be reasonable to assume complete demolition of the science lab and a bun fight over the fate of the heritage building. In the hands of Stark Property and Edwards White Architects, however, the former Hills Laboratory has been transformed into Hills Residences, a high-end apartment building for Kirikiriroa Hamilton’s budding inner urbanites. Making the most of a sweet spot on the eastern bank of Waikato Te Awa, alongside restaurant-studded Grey Street and adjacent Victoria Bridge into the city, Hills Residences is part of a bigger master plan – Hills…

LOCATION 6 Boundary Road, Hobsonville Point  SITE AREA 2480m 2  FLOOR AREA 14,750m 2 STOREYS 13 TIME SCHEDULE Design, documentation: 12 months  Construction: 26 months ARCHITECT Architectus  PROJECT TEAM Patrick Clifford, Shane Parker, James Craig, Matthew Finn, Maggie Xu, Frank Coleman, Michael Thomson, Severin Soder, Rebecca Lawton, Lusi Vete, Warren Nicholson, Liam Donaldson, Sara Nazem, Chirag Jindal, John Strand, Paul Millard, Kevin Park BUILDER LT McGuinness STRUCTURAL ENGINEER BGT Structures MEP ENGINEER Mott MacDonald  LANDSCAPING O2 Landscapes INTERIORS Architectus LIGHTING iLight  QUANTITY SURVEYOR Kingstons GEOTECHNICAL CONSULTANT KGA Geotechnical FIRE CONSULTANT Jensen Hughes ACOUSTICS Marshall Day Acoustics PROJECT MANAGER RCP FIRE PROTECTION CONSULTANT Protech Design HOMESTAR CONSULTANT eCcubed Building Workshop MAINTENANCE ACCESS CONSULTANT Alta Safety  LIFT CONSULTANT Vertrans SEISMIC ENGINEER KCL Engineering Services ROOFS RoofLogic CLADDING GIB, Canterbury Clay Bricks, Symonite,…

West Auckland-based iwi Te Kawerau ā Maki is soon to be re-established on its whenua at Te Henga Bethells Beach. Having suffered firstly during the 1820s’ musket raids and then again during colonisation – the Crown had acquired most of West Auckland by 1854 – the iwi was left practically landless by the 1950s. Its last kāinga and marae at Kōpironui (Woodhill) and Waiti (Te Henga) were lost during this time. The Monk Mackenzie-designed Te Henga Kāinga Whakahirahira marae and papakāinga represents a significant milestone in the iwi’s cultural revival; the project is made up of a suite of both residential and communal buildings, as well as an extensive ecosystem revitalisation scheme to regenerate whenua currently overrun with introduced species. “The buildings have been designed with an ecological focus, leaving…

Season 2 of Faultline Films’ The Drawing Board is screening on Sundays at 7.30pm on Whakaata Māori and Māori+ and is once again hosted by Derek Kawiti, Professor of Architecture at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University. The eight-episode series, asking “What does contemporary Māori architecture look like?”, features Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery, Pā Reo at Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Wairahi marae, Te Taumata o Kupe, The Pā, Te-Matau-a-Māui, Wai Ariki Hot Springs and Spa and Ngā Mokopuna at Te Herenga Waka.…

SITE PLAN 1 SARJEANT GALLERY 2 ALEXANDER HERITAGE & RESEARCH LIBRARY 3 WHANGANUI DISTRICT LIBRARY 4 POLICE STATION 5 CENOTAPH 6 WHANGANUI REGIONAL MUSEUM 7 WHANGANUI WAR MEMORIAL CENTRE KO TE AWA TE MĀTĀPUNA O TE ORA. The river is the source of spiritual and physical sustenance. Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery Te Pātaka o Tā Te Atawhai Archie John Taiaroa celebrates provision for the Arts as a type of spiritual kai. The Sarjeant Gallery story is already epic, infusing Aotearoa New Zealand cultural and architectural history with generosity, quality and intrigue. Important to this story were the 1916 Samuel Hurst Seager consultation on the Queen’s Park Civic Precinct planning, the top side lighting of museums and galleries, and the original open architectural competition. The outstanding neoclassical design submitted under…

THE TELEVISION BURBLED away in the background: the evening news. I was trying to head off a rook/bishop trap my former flatmate had set. Such was his confidence in the inescapable array he had established on the board that his attention shifted as I squirmed. He shared his thoughts on the many failures of the building into which he had just recently moved. I seized on the conversation, saved from my predicament on the board between us by this shift, the game forgotten as the newsreader announced that the very building my opponent had been discussing had just received an Institute of Architects award. With the confidence of ignorance, I proclaimed the absurdity of awarding a building with so many obvious failures, whereupon my opponent challenged me to do something…

Presented by Te Pūtahi, the annual Open Christchurch festival is set to return on 2–4 May with a selection of the city’s best buildings and designed spaces for attendees to explore. This year’s programme, the largest to date, includes 51 buildings, five guided walks, four free-standing architectural structures and two designed landscapes, as well as a host of talks, tours, exhibitions and activities. Benjamin Mountfort works, such as the Former Addington Gaol and The Christchurch Club, are celebrated in recognition of the bicentenary of his birth, as is design excellence in performance spaces – attendees will be amongst the first to check out the Court Theatre, which is due to open that weekend. Other highlights during the festival include the flamboyant Peter Beaven design, Chateau on the Park, and the…

Designwell creative director Alexander Wastney describes the careful balancing act of designing a space that is part showroom, part workplace and part hospitality venue. What was your brief for this project? Harrows is a family-owned New Zealand business, which designs and makes tailored commercial furniture “crafted for connection”. The team wanted its new showroom to embody its ambition to be the champion of social spaces. Harrows’ core customers – designers and architects – needed a space where they can inspire clients and experiment with diverse furniture solutions. What was the thinking behind your design? Our vision was to create an immersive customer experience where clients could easily transition between different social settings, and mix and match furniture items. Flexibility was key, not only to adapt to larger events but also…

SITE PLAN 1 PUNANGAIRI 2 LAWN 3 PAPAROA EXPERIENCE 4 CAR PARK 5 EXISTING COMMERCIAL/RETAIL 6 SERVICES EVEN IN OUR IMAGE-SATURATED WORLD, the aerial photos of Punakaiki’s new visitor centre Punangairi are undeniably spectacular. Nestled within the subtropical rainforest of Paparoa National Park and topped by a living roof, Sheppard & Rout’s design both blends into and contrasts with the natural surrounds of Dolomite Point and the nearby Pancake Rocks like a spaceship in camouflage. The journey to Punakaiki from both the north and the south winds along a coastline of raw nature. As you round the bend into Dolomite Point, your first glimpse of Punangairi is a forest of vertical columns set amongst established nīkau, topped with a slim aluminium-clad barge. Peeking over the top of this glistening barge…

LOCATION 4 Pukenamu Drive, Whanganui FLOOR AREA 4400m 2 STOREYS Three TIME SCHEDULE Design, documentation: 24 months Construction: 54 months ARCHITECT Warren and Mahoney PROJECT TEAM Ralph Roberts, Cliff Leong, Emelia Atkins, Hester Paul, Jenny Mikoz, Savanah Hunt CULTURAL DESIGN PARTNER Te Kāhui Toi o Tūpoho HERITAGE ARCHITECT Chris Cochran and Russell Murray BUILDER McMillan & Lockwood Construction STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Clendon Burns & Park HYDRAULIC ENGINEER NDY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Pacific Consultants ELECTRICAL ENGINEER BlackYARD Group LANDSCAPING Warren and Mahoney  QUANTITY SURVEYOR RLB FIRE CONSULTANT Origin Fire Consultants PROJECT MANAGER RCP CIVIL ENGINEER WSP ROOFING Equus WAKA BRIDGE AND TIMBER HANDRAILS Naturally Wood by design  FAÇADE GLAZING AND SKYLIGHTS Wight Aluminium EXTENSION FAÇADE TILING Trethewey Stone, Laticrete SEISMIC JOINT SYSTEM Balco HERITAGE STONEWORK Goldfield Stone INTERIOR DAYLIGHTING Kalwall INTERIOR FLOORING Jacobsen…

AS WE WALK DOWNHILL ON LAUNCH ROAD towards the water, the morning sun is shining, a surging Waitematā tide is high and the cicadas are in full voice – a summer din, signalling all is well, at least in this idyllic-looking part of the world. On our left are the Catalina Bay Apartments at Hobsonville Point – two towers by Architectus rising from the seabed below. I hazard a description. “It’s very modernist?” “Yes,” says Architectus principal Patrick Clifford. “Almost brutalist?” “Woah.” I’ve gone too far. “By that I mean it’s very honest in its expression of structure and materials,” I scramble. “I would say muscular; it’s got a bit of strength,” suggests Architectus associate principal Shane Parker. “It’s got quite a strong grid,” agrees Clifford. It has. An underlying…

30 November 2024 – 16 March 2025 Objectspace, Auckland If you haven’t noticed, there’s a movement rising. The groundswell is gathering force. And here, in little Aotearoa, we keep finding ourselves right in the heart of it – sometimes charging ahead at the front, sometimes holding the door open and stepping aside so our global kin can fill the room. This movement I speak of is the global revolution of Indigenous architecture: a force that is resistant, ambitious, gentle, sometimes fragile, yet resilient – insistent and unyielding. It is the quiet but persistent power of indigenuity (indigenous ingenuity), reclaiming spaces that have long tried – and still try – to erase our presence through the global imperial colonial project. Objectspace has done it again, holding open the door with generosity…