Architecture NZ

Architecture New Zealand is the journal for New Zealand’s architects. For over fifty years it has been at the centre of the profession – keeping architects informed, inspired and engaged with reviews of the latest projects, insightful commentary on key issues and critical discussion of practice matters.

Architecture NZ

Burn the house down

Conjuring the sublime

To draw is to err

A HOME, 150 YEARS IN THE MAKING

THEATRE DESIGN PROJECT PLACES SECOND IN WORLD

WELLINGTON SCHOOL REACHES 50-YEAR MILESTONE

FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS • Mark Leong reflects on Francis Kéré’s recent Futuna lecture series in Aotearoa and the ways in which simplicity, innovation and participation underpin his design philosophy.

ESSAY FROM INDIA 2 • Five years after his first Essay from India, Jeremy Smith continues the conversation about the country’s reductive approach to architecture, seemingly coming full circle to life and building as it was before tech and WiFi.

OBITUARY: BRIAN AITKEN 1945 – 2025 • Brad Luke pays tribute to his Peddlethorp colleague, mentor and friend, and one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most accomplished architects.

ON STORAGE AND STUFF • Anthony Vile discusses spatial minimums, consumerism and life in medium-density housing.

AFTER THE RAIN: PRESERVING TIMBER • In the third of a six-part series, Andrew Barrie examines the recovery and re-use of native timber and its implications for our wider circular economy.

Conversation creates • Dave Morgan reflects on 85 years of architecture, spatial design and virtual reality at CPRW, and the new direction the studio is embracing.

Work

Of quadrangles, cloisters and corbels • Ian Lochhead examines the blending of the new with the old in Athfield Architects’ strengthening, conservation and refurbishment of Christchurch Boys’ High School’s Main Block.

Holding memories • Guy Marriage navigates the $290-million Te Rua Archives New Zealand in Wellington, the magnificently sculpted, base isolated and airtight storehouse of our country’s culture by Warren and Mahoney in collaboration with Tihei, led by Rangi Kipa.

Making shadows • Jeremy Smith talks to Lynda Simmons about her practice of slow architecture, embodied in two pavilion additions at Onetangi, Waiheke Island.

KARLA DEVINE • Founder of Wellington-based House Party Interiors Karla Devine creates dynamic, expressive spaces that reflect the unique personalities of her clients.

2025 New Zealand Architecture Awards • This year’s New Zealand Architecture Awards jury was headed by Craig Moller of Moller Architects. Moller was joined by Beth Cameron from Makers of Architecture, Nicola Herbst of Herbst Architects and Ilana Freadman from Freadman White Architects in Melbourne, Australia. The jury visited 61 short-listed projects across 11 categories during August.

STRiP MALL

303 REMUERA ROAD

BNZ PLACE

TE WHARE O REHUA SARJEANT GALLERY

CHAPEL OF THE UPPER ROOM - RENOVATIONS & STRENGTHENING

TE RUAMĀTATORU - HE WHATA KAI

ADAM ART GALLERY (1999)

TABAK HOUSE (1984)

CRAIG HOUSE (1998)

NGĀ MOKOPUNA

AUT TUKUTUKU

HIWA - UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND RECREATION AND WELLNESS CENTRE

POPADICH HOUSE

OPENFIELD HOUSE

BUSH BLOCK

KAKA POD

CATALINA BAY APARTMENTS

ALBERON

BERHAMPORE PERIMETER HOUSE

WAINUI CHURCH CONVERSION

TE ĀHURU MŌWAI

PUNAKAIKI VISITOR CENTRE

TE ARA PEKAPEKA

GEORGE STREET, DUNEDIN RETAIL QUARTER

TE MĀNIA

SUGARLOAF AT FLOCKHILL

WALKER BOX

KARANGA CHANGING SHEDS

BB HOUSE

ROUND-UP FROM CRAIG MOLLER

City Guide: Porirua

Olveston: Portrait of a...