Park Structures in Mapua

Park Structures in Mapua

Design: Irving Smith Architects. The government remediation of New Zealand’s “most contaminated site”, a former chemical fertilizer plant in the small rural town of Mapua, left the site bare, emotionally scarred, unused and fiscally under resourced.

Library and Exhibition Centre Whakatane

Library and Exhibition Centre

Design: Irving Smith Architects. Following recent development of new commercial outlets away from Whakatane’s town centre, Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre relocates public facilities back into the centre to revitalize an area of big box retail and carparking left devoid of urban life.

NMIT Arts & Media Nelson, NZ

NMIT Arts and Media

Design: Irving Smith Architects. This innovative timber building provides an uplifting environment for learning; an economic community asset and a sustainable solution to the provision of tertiary education facilities.

Bonita Room Alteration in New Zealand

Bonita Room

Design: Irving Smith Architects. An architect’s house is a thing to play with, a bit like life. Perhaps even more so when its an architecture inherited almost unchanged from Alec Bowman’s original 1960 design for a retired couple, and now in dire need of simple things like a kitchen, spaces to fit a family, and a connection to the garden.

Alexandra Tent House New Zealand

Alexandra Tent House

A NZ house design by Irving Smith Architects in a frontier environment and set to encourage freedom as a super-insulated and permanent tent within an inland southern New Zealand basin: Alexandra Tent House.

New Central Library in Christchurch

Christchurch New Central Library 1

The New Central Library, Christchurch Building, New Zealand Architecture, Images The New Central Library NZ South Island Building – design by Architectus and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects 27 Apr 2015 The New Central Library in Christchurch Design: Architectus and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Location: Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand The New Central Library (NCL) is … Read more

Marine Parade Auckland Building

Marine Parade House, Auckland

Marine Parade Auckland: built in the 1970s, this cedar-clad home with its multi-gabled roof was typical of an era when split-level design was the height of architectural acuity.

Waiatarua House, Auckland Property

Waiatarua House, Auckland property

Waiatarua House: The brief was for a new house on a challenging, steep site in a bush clad creek gully. One of the design challenges was to insert a bold intervention into a sensitive bush reserve whilst still maintaining a sense of modesty and poetic.

Quay Street Redevelopment, Auckland

Quay Street Redevelopment, Auckland

Quay Street Redevelopment, Auckland Master Plan, New Zealand Architecture Quay Street Redevelopment, Auckland New Zealand Architecture Development – NZ Master Plan, City Centre Project 30 Jul 2014 Auckland City Centre Master Plan Auckland Council seeks designers for redevelopment of Quay Street Auckland Council is seeking proposals from designers to assist with the future redevelopment of … Read more

ASB North Wharf – Auckland Building

ASB North Wharf

Design: BVN Donovan Hill with Jasmax

The New Zealand Architecture Medal is the highest architectural honour in New Zealand and is conferred upon just one project that is considered superlative.

ASB North Wharf in Auckland by Australian architects BVN Donovan Hill in association with New Zealand architects Jasmax received this coveted prize at the New Zealand Architecture Awards announced in Auckland on 9 May.

Christchurch New Central Library

Christchurch New Central Library 1

Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects + Architectus

Danish schmidt hammer lassen architects and New Zealand based Architectus have won the commission to design the New Central Library in Christchurch, New Zealand. The new library, which will be up to approximately 12,000 square metres, will be one of the anchor projects in the Recovery Plan for the city of Christchurch after the damaging earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.

Winsomere Cres Auckland, New Zealand

Winsomere Cres House 5

Design: Dorrington Architects & Associates. A contemporary home incorporates the charming but time-worn house, and capitalises on the stunning views on offer. The original house on this waterfront site was a double-skin brick bungalow with warren-like rooms and little connection with the foreshore.

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki wins World Building of the Year at World Architecture Festival 2013: A striking, beautiful building that is dominated by its oversailing roof shaped like fingers reaching out into the sky.

Waterfall Bay House, Marlborough Sounds

Waterfall Bay House - New Zealand Residence

Waterfall Bay House New Zealand: In a remote bay in the Marlborough Sounds this house emphasises the steepness of the topography. Set close to the water it runs along the contour as a two storey primary element incorporating living areas above and guest rooms below.