New Zealand Institute of Architects - Latest News [Page 2]
Meeting on the future of Wellington Central Library
Monday, 8 July 2019, 1:49 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
A public meeting will be held next week to discuss the fate of Wellington Central Library, which is closed while the city council considers what to do with the seismically vulnerable building. More >>
Annual architectural writing competition open for entries
Monday, 24 June 2019, 11:24 am | New Zealand Institute of Architects
There are two entry categories, Open and Secondary School students, the winners of which receive prizes of $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. Several highly commended awards, each of $500, will also be made. The deadline for entries is 22 September ... More >>
CITY TALKS: Te Aro Pa Greta Point//10 June//Free
Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 7:36 am | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Te Aro Pā descendants have finally built homes on their ancestral land 140 years after the original settlement was lost. The process to find a new site required a lengthy land swap ne-gotiation with Wellington City Council, then followed a complicated ... More >>
City Talks: Looking at Care another way
Monday, 4 March 2019, 3:18 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Data driven design and patient centred aged care practices from the Netherlands and New Zealand. Marian and Jan Westrate use the principles of Omdenken (flip-thinking) to illustrate the Dutch way of designing for and caring for their elderly. Omdenken ... More >>
Architects conference attracts top global talent
Monday, 10 December 2018, 10:06 am | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Eleven leading international architects will address the New Zealand Institute of Architects’ biennial conference in Auckland next February. The Institute’s President, Auckland architect Tim Melville, said the lineup of speakers will be one of the strongest ... More >>
Architectural promise revealed in 2018 Student Design Awards
Monday, 3 December 2018, 11:04 am | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Victoria University of Wellington’s Emily Newmarch has won the top prize in the annual competition for final year students at New Zealand’s three Schools of Architecture. The Student Design Awards programme, which is staged by the New Zealand Institute ... More >>
Architecture profession mourns passing of Maurice Mahoney
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 1:27 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Maurice Mahoney, one of New Zealand’s most distinguished post-war architects, has died in Christchurch aged 89. Mahoney, who passed away on 31 October, formed with Sir Miles Warren one of the country’s most successful and prolific architectural ... More >>
Winners of 2018 architecture writing competition announced
Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 9:04 am | New Zealand Institute of Architects
A Whangārei architecture graduate and a South Korean high school student have won the top awards in New Zealand’s annual architectural writing competition. More >>
‘Future Islands’, to be shown at Ara Institute of Canterbury
Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 2:29 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
From 6 September 2018 ‘Future Islands’, New Zealand’s second Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition, will go on show at Ara Institute of Canterbury’s Kahukura Building. More >>
Government must fix its broken procurement process
Friday, 17 August 2018, 9:50 am | New Zealand Institute of Architects
The inefficient, inconsistent and ineffective ways in which the Government is procuring public buildings could be costing New Zealand many millions of dollars a year, according to a report commissioned by the New Zealand Institute of Architects. More >>
Call for entries for 2018 architecture essay competition
Wednesday, 13 June 2018, 9:11 am | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Entries are invited into this year’s Warren Trust Awards for Architectural Writing. The annual writing competition, organised by the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) with the support of the Warren Trust, has two entry categories: open and secondary ... More >>
City Talks - Bridges & Pathways: Small Practice and the City
Wednesday, 30 May 2018, 2:27 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Bridges & Pathways: Small Practice and the City City Gallery Wellington, Civic Square Monday 18 June, 6pm Free entry More >>
Tim Melville announced as President of NZIA
Thursday, 24 May 2018, 9:51 am | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Auckland architect Tim Melville has taken up the role of President of the New Zealand Institute of Architects and will serve a two-year term of office until May 2020. More >>
Andrew Patterson Gold Medal Lecture tour
Thursday, 3 May 2018, 9:31 am | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Andrew Patterson, the latest recipient of New Zealand architecture’s premier award, the Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal for career achievement, this week embarks on a nationwide series of lectures about his work. More >>
NZ architecture mourns the passing of David Mitchell
Friday, 27 April 2018, 8:27 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
David Mitchell, one of the most accomplished, respected and fondly regarded figures in New Zealand architecture, died in Auckland on 26 April, at the age of 77. More >>
2018 Festival of Architecture curator announced
Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 1:53 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
The New Zealand Institute of Architects has announced that Jeremy Hansen, former editor of Paperboy and Home New Zealand, will curate the public programme of the 2018 Festival of Architecture. The nationwide Festival, which will include presentations, ... More >>
Winner announced in top architecture students award
Friday, 1 December 2017, 1:31 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Lucy Vete of the University of Auckland has won the annual design competition for final year students from the country’s schools of architecture. More >>
Architectural writing awards announced
Thursday, 2 November 2017, 12:00 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
UK-based writer Anna Kate Blair and Auckland student Piper Whitehead have won the top prizes in New Zealand’s annual architectural writing competition. More >>
‘Architecture Matters’ in Nelson
Tuesday, 5 September 2017, 2:43 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
At 7.30, Monday 11 September, Nelson’s Suter Gallery hosts Architecture Matters – a free event that will provide an opportunity for the public to learn about how important new Nelson buildings are being designed, how a Nelson based architect is ... More >>
Politicians offer remedies for the homesick blues
Wednesday, 30 August 2017, 1:42 pm | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Seeking to refocus the attentions of voters on one of the main issues confronting the country, the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) is holding a pre-election housing debate in Auckland next Wednesday (6 September). More >>