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4 YEARS AGO
Anthony Brand meets Groupwork's Amin Taha, discusses the rise of ‘amnesic architecture’ at an Oxford conference about memory and place, and finds several practices using narratives about material traces to counter the trend.
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4 YEARS AGO
Jeremy Smith had a hectic 2019. Hard on the heels of his Essay from America, traversing several United States schools of architecture, he reports from Kerala, India, as international juror and keynote speaker at the Indian Institute of Architects’ National Awards for Excellence in Architecture 2019.
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4 YEARS AGO
The unearthing of a single personal letter in the early 1980s was powerful enough to destabilise one of the foundations of Western conceptual art history, reminding us again of the power of printed media to subvert or revise established canons.
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4 YEARS AGO
One of the many things we didn’t see coming with the arrival of COVID-19 to our shores was the nationwide protest on Queen’s Birthday in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. Sparked by the brutal video of George Floyd’s death – a sickening public lynching – it’s not surprising that so many would want to take a stand against such inhumanity.
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4 YEARS AGO
With its location being in Ubud, Bali, Titik Dua Ubud Hotel has the potential to position itself as a destination hotel. What is more interesting is that this hotel’s location is adjacent to an art gallery, which the architect, andramatin, tries not to interfere. As the main land plot of the hotel is behind the gallery, the architect decided to elevate the entrance and create a 45-metre bridge that sits right above the gallery for the guests to reach the main building.
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4 YEARS AGO
Mark Southcombe explores Athfield Architects’ Waitohi Johnsonville Library and Community Hub and finds a building that prioritises placemaking and connections to the urban context.
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4 YEARS AGO
Some of the intricate furniture and lighting pieces by New York’s Apparatus studio are now available in New Zealand through ECC. To coincide with this, the firm’s co-founders, Gabriel Hendifar and Jeremy Anderson, give us a tour of their maximalist and highly detailed loft apartment.
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4 YEARS AGO
The people, places and ideas changing our cities one enclave at a time: The Scrap Yard is a small-but-potent commercial development on a back street in Auckland’s Grey Lynn.
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4 YEARS AGO
Andrew Barrie investigates Jasmax’s new Western Springs College and Ngā Puna o Waiōrea Campus and finds spatially exciting buildings at a dramatic scale but he wonders where all the ‘stuff’ has gone.
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4 YEARS AGO
Overlooking a sacred pā site, this Dunedin home by Mason and Wales Architects responds to its sweeping views and the needs of a growing family with considered planning and humble forms.
