Projects
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4 YEARS AGO
Honestly industrial with a dash of corporate colour and light, bright multi-use spaces, the New Zealand Post House fit-out in Wellington, designed by Jasmax, brings the workplace into the 21st century.
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4 YEARS AGO
Sometimes buildings reveal themselves in ways that are most unexpected. The new mother ship for the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) is just such a building.
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4 YEARS AGO
Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, King Kong, Bats Theatre: if you think one of these things is not like the others, you’d be right.
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4 YEARS AGO
Wellington’s latest luxury property destination of 76 apartments, designed by Athfield Architects, has practically sold out – at prices ranging from around $1.4 million to $3.5 million. And, once inside, you can see why; the views are stunning, the apartment interiors are posh and spacious with generous ceiling heights, and the layouts are flexible with open-plan living/dining areas leading out onto loggia decks.
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4 YEARS AGO
In this series, The New Auckland, Progressive Building looks at some of the developments currently underway to house Auckland’s growing population. In this part, read about a $35 million apartment and retail complex in Auckland’s central business district, which is stage one of a three-stage development.
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4 YEARS AGO
A couple of bikers pedal by heading for the coastal road that goes to Red Rocks and beyond; a seal colony is a draw card for locals and tourists in the winter months. Coastal recreation around the capital city is growing in popularity.
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4 YEARS AGO
Let’s face it, there’s a lot the world needs: a cure for cancer, an Israel-Palestine peace accord, another series of Breaking Bad. What it doesn’t need are dark, drab corporate buildings with poor flow and even less personality.
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4 YEARS AGO
Beside one of the Kapiti Coast’s popular surf beaches sits a new 25-metre-long swimming-pool complex, complete with bright-blue hydroslide.
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4 YEARS AGO
Aaksen Responsible Aarchitecture has recently finished a residential project in Jakarta named Vinyasa House. This dwelling is located at a housing precinct that borders Jakarta with its satellite city, Depok. A typical suburban house in this neighbourhood has rectangular structures and a pitched roof, so among such uniform facades, Vinyasa House stands out with its towering geometric mass.
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4 YEARS AGO
Studio Pacific Architecture has rebuilt an innovative building in central Wellington that was the first in the world to be constructed using lead-rubber base isolation as earthquake protection.