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Designing better futures for Aotearoa New Zealand: He tirohanga Māori, a Māori perspective
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In 2011, the charitable trust that had been established in 2003 to save John Scott’s Futuna Chapel at Karori, Wellington, initiated a lecture series to raise funds for the building’s conservation and pr...
Southern Architecture Awards 2024: Shortlist announced
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Twenty-nine projects have been shortlisted in the 2024 Southern Architecture Awards. The shortlisted projects were selected from entries in the awards programme of the Southern Branch of Te Kāhui Whai...
Objectspace video series explores John Scott pou
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New Zealand modernist icon John Scott and his use of the pou – a central column – in bringing Māori architecture into the mainstream is the latest subject in the series. Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kah...
John Scott-designed Hawke’s Bay home goes up for sale
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A 1988 home designed by legendary New Zealand architect John Scott has recently been put up for sale in Havelock North. This three-bedroom, two-bathroom home is on the market for the first time in 25 ye...
2023 John Scott Award winner: Te Pae North Piha Surf Life-saving Tower
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Jury Commentary / Named Award citation: / “Sometimes functional and pragmatic buildings can elicit a business-as-usual architectural response. This is anything but. Much of the materials and labour we...
Book Review: Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice
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This book is the latest in the Time Honored Architectural Conservation Documentation series, which surveys architectural conservation history and practice in various world regions. Previous volumes ha...
John Scott’s Werry Francis House on the market
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The main three-bedroomed Werry House has many of the signature features of a John Scott (1924–1992) house – concrete block construction, use of exposed timber posts, contrasting ceiling heights and expo...
Significant John Scott drawings gifted to library
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At the wheel was Jacob Scott, eldest son of architect John Scott, accompanied by his brother Adam. In the van were 67 A1 AGFA photographic paper boxes: 50 red, 12 green and five yellow. In the boxes lay...
Book review: John Scott Works
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Disclosure: When I graduated, I wanted to work for John Scott. (I always knew him as John whereas those closer called him Scott or JC.) But after letters and phone calls, we couldn’t ever get it togethe...
Scott Pritchard elected Property Council National Chair
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“I feel very privileged to be taking the reins from John Dakin who’s done an amazing job, particularly through the past year,” he says. “I’m keen to ensure that Property Council continues to have a stro...
Te taura whakairo: the continuing tradition
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The advisors themselves became the founders of Māori modernism: Cath Brown, John Bevan Ford, Ralph Hotere, Fred Graham, Paratene Matchitt, Katarina Mataira, Cliff Whiting and Arnold Wilson, to name a fe...
2022 John Scott Award winner: HomeGround – Auckland City Mission Te Tāpui Atawhai
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Project team: / Nicholas Stevens, Gary Lawson, Joshua Warne, Sasha Hendry, Howie Kang, James Hay, Yvonne Mak, Juliana Budel, Elliott Morgan, Yvette Overdyck, Natalie Keane, Kat Hebden, Barry Tobin, Bhavina Le Grice, Woo Min Lee,
Garvey Cup presented to David Waters of APL
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It has been my mission to bridge the gap between architects and our research and development team, ensuring that the window and door systems we create meet the evolving needs and aspirations of the architectural community.” / Previous ...
Save John Scott’s Aniwaniwa Centre
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Designed by the late Māori architect John Scott, the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre is a Heritage New Zealand Category One Historic Place. The Institute of Architects president Christina van Bohemen says that...
2017 John Scott Award for Public Architecture
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Jury Commentary Lance Herbst, Louise Wright and Jack McKinney / This exquisite chapel is a sensitive insertion into a site with two strong but disparate existing buildings. The ambition of the concept...
Ducks in the decorated shed
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We got off the bus and walked through a delightful McGavock-designed house, noting features similar to those of his former boss, John Scott, and those where he had broken free and expressed new forms an...
2018 John Scott Award for Public Architecture
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Jury Commentary Richard Goldie, Andrea Bell, Amy Muir and John Melhuish / The new chapel at St Andrew’s College overtly references its much-loved quake-ruined predecessor through the incorporation of nu...
Book review: Life of a Building: Futuna
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The book is carefully constructed with David Mitchell offering a personal reading of architect John Scott; Chris Cochran, a full chronology of the genesis and near loss of the building; Futuna Trust gue...
Inaugural Hawkes Bay architecture lecture series
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Nationally recognised works by architects like Louis Hay, John Scott, Len Hoogerbrug, Guy Natusch, Malcolm Sweet, Paris Magdalinos, Peter Holland et al contribute to the region's cultural history. The t...
Distinct and sympathetic: 2019 John Scott Award for Public Architecture
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Christchurch's new central library, Tūranga, was awarded the John Scott Award for Public Architecture by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects at the 2019 New Zealand Architecture Award...
Itinerary: Waitangi and Paihia
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As a collection of buildings, it’s as good as any we have to offer: beautifully preserved early houses, museums telling powerful and still-pertinent stories, work by William Gummer and John Scott, a lov...
Itinerary_ City Guide: Taupō
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It was aligned with the highly geometric work that was produced by several leading New Zealand firms, including Warren and Mahoney and John Blair, before the PoMo impulse swept across the nation. Origin...
2021 New Zealand Architecture Awards Best in Public Architecture: Christchurch Town Hall
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The Christchurch Town Hall was named winner of the 2021 John Scott Award for Public Architecture at this year's New Zealand Architecture Awards. The judges said Warren and Mahoney have breathed new life...
Best in public architecture 2020: Hihiaua Cultural Centre
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The Hihiaua Cultural Centre by Moller Architects was named winner of the 2020 John Scott Award for Public Architecture at this year's New Zealand Architecture Awards. In combining the traditional whare ...
Obituary: Marshall Cook
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School holiday jobs at the local architect’s office introduced him to John Scott and reinforced his enthusiasm for studying architecture. He came to the Auckland School of Architecture in 1959, took tim...
Personal space: Luke Scott
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What I’m reading
/ Ways of Seeing by John Berger. An oldie but a goodie, based on a TV series of the same name. Dean, our creative director, informed me a while back that the fact I studied design and...
Architectural essay writing awarded
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Mr Martin won the Open category of the writing competition, and a $1,500 prize, with his essay on the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre, the John Scott-designed building near Lake Waikaremoana that was recently ...
2020 in Review: Top 5 people
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5. Love and basketball: Michael Vaisigano / This former professional basketball player found love in architecture after studying the works of John Scott. He now works for Ignite Architects' Wellington S...
Recap: NZIA Gold Medallists
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The 2015 New Zealand Architecture Awards are almost upon us, which is an ideal time to reflect on the previous recipients of the NZIA Gold Medal in years past. Below we feature two fascinating videos ...
New issue of Houses out now
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We also look at four fine houses from +MAP Architects, John Mills Architects, Parker Warburton Team Architects, and Dorrington Architects and Associates. We talk to architect Sarah Scott about her work ...