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The Time Traveller’s Guide to Hamilton Gardens
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Peter Sergel’s new book, The Time Traveller’s Guide to Hamilton Gardens, is the story of how a rubbish dump was transformed into a world-class attraction.
Book: Sheppard & Rout Architects Vol 1 1982–2021
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Architect Jeremy Smith reviews the first volume covering Sheppard & Rout Architects’ first 39-years navigating “a much-ado-about-everything calling”.
Book Review: Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice
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Graeme McConchie reviews the latest book in the Time Honored Architectural Conservation Documentation series.
Rewi Thompson exhibition opens at Sir Miles Warren Gallery
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KOHA: The speculative worlds of architect Rewi Thompson, an exhibition curated by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen, launches in Christchurch.
Book: Server Manifesto: Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy
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This little book sets out to consider the ways in which our public places could use open-sourced data positively and discusses how cities must reconsider what makes them smart.
Artificial Islands
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John Walsh reviews Artificial Islands by Owen Hatherley — a writer who found our capital to be “small and dull” and Auckland’s architecture to be “baffling”.
Book review: Unfinished & Far Far Away: The Architecture of Irving Smith Architects
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John Walsh reviews Unfinished & Far Far Away: The Architecture of Irving Smith Architects which looks at 10 projects led by Jeremy Smith and Andrew Irving.
Giles Reid and Mary Gaudin publish Withers House
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Giles Reid and Mary Gaudin publish Withers House.
Ornament is not a crime: Contemporary interiors with a postmodern twist
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The new book by Rebecca Gross looks at how the themes underlying Postmodernism and Memphis are making a comeback. We have one copy to giveaway!
Book review: Rewi
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Deidre Brown reviews Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake’s latest collaboration Rewi, detailing Rewi Thompson’s contribution to architecture.
Book review: HomeGround. The Story of a Building that Changes Lives
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Bill McKay reviews Simon Wilson’s 2022 book HomeGround. The story of a Building that Changes Lives which discusses a new Auckland City landmark.
Book review: Speculative Coolness: Architecture, Media, the Real, and the Virtual
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Daniel K Brown reviews Bryan Cantley’s latest book Speculative Coolness: Architecture, Media, the Real, and the Virtual, and believes it is a tour de force in speculative architectural representation.
Book review: Henry Kulka
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Graeme Burgess reviews Henry Kulka, a book by Giles Reid and Mary Gaudin, and believes the book honours
Kulka’s contribution to the world of architecture and to architecture in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Supertight: New insights into high density living
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A new book by Graham Crist and John Doyle challenges Australasian views of high density living through their research in high-density environments in Asia.
Supertight: An exploration of high-density urban living
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Professors of architecture and the brains behind the book Supertight talk about their research on the benefits of high density building typologies and implementing spatial quality in these environments.
Itinerary: Aotearoa New Zealand architecture books, 2022
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In this month’s Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Julia Gatley lists 16 must-read architecture books published in 2022 by New Zealanders.
New publication: Shifting Foundations
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Several members of the NZIA, along with other city-makers, have published a book documenting architecture in Ōtautahi Christchurch following the 2010–2011 earthquakes.
Book review: The New Queensland House
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Christopher Kelly reviews the large-format book, edited by Cameron Bruhn and Katelin Butler, and finds it offers plenty on which Kiwis can make use of, in our burgeoning cities.
Review: Rooms: Portraits of Remarkable New Zealand Interiors
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Marian Macken finds captivating portraits by Jane Ussher of over 300 interiors, with text from John Walsh providing an intriguing biography about each space.
Review: Medium
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Stuart Niven considers Guy Marriage’s latest book Medium, on medium-density housing in Aotearoa.