Tag: High density
RSSAuckland upzoning under the microscope
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Chief Economist at Auckland Council Gary Blick discusses the results of recent ‘upzoning’ across Auckland and its link to improving housing and rental affordability.
Build to Rent housing surges forward
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A dedicated Build to Rent (BTR) tracker, designed to benchmark and measure the new housing model, provides insight into BTR’s climbing numbers in Aotearoa.
Warm walls and good manners
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Bill McKay visits Te Mātāwai, Kāinga Ora’s new mixed-tenure, high-density social housing development in Auckland’s Greys Avenue by Mode Design.
Northbrook: A new ultra-luxury offering for later living
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Designed in collaboration with Woods Bagot, Northbrook is a ‘later living’ development set to offer a level of luxury that developer Winton claims New Zealand has never seen before.
$250 million student village opens: 20 years in the making
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The opening of the country’s largest student accommodation facility is set to boost the infrastructure of New Zealand’s tertiary education sector.
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.
The Shape of mid-density to come
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Han Chen, director of Shape Architects shares his learnings from wearing both an architect’s, and a developer’s hat, and how he and his team work to reconcile the two.
Auckland’s high density housing history
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David Turner, Senior lecturer of Architecture at Unitec, revisits the history of high density housing in our biggest city.