Tag: Museums | Architecture Now

Te Ao Mārama: Exit at the hokohoko

Projects | In the last in our series, Amanda Harkness visits Te Ao Mārama’s retail and hospitality offerings, designed by Ignite in association with Studio Pasifika, and Jack McKinney Architects, and finds evidence of artful adaptation and reuse.

First look: Auckland War Memorial Museum South Atrium

Projects | Take a look inside Te Ao Mārama, the South Atrium of the Auckland museum, which has been closed for 18 months and prepares to open its doors to the public on 3 December.

Trilingual: Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom

Projects | See the only trilingual museum in Aotearoa: part of a modest-but-vibrant, multi-purpose community hub in Foxton.

Letting the light in: Hayward Gallery

Projects | London’s famous Brutalist architectural icon, the Hayward Gallery in the Southbank Centre, gets transformed.

Unifying art and science

Review | Colin Martin visited Amanda Levete’s new Exhibition Road Quarter project at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Mk Haley to ignite imagination through talks at Te Papa

Mk Haley to give talks at Te Papa

Calendar | Public Event, Wellington City, 2 May 2017
Mk Haley, creative program manager at Walt Disney’s Imagineering, will talk at Mahuki, Te Papa’s innovation hub on 2 May.

A temple of design

Review | Colin Martin visited John Pawson’s new revitalisation of the spectacular Design Museum in London.

Mahuki: connected museums

Review | Melissa Firth discusses Mahuki – the world’s first culture sector acceleration programme, based at Wellington’s Te Papa.

Te Kōngahu / Museum of Waitangi

Projects | Harris Butt Architecture’s museum is a subtle addition to a cluster of important buildings that discuss New Zealand’s history.

Open conversation: Waitangi Museum

Projects | Exhibition design and architecture driven by lofty ideals of biculturalism and dialogue.

The waka huia

Projects | Federico Monsalve speaks to Grant Harris of Harris Butt Architects about his recently completed Waitangi Museum.

Inside the Len Lye

Projects | Is it possible to create a space that captures, frames and celebrates the constant movement of Len Lye’s work?

A storehouse of knowledge

Review | A look at contemporary museum design; as interesting and creative as the cultural and historical artifacts housed within.

Inside the Len Lye Centre

News | A sneak preview at the much-anticipated Len Lye Centre, due to open in New Plymouth on Saturday 25 July.

MTG Hawke’s Bay

Projects | Opus Architecture has amalgamated a complex series of buildings from different eras on Napier’s 150-year-old museum site.

Auckland Art Gallery redevelopment

Projects | After a redevelopment involving one million man hours of work, the Auckland Art Gallery is almost complete.