What We Make & How We Work

Interview with Harriet Compton Richards

Principal of Young + Richards Ltd and judge of the NZ Wood Timber Design Awards for the last two years, Harriet Compton Richards is passionately committed to innovative design and construction with timber, a material she believes New Zealand has the capacity to lead in contemporary construction methods. I spoke to her about the Awards, and working with wood in New Zealand.

10 Dec, 2009 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: design, green, industry

In Conversation with Nick Leckie, Incoming President of SANNZ.

Incoming President for the Student Architecture Network of New Zealand, debonair Nick Leckie shared some insight into the hard-working, hard-playing network for all students of architecture in NZ.

17 Dec, 2009 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: industry, SANNZ, student

Urban Design Family

Urban Adapter features in the current Shenzen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, by Rocker Lange Architects.

12 Jan, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: architecture, biennale, technology

Some Things in the Air

A quick snapshot of some news: HNZ dubiousness, Queens Wharf revivals, Venice Biannele catalysts and Plant Room cheekiness.

11 Feb, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: architecture, biennale, event

Productspec speaks with Andy Buchanan

Professor of Civil Engineering at Canterbury University, and member of the NZ Wood management, Andy Buchanan speaks on material developments which can and should be saving more lives.

15 Feb, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: construction, interview, research

Mapping Architectural Controversy

Actor-Network Theory visualisation techniques are experimentally applied to architectural controversies, offering new cohesive insight into architecture and societal relationships.

24 Mar, 2010 By Byron comment icon [1] Tags: architecture, ideas, university

Autodesk Launches HomeStyler, Online Home Design Software

Homestyler is a new 3D Design platform from Autodesk offering a free and highly accessible CAD tool to the public, ideal for visualisation and refurbishment planning.

19 Apr, 2010 By Byron comment icon [1] Tags: CAD, design, digital

New Productspec BRANZ functionality

Productspec has been working closely with BRANZ to offer a new functionality helping Architects and Specifiers to more easily access BRANZ appraisals throughout Productspec.

10 May, 2010 By Byron comment icon [1] Tags: architecture, productivity, productspec

Is something happening with architecture nz?

The last few issues of 'architecture nz' seems out of the ordinary, with more bite, more frustration and some unexpected articles.

28 May, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: book, education, research

Productspec Revit models now in Virtual Showroom

Check out this nifty application from vTourInteractive, who have created a digital showroom for users to browse Revit files available through Productspec.

14 Jul, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: CAD, digital, productspec

Geodata at your Digital Fingertips

Developed in New Zealand, Koordinates has become The Place to find geodata, so long as you're using it fairly, it's a data goldmine.

22 Jul, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: google, mapping, website

The Unaccounted

Errol J Haarhoff, Professor of Architecture at the University of Auckland, has published a new survey of NZ architecture graduates, revealing some great relationships between the architectural institutions of NZ.

5 Aug, 2010 By Byron comment icon [4] Tags: architects, research, student

Archived New Zealand Design Review Digitised

Published by the Wellington Architectural Centre between 1948 and 1954, the Design Review was a refreshingly ambitious and broad-spectrum journal, now made available in full by Victoria University's Electronic Text Centre.

1 Sep, 2010 By Byron comment icon [0] Tags: architecture, website, wellington
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