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    • Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre URL

      "Te Pae is the Crown’s single biggest contribution to the regeneration of central Christchurch. The $450m facility has the capacity to host 2000 people or simultaneous smaller events. It features a 1400-seat auditorium, an expansive 2800m2 exhibition hall and 24 meeting rooms. Te Pae, which hosted its first events in April 2022 is owned and was delivered by Crown Infrastructure Delivery, when the company was formerly known as Ōtākaro."

    • Grand Designs - YouTube URL

      Official Grand Designs YouTube Channel. BAFTA winning Grand Designs is widely recognised as the pre-eminent series on modern architecture and design in Britain. It was originally conceived as a documentary series presented by designer and writer Kevin McCloud that takes us into the heart of life’s great unfolding human stories, where ordinary families risk all to experiment with architecture, technology, and their own lifestyle.

    • Tiny New Zealand airport that tells Māori love story in running for global design award URL

      The Guardian - 20 Aug 2021

      "The redevelopment of New Zealand’s New Plymouth regional airport is a finalist in the Prix Versailles Airports 2021 awards."

      Photograph: Patrick Reynolds

    • The pou of Māori architect John Scott

      The Spinoff - 29 Apr 2021

      "John Scott broke barriers for Māori architecture – and paved the way for future generations of Māori architects like Jade Kake."

      John Scott’s Futuna Chapel in Wellington (Photo: The Single Object)

      The Single Object: The pou of Māori architect John Scott

      The Spinoff - 27 Apr 2021

      "The pou is the central column within a wharenui or meeting house, seen as the heart of the building around which everything unfolds. John Scott’s use of pou in his modernist designs helped bring two architectural worlds together."

      The pou in Futuna Chapel (Photo: The Single Object)

    • A courageous conversation with TOA’s Nick Dalton URL

      ArchiPro - 11 Nov 2021

      "Nick Dalton named his practice TOA after the Māori word for brave. We talk to him about the courageous moves he’s made during his career and the ones he plans to make next."

    • Architecture's new 'kid': Hastings-born Whare Timu was destined to make a mark URL

      Stuff - 3 May 2021

      "Whare Timu, new associate principal and leader of Warren and Mahoney's cultural design unit Te Matakīrea, is forging an architecture career that seemed destined from childhood."

      Warren and Mahoney's design for the new Dunedin Hospital was developed alongside local iwi Ngāi Tahu. SUPPLIED / Stuff

    • Toa Architects confident they can help housing crisis

      Te Karere TVNZ - 1 Feb 2018

      "The government is set to talk housing this Waitangi weekend, but a Māori architecture firm says they have a prototype that will blow any housing programme out of the water. They say their homes are affordable, have shorter build times, will create jobs, and will use NZ made materials. Hania Douglas reports."  

    • Māori and Pasifika architects pioneering a 'new norm' URL

      Stuff - 16 Jan 2021

      "Maungārongo in Tauranga, designed by TOA Architects and built by Totara Construction, won an NZIA Waikato/Bay of Plenty Housing Award and a national Master Builders award in 2020 for each firm, respectively."

      JERUSHA RAZEY / Stuff

    • Māori contemporary architecture influences URL

      ArchiPro - 14 May 2019

      "In Aotearoa, iwi groups are having a greater role in how the direction of contemporary architecture is being expressed. Here, Hugh Tennent, of Wellington practice Tennent Brown Architects, talks about designing educational projects for iwi around the North Island."

    • Leading by example - bringing Te Ao Māori to the forefront of landscape architecture URL

      Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington - 25 June 2021

      "While his upbringing in Te Matau a Maui (Hawkes Bay) ignited a passion for design and architecture, it was the chance to reconnect, strengthen and celebrate his connection to whenua that pushed William Hatton to pursue landscape architecture."

      William Hatton, Landscape Architect presenting at industry event

    • Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects URL

      Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects – committed to promoting and celebrating outstanding architecture that enhances our cities, towns and natural environments.

    • The Drawing Board - Rise of Māori Architecture

      "A new wave of modern Māori Architecture is sweeping across Aotearoa with some of the freshest up and coming talent at the helm."

    • ArchitectureNow URL

      ArchitectureNow’s articles drawn from Architecture New Zealand, Urbis, Houses, Interior, Landscape Architecture New Zealand and Progressive Building, alongside original reviews, think-pieces, news items and events. 

    • ‘This is our beautiful castle’: the stunning new buildings expressing Māori pride URL

      The Guardian - 25 Mar 2024

      "From facial tattoos to TV stations, young Māori are enthusiastically embracing tribal cultural identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Now a new wave of Indigenous architects are making their mark"

      Te Taumata o Kupe, global indigenous learning centre by Toa Architects. For piece on Māori architecture, New Zealand

    • Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Design Awards URL

      Brought to you by The Designers Institute of New Zealand, The Best Design Awards is an annual showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product, digital and motion design along with three special awards - Value of Design, Public Good, and Toitanga.