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The awards have been running for more than 25 years. The awards celebrate the best in architectural design, including residential and commercial architecture, throughout New Zealand. [8] [9] ADNZ also produces an annual design publication, Defign, and a weekly blog with the same name. [10] [11]
The standard is maintained by Standards New Zealand. [1] [2] The first edition of NZS 3604 was published in November 1978, replacing provisions in the NZS 1900 Model building bylaw series. [3] Similar timber-framed building standards have existed in New Zealand since the aftermath of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. [1]
The title "Architect" can be used by others where building design is not involved, e.g. landscape architect, marine architect, software architect etc. An Architect registered in another jurisdiction can use the title in NZ, so long as its origin is made clear, e.g. Bill Smith, Registered Architect (UK). The identity of Architects in New Zealand ...
The Institute’s ‘named awards’ are conferred in categories of public, commercial, educational and residential architecture, and are named for the influential New Zealand architects Sir Ian Athfield, Sir Miles Warren, John Scott and Ted McCoy, each of whom has made a powerful contribution to the practice of architecture in New Zealand.
Before British colonisation of New Zealand, the Indigenous architecture of Māori was an 'elaborate tradition of timber architecture'. [1] Māori constructed rectangular buildings (whare) with a 'small door, an extension of the roof and walls to form a porch, and an interior with hearths along the centre and sleeping places along the walls' for protection against the cold.
A Nelson Two-Storey Block under construction at Mairehau High School in July 1960. Makora (now Makoura) College, a Nelson Two-Story school, in 1969.. The Nelson Two-Storey is a development on the Nelson Single-Storey design and is characterised by its two-storey H-shaped classroom blocks, with stairwells at each end and a large ground-floor toilet and cloak area on one side.
One of earliest bodies to promote an appreciation of design in New Zealand was the Wellington Architectural Centre, established in 1946. In April 1948 it launched the country's first design publication, the New Zealand Design Review, which it continued to publish until 1954. [2]
Pages in category "Architecture in New Zealand" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Design Review (journal) G. Grand Designs New Zealand; N.