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Tele­com Place in Pictures

February 10th, 2011
Photo gal­lery: The bridges, fur­niture, col­our and style of Auckland's biggest cor­por­ate cathed­ral – Tele­com Place. Pho­tos by Simon Devitt. Find the full story in ProDesign 110. Architect’s notes: The interior design at Tele­com Place was a real col­lab­or­a­tion of archi­tec­ture and work­place design skills. Design dir­ector Andrew Barclay, from War­ren and Mahoney, says: “The design team involved [...]
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Best Design Awards 2010: Black and Purple Pins

October 1st, 2010
A post-match report from the Design­ers Insti­tute of New Zea­l­and Best Design Awards, with details and images of Black and Purple Pin-winning pro­jects. By Michael Bar­rett. The format for this year's awards shif­ted from last year. Gone were the Stringer Awards for over­all excel­lence in par­tic­u­lar design genres (graphic, spa­tial, product and, new this year, [...]
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Let there be Light

September 24th, 2010
Jose Guti­er­rez tames the light and har­nesses the shad­ows with this sur­pris­ing fit-out for The Research Agency. Words: Sam Eichblatt. Pho­tos: Emily Andrews. From ProDesign 108, with addi­tional draw­ings and images. Guti­er­rez is a final­ist in this year's Best Awards, in the Offices and Work­place Envir­on­ments cat­egory. Check out the other final­ists here. And remem­ber, it's [...]
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Resene Total Col­our Awards

July 30th, 2010
Paul Leuschke of Leuschke Kahn Archi­tects last night picked up the first ever 'Resene Total Col­our Mas­ter – Night­in­gale Award' for his design work for Grant Thornton Account­ants, Auck­land. ProDesign ran a story on this pro­ject (Account­ing 4 Taste) in issue 100, and now online, below. Words: Anthony Coates. Pho­tos: Kal­lan MacLeod. You can find a full list of award win­ners [...]
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Sus­tain­able at Heart

July 16th, 2010
With Jas­max dir­ector Tim Hoo­son par­ti­cip­at­ing in a spe­cial CoreNet Pecha Kucha next week, now seems like a good time to post this story from ProDesign 107, about the archi­tec­tural firm's move to a new Par­nell base. Words: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­tos: Simon Devitt. ‘Art is never fin­ished, only aban­doned’, goes the pithy (yet slightly cyn­ical) one liner. Would that [...]
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Retail Design Award Highlights

June 9th, 2010
He might not have won the Supreme Award at the Red Awards – that hon­our went to Christchurch's Redesign Interior Archi­tec­ture for the res­taur­ant Poppy Thai – but Mark Gascoigne was cer­tainly the big win­ner at the retail design awards, pick­ing up eight awards (out of 18 on offer).
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Tak­ing aim

May 27th, 2010
Hous­ing two advert­ising agen­cies in one build­ing, albeit under the same par­ent com­pany, can provide a few design chal­lenges. RTA Stu­dio recently under­took such a pro­ject with AIM Prox­im­ity. Pho­tos: Becky Nunes. Advert­ising agen­cies have had a num­ber of hey­days – the 50s, the 80s (up to ’87, of course), per­haps the late 90s and early 00s (up to ’09, per­haps). [...]
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Mod­ern Opera

May 14th, 2010
Opera Kit­chen, bring­ing together the best of the Hawkes Bay. Pho­tos: Brian Culy. Cover story from issue 106 with addi­tional images. Some wag once declared that music with din­ner is an insult both to the cook and the viol­in­ist. That’s ok, because at Opera Kit­chen the music is next door, in the big room – the refur­bished [...]
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Mak­ing More of Motif

March 26th, 2010
Xsite Archi­tects’ adven­tures in sym­bol­ism at the John Kinder Theo­lo­gical Lib­rary. From ProDesign 105 with addi­tional images and drawings. Words: Michael Bar­rett Images: Simon Devitt Fraught with dis­aster is the road of cul­tural motif woven with build­ing design. If you get it wrong, there’s a def­in­ite risk of com­ing across as pat­ron­ising and, at worst, insult­ing. [...]
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Clin­ical Trials

March 11th, 2010
Breed­ing an atmo­sphere of good health at a new woman’s health clinic. Pho­tos: Emma-Jane Heth­er­ing­ton. (From ProDesign 105 with addi­tional draw­ings and photos.) Med­ical clin­ics, well-worn places where the lino wraps up the walls and the tang of dis­in­fect­ant hangs heav­ily in the air. In the wait­ing room it’s hot, too hot, and the car­pet is as [...]
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