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The Best Design Awards 2010: Gold Pins

October 1st, 2010
Never bring a knife to a pin fight. Notes, win­ners and images of Gold Pin win­ning pro­jects at the Best Design Awards 2010. The res­ults are in, some design­ers are a bit cut up, but the blood on the floor has been mopped up. At the end of tonight's frivolit­ies, I half-expected to see some inebri­ated design­ers duel­ing with [...]
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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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Iron­bank wins Archi­tec­ture Medal

May 17th, 2010
Iron­bank, the new steel-clad com­mer­cial build­ing on Auckland’s K’ Road, has received the 2010 New Zea­l­and Insti­tute of Archi­tects’ award for the year’s best build­ing. The mixed-use build­ing, designed by RTA Stu­dio for Sam­son Cor­por­a­tion, beat out some strong com­pet­i­tion, in par­tic­u­lar from Jasmax’s NZI Build­ing on Fan­shawe Steet, Auck­land. Four­teen other pro­jects were also [...]
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News: Spa­tial Golds win­ners at BeST Awards

October 16th, 2009
Recip­i­ents of Gold Awards in the vari­ous spa­tial design cat­egor­ies (List and gal­lery after the jump).
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