Tag Archives: Warren and Mahoney

Diary Note

Design­ers Speak — The Big Sell March 23 Auckland A retail theme for the next in the Designer's Speak series: War­ren and Mahoney: Gareth Hus­ton Title: Bright knits, a big idea and the art of retail Space Stu­dio: Vee Smit Title: Lingerie for the masses – design­ing for cul­tural diversity in remote loc­a­tions Sound­bite: Design­ing lingerie stores for inter­na­tional rol­lout [...]
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Col­our Awards

The win­ners final­ists (sorry, my mis­take, you haven't won yet…) of the recent Dulux col­our awards have been announced, and it is our pleas­ure to bring you a few shots of New Zea­l­and pro­jects in this Aus­tralasian com­pet­i­tion, and, in par­tic­u­lar, those from the Com­mer­cial Exter­ior and Interior cat­egor­ies, and also the Sus­tain­able Interior category. Com­mer­cial [...]
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The Best Design Awards 2010: Gold Pins

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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Pavil­ions of the World

A gal­lery of Shang­hai Expo 2010 pavil­ion images by Dawnfinder's Tina Hart. Dawn­finder is a multi award-winning design team (con­sist­ing mostly of Kim Jar­rett and Tina Hart) spe­cial­ising in land­scapes, themed envir­on­ments and pro­duc­tion design. Those who have vis­ited New Zealand's pavil­ion in Shang­hai will already be famil­iar with the firm's handi­work – they designed an elab­or­ate micro­cosm of [...]
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Iron­bank wins Archi­tec­ture Medal

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

Recip­i­ents of Gold Awards in the vari­ous spa­tial design cat­egor­ies (List and gal­lery after the jump).
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