Voyager New Zealand National Maritime Museum in Auckland, New Zealand

Designed by Pete Bossley Architects, Voyager New Zealand National Maritime Museum is located in Auckland, New Zealand. The alteration expands the building outwards and upwards, in a series of planes which explode the traditional form of the sheds. To the east an extension pushes over the sea, housing a series of beautiful yachts portraying the [...]

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Irving Smith Jack Architects Ltd in Nelson, New Zealand

The Irving Smith Jack Architects Ltd designed by Irving Smith Jack Architects Ltd is located in Irving Smith Jack Architects Ltd.  The Nelson region includes a substantial resource of plantation timber and a timber laminating plant which produces engineered timber with enhanced structural properties. Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) is a sustainable resource that allows for [...]

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Arts Building – Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology in Nelson, New Zealand

The Arts Building – Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology designed by Irving Smith Jack Architects Ltd is located in Nelson, New Zealand. Set in a region of New Zealand renowned for being an arts incubator, this building is the built intersection of paired aspirations; the Nelson region’s physical and philosophical requirement for a leading edge [...]

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University of Auckland Science Centre in Auckland, New Zealand

University of Auckland Science Centre designed by Jasmax is located in Auckland, New Zealand. On a prominent gateway site to the Campus and busy city intersection, the new building was to serve two functions: to provide an identity for the Faculty and act as a gateway building for the wider University. Further, it needed to [...]

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Club Tower in Christchurch, New Zealand

Located in Christchurch, New Zealand, Club Tower  was designed by Weirwalker Architecture. Christchurch architects Weirwalker Architecture’s sustainable Club Tower design has been submitted by its commissioners, Latitude Group, to be the first South Island building to achieve five stars in the Green Star NZ building rating. The rating system was set up this time last [...]

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