Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 21/05/2018 - 12:27pm
Like a lot of Christchurch homeowners, Phil Grey and his family were left in limbo when the earthquakes hit the city in February 2011.
The family bungalow and section beside the Heathcote River was substantially damaged beyond a full repair and was deemed a rebuild.
Phil, an...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 21/05/2018 - 12:21pm
People who know the Auckland octogenarian and New Zealand Metal Roofing Manufacturers life member Tony Barbarich, Director – Business Development, MetalCraft Roofing, Auckland, tend to use the same descriptions when talking about him. He never loses his cool, talks sense and people listen to...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 21/05/2018 - 12:19pm
People who know the Auckland octogenarian and New Zealand Metal Roofing Manufacturers life member Tony Barbarich, Director – Business Development, MetalCraft Roofing, Auckland, tend to use the same descriptions when talking about him. He never loses his cool, talks sense and people listen to...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 21/05/2018 - 12:10pm
St Bartholomew’s Church dates from 1855 and is the oldest timber church in Canterbury. It was designed by the renowned architect of the day, Benjamin Woodfield Mountfort and followed an earlier timber and brick church, located in Lyttelton, in the South Island. This particular church had been...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 21/05/2018 - 12:01pm
The concept for this home was simple: a shed in the bush.
But the site – down from the road in a gully with a stream – posed some design challenges.
As architectural designer Noel Jessop says, “With the fog and weather patterns we already have in Hamilton, building 15m below the...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 21/05/2018 - 11:52am
Plastics business Sistema is renowned for its bold and innovative approach and that attitude has continued through to its new state-of-the-art facilities near Auckland International Airport.
On a 9.6ha site, the 52,000sq m building is one of the largest and most advanced manufacturing...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 18/05/2018 - 2:17pm
PROJECTS
Page 2: Sistema: Designed by Woodhams Meikle Zhan Architects and built by Haydn & Rollett, the building is definitely big but it is also beautiful according to the judges
Page 8: Noel Jessop designs a simple built unique home...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 18/05/2018 - 11:46am
When Dalman Architects designed the Chapel Street Centre, the brief from the Christchurch North Methodist Parish was to express elements of who they were and their Christian mission to the community.
The original church was demolished due to damage sustained in the 2010 and 2011...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 18/05/2018 - 11:40am
Corrosion is an electrochemical process.
By Rod Newbold, chairman MRM Technical Committee. Article courtesy of Roof Link
In the case of steel, differences in electrical potential exist on the surface, and microscopic cathodic (-) and anodic (+) cells are formed. The...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 18/05/2018 - 11:30am
Life on the farm got a whole lot more comfortable for Fiona and Humphrey O’Leary when they decided to build a new home.
Fiona says, “At the old house, which is a 100-year-old villa down the farm, about a kilometer way from our new house, some mornings it would stay chilly indoors till...
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