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Metrotile Shingle Reroof Whangarei house

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 5:00pm

 

When a winter storm with 150km/h winds hit a Whangarei home, sections of its asphalt shingle roof were blown off.
With only the plywood substrate left to protect the two-storey home, water began making its way through the joins in the plywood and into the home, damaging wall...

Designing smart with profiled metal roofing.

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 5:21pm

 

It is easy when designing a building to leave the roof cladding until last; however, consideration should be made at the outset of design of the Kℓ pressure coefficient factors, which apply to roof cladding and the purlins at the periphery of all buildings.
Some engineers are now...

Pumphouse Theatre Restoration

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 4:42pm

In a history that spans almost 110 years, the building that we now know as the PumpHouse Theatre has had its ups and downs.
Sitting on the shore of Takapuna’s Lake Pupuke, it began life in 1906 as a water pumping station, a more sophisticated version of the original pumping station that was...

Simply spectacular

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 4:51pm

 

When Mary and John Washer were designing their home on the Taranaki coastline, they wanted to do justice to the site and the sea views.

They also wanted something befitting the work they had put into their development of Tapuae Country Estate, where their home is on one of 30...

East Coast Bays Leisure Centre

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 3:16pm

 

When you have an asbestos roof over a community gym and kindy with a playground outside, it’s best not to take risks with it.

That was the view of Auckland Council when it became apparent that lichen could be degrading the asbestos roof on the East Coast Bays Leisure Centre in...

One of a team

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 3:46pm


Jonathan Walker architect – ‘Purpose-built yet elegant’ is how Jonathan Walker describes IBM’s Highbrook facility. Purpose-built and elegant’ better describes the many JWA-designed buildings in Auckland.

While the team at this well-established architectural practice have undertaken...

Tate Modern in New Zealand

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 2:02pm

Tate Modern
in New Zealand

At the turn of the century, a young Aucklander named Chris Tate was developing a passion for art, buildings and spaces, and for using unconventional materials to create unexpected relationships that surprised – and, sometimes, shocked. His penchant, then...

Matakana Botanicals

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 2:26pm

 

As a premium bath and body products company, Matakana Botanicals is proud of its green credentials but even owner Danvers Devereux concedes there was “one missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle”.
“We occasionally have overseas distributors visit New Zealand and we drive them up to...

The Hub Hornby Mall

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 2:18pm

Development is going full steam ahead in post-earthquake Christchurch and no more so than in Hornby, where shopping mall The Hub Hornby is undergoing a major expansion.


The mall, which serves Christchurch’s western suburbs, is being subjected to a $65 million redevelopment by...

Robyn’s vision

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 2:32pm

Wanting a home that would see her into her golden years, Robyn stipulated level entries for her new two-storey home, which also has a lift.
 
“With level entries everywhere, hopefully I can stay here as I get old and not have to shift,” she says.
Apart from mobility issues, easy...

The Hub Hornby Mall

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 2:19pm

Development is going full steam ahead in post-earthquake Christchurch and no more so than in Hornby, where shopping mall The Hub Hornby is undergoing a major expansion.


The mall, which serves Christchurch’s western suburbs, is being subjected to a $65 million redevelopment by...

Matakana Botanicals

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 2:25pm

 

As a premium bath and body products company, Matakana Botanicals is proud of its green credentials but even owner Danvers Devereux concedes there was “one missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle”.
“We occasionally have overseas distributors visit New Zealand and we drive them up to...

Chrysalis Childcare Centre

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 1:12pm

Two large trees on a commercial site had proved a problem for development but architect Phil Smith decided to make them part of the solution.
Phil, of Collingridge and Smith Architects (UK) Ltd, says the mature protected trees – a pohutukawa and an oak – stand side by side on the site and...

The Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 1:26pm

 

In Scope 39 we discussed the upcoming issue of the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan (PAUP) 2013 containing provisions not allowing the use of unpainted metal roof (or wall) cladding. This includes ZINCALUME ® which has a surface 80% of aluminium, and ignored the large number of galvanised...

Fowler Homes water front gold

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 1:55pm

 

Building a waterfront home requires robust but sympathetic materials.
The owners of this home in Mapua, west of Nelson, fulfilled the first requirement by choosing ColorSteel® roofing and cladding, and the second one by opting for the material in New Denim Blue to mirror the colour...

In the beginning . . . there was earth, rain and sun

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 12:59pm

“Earthship Te Timatanga’s first power bill: in credit!”

So declares Sarah Rowe, partner of Gus Anning, in a November 2015 entry on Facebook, marking yet another step toward the couple’s bid to be self-sustaining in their ‘Earthship’.

The concept was created and developed in the...

Ellen Comes to Town.

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 11:25am

Ellen’s New Home was built in a newly developed, elevated subdivision with outstanding views to the end of the Coromandel Ranges. This view clinched the choice of the section as Ellen had previously lived on their 5th generation dairy farm on the northern outskirts of Paeroa for 58 years. Ellen...

Sustainability and Colour

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 11:47am

 

Has architecture become part of the Fashion Industry and been cursed by mock sustainability (green-wash) and the absence of colour?
A question perhaps we should all ask ourselves and to one very passionate architect, Daryl Cockburn, the answer is definitely yes!

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Meet the locals

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 9:36am

Meet the Locals He Tuku Aroha precinct, Wellington Zoo
As part of its redevelopment and rejuvenation, Wellington Zoo has created a precinct that it describes as “a love story to New Zealand”.
Meet the Locals He Tuku Aroha occupies 7000sq m – more than a fifth of the zoo’s footprint –...

Pushing the boundaries

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 9:58am

Faced with a steep, tight site in central Auckland, designer Hamish Stirrat knew he would have to literally push the boundaries to achieve his design brief for a four-bedroom family home.

As Hamish, of Fabricate Architecture, says, “It was clear from the outset that the project was going...

Green Building

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 2:04pm

NZ Green Building Council updates the Steel Credit in Green Star NZ to something achievable.

If you build upmarket offices, commercial buildings or schools this should mean something to you. If it does read on to discover how we have finally made the steel credit applicable to NZ made...

Hamilton Heliport

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 2:16pm

 

When HeliCorp owner Brent Glover decided he wanted to take his business to the next level, new premises had to be part of the equation.

For about 15 years, HeliCorp had been providing a wide range of helicopter flight services including scenic charter flights, corporate aviation...

Proposed NZMRM Systems Guarantee update

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 2:34pm

Strategic Background

Recent and signalled changes in Law, around Builder liability, Council liability and Risk based consenting, have created a legal environment that is conducive to the development of an extended range of builder guarantees.

On the back of its...

Cascade House

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 1:44pm

This new 309 square meter cascading house is perched on a cliff, on the southern border of the of Seagrove Conservation Estate, in the Wellington suburb of Newlands. The site offers amazing, panoramic views of Wellington harbour and is less than couple of hundred meters from the shoreline....

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