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Hillary’s Hut

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Wed, 29/08/2018 - 5:20pm

Re-roofing Hillary’s hut at Scott Base
An iconic piece of New Zealand’s history – Sir Edmund Hillary’s hut at Scott Base – has been completely restored with roofing and cladding installed late last year by specialist standing seam roofer Mike Burgess, who talks to Jenny Bain. The hut is an...

Phil Green: H G Rose Architecture

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Wed, 29/08/2018 - 3:05pm

When a designer who thinks outside the “little boxes on the hillside”, collaborates with an established building industry leader to create a building reflecting the client’s ethos of quality and honesty, the result can be spectacular. 

The Certified Builders Association of New Zealand (...

Energy efficiency, sustainability and durability

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 21/05/2018 - 1:13pm

When architect Mitchell Coll designed two adjoining townhouses in central Christchurch, he also future-proofed them by making them removable and joinable. “Eventually the land will be worth more than the buildings so I would like to think that they will be moved off and used as baches rather...

Mark Gray: Jacks Point Home

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 21/05/2018 - 12:59pm

By no means would Jenny and Murray Butler describe themselves as “greenies” but they could both see the sense in building a sustainable, energy-efficient holiday home in Queenstown.

The couple, who live in Auckland, had bought a piece of land in the exclusive Jack’s Point subdivision and...

RECOVERING FROM THE EARTHQUAKE...AND THEN A FLOOD

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...

Saint Bartholomew’s Church: A Church on the move

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...

little oasis in the city

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...

Sistema

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...

Metrotile’s new Antica tile upholds school’s aesthetic heritage

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 18/05/2018 - 11:17am

A large re-roof project for Parnell District School is part of the government’s seismic strengthening project around old school buildings in New Zealand.

The first outing for Ross Roof Group’s Antica tile was a large re-roof project for Parnell District School in St Stephen’s Avenue. It...

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