Architecture
Architect appalled by the city's apartment designs
A leading Auckland architect says a lot of Auckland's CBD apartment blocks are eyesores. Audio
Florence Jeanblanc Risler & Elizabeth Knox - French Connections
France's Ambassador to New Zealand, Florence Jeanblanc Risler and New Zealand Author, Elizabeth Knox join Wallace to talk about an cross-cultural architectural competition to design a French memorial… Audio
Jeremy Hansen and Lance Herbst
Architect Lance Herbst joins HOME magazine's Jeremy Hansen to talk about the award-winning house that's just won the House of the Year award. Audio, Gallery
Urban density – a panel discussion
Urban density marks a shift away from a traditional single-storey home on a section, towards multi-storey apartment and townhouse developments. Proponents say increasing urban density is important for… Audio
Masterpieces - Bill McKay
Time now for masterpieces of the week. Today we have Associate Head of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland, Bill McKay who has also penned a number of books on… Audio
David Mitchell
One of New Zealand's most gifted architects, David Mitchell, has been named as a 2016 Distinguished Alumni by the University of Auckland and will be honoured at a dinner held tonight. He talks about… Audio
Designing better places to die
Alison Killing is a British architect and urban designer, her studio Killing Architects is based in the Netherlands. She says architects must consider a range of social, political and economic issues… Audio
Sofie Willems and Joan Raun Nielsen: Spektrum Arkitekter
Two partners in Spektrum Arkitekter of Denmark are visiting New Zealand to give lectures and share their unique approach to architecture. Audio
Award winning architect, Tom Kundig
Tom Kundig is principal/owner of the Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig Architects - and is perhaps best known for his isolated cabins, some elevated on poles, others jutting out of hillsides with… Audio, Gallery
Shakespeare at Auckland's Pop-up Globe
Pop-up Globe is the world's first full-scale working replica of the second Globe theatre, and eight of Shakespeare's works will be performed in Auckland before it heads to another part of the world.
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Designing New Zealand
Design shapes our world, our environments, and our everyday. Where is design going, what's interesting and exciting about it, what's working, what's not? For The Weekend's design panel Lynn Freeman is… Audio, Gallery
Building our buildings - past meets future
Are 3D printers and other new technology a threat to traditional Maori crafts - or the way of the future that allows more people to be creative? Architecture student James Durcan is working with iwi… Audio, Gallery
Akau Studios - Kaikohe
Jeremy Rose is in Kaikohe with young budding Māori designers. Video, Audio
The 'Magenta Adventure' - Barbara Cuthbert
It's bright pink, it's up for the World Architecture Awards, and the 'magenta adventure' has now opened. The official opening of the first phase of the Nelson Street Cycleway, took place at about nine… Audio
Charles Jencks and his Cosmic Creations
Landscape architect, author, and cultural theorist, Charles Jencks knows a thing or two about alchemy. Most recently he has taken a scarred landscape in rural Scotland and transformed it into… Video, Audio, Gallery
Pike River Mine Museum - Cory Devine
A West Coast man has designed a tribute, to the 29 men who died at the Pike River mine in 2010. CPIT architecture student, Cory Devine, has designed a museum, and if accepted it will be part of a… Audio
Buildings 'amaze and entice' judges
Almost 30 buildings throughout New Zealand have won top honours at the country's Architecture Awards.
Playing Favourites with Philip Smith and David Straight
Philip Smith is the owner of landscape design company O2 Landscapes Ltd, and David Straight is a Christchurch-born photographer. They have created the new book, Vernacular: the Everyday Landscape of… Audio
Early Roman Architecture - Prof Robert Hannah
Rome wasn't built in a day - in fact, new research shows that Roman architects spent up to a year monitoring the sunlight and where it falls on certain important dates in the Roman calendar before… Audio
Arts commentator Jennifer Buckley
Jennifer is the former and founding Director of the Auckland Art Fair. She is currently working with the Institute of Architects on taking New Zealand's exhibition, Future Islands, to the Venice… Audio