designex exhibition
15 - 16 July 2025
BuildNZ | Facilities Integrate | The National Safety Show
Tuesday 15 July 2025, 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 16 July 2025, 10am - 5pm
Auckland Showgrounds
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Unitec students’ design explorations at BuildNZ
Unitec has partnered with XPO Events since 2016 to showcase student-led design explorations through the practice of making.Open Christchurch: Opening eyes, minds and hearts
Dorita Hannah visits Te Pūtahi’s annual Open Christchurch event and finds a blueprint for sharing Aotearoa’s unfolding architectural heritage.Future of Housing Summit: Industry Leader Roadmap
The Future of Housing Summit, in collaboration with Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZ Institute of Architects (NZIA), is set to take place at the nation’s largest build, design and architectural trade show, BuildNZ.Working with technology
Terry Cheng reviews DigiComm25 and is cautiously optimistic about the role of emerging technologies in enabling more-meaningful work.Experimenting with building (Under the Volcano)
A team of University of Auckland architecture students is constructing a series of architectonic sculptures to explore suburban built environments and home ownership attitudes.NZILA announces new President
Former CEO of Isthmus Group, Ralph Johns, has been announced as the new President/Chair of NZILA. He will serve a two-year term until June 2027.Strategic partnership between Architectus and ŌRUA aims to advance Māori design excellence
Architectus and Māori architectural practice ŌRUA have announced they are joining forces to further advance culturally responsive, place-based architecture that reflects the unique identity of Aotearoa.Studio Studio brings Danish design aesthetic to Arrowtown
Studio Studio designers transform an Arrowtown dwelling of ‘mixed origin’ into a sophisticated, contemporary bolthole that holds its own in the world of uber cool interiors.A tragic waste
Heritage architect Joanna Theodore considers the recent decision to demolish the Gordon Wilson Flats in Wellington.Unitec students light up Waiwharariki Anzac Square for Matariki
Students from Unitec’s School of Architecture are celebrating Matariki by showcasing their work at Waiwharariki Anzac Square in Takapuna.Future of Housing Summit: A pathway to affordable homes
Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZ Institute of Architects partners with BuildNZ to host The Future of Housing Summit.Otago becomes fifth accredited School of Architecture in Aotearoa
The New Zealand Registered Architects Board has approved the accreditation of Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Otago Polytechnic’s School of Architecture, Master of Architecture (Professional) programme.Rendered Futures: Drawing architecture exhibition at Objectspace opens 28 June
Charting 50 years of architectural drawing, this Objectspace exhibition captures the final years of architecture as an exclusively hand-drawn discipline to today’s digital culture.Urban Adaptations – Devonport Tomorrow exhibition coming up at Depot Artspace
Led by architects Julie Stout and Ken Davis, this exhibition features the work of 18 MArch students from the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning.Essay from Bangladesh
Architects Jeremy Smith and Murali Bhaskar go looking for water and hard-to-find buildings in one of the world’s most populous mega-cities, Dhaka.Newsletter
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