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New issue of Progressive Building + Info-Link magazine out soon

No comments By Mark Longley on December 16, 2010

THE FINAL issue of Progressive Building + Info-Link magazine for the year is out soon and it's a packed issue to take you over the Christmas break. Here is a sneak preview:

There is the latest news from the industry.

Warwick Quinn, CEO of the RMBF, Martin Fahey CEO of the NZIOB, Richard Carver from Jennian Homes and Derek Baxter from CBANZ all share their thoughts about the year ahead.

There is a short feature looking at cover pricing and the Commerce Commission's attempts to educate the industry about the dangers of manipulating tenders.

The projects featured this issue are: The new indoor sports arena being built in a particularly windy part of Wellington. The Victoria Park Tunnel. MOTAT's LVL timber exhibition hall and the renovation of a block of flats in Wellington where most of the old product is recycled.

There is also an interview with the NZIOB Young Achiever of the Year Shannon Chambers plus the latest products in the Info-Link section.

The best un-built work of 2010

No comments By Peta Nichols on November 24, 2010

A Path To Dwell On, designed by Nick Sayes and Mike Hartley. Winner of the AAA Cavalier Bremworth Awards 2010.

A lot of architects and designers put a lot of effort into projects that for some reason or another, many times through no fault of their own, never get built. Every year, the Auckland Architecture Association Cavalier Bremworth Design Awards recognises these un-built works, and the 2010 winners were announced last Thursday night at AUT's St Paul Street Gallery.

Mike Hartley and Nick Sayes from Daniel Marshall Architects won the Open Section of the awards with their entry called The Path to Dwell on.

Other projects awarded were: Sir Keith Park Aviation Museum at MOTAT designed by Yumian Chai (winner, student section); Being in Painful Circumstances designed by Yosop Ryoo (highly commended, student); Red Line designed by Huirui Wang and Ruoyu Wang (highly commended, student); My Bro's House designed by Simon Twose (commended, open section); and Live and Work infill designed by Matt Deep (commended, student section).

: At the awards presentation at St Paul Street Gallery. From left: Paul Clarke, Nick Murcutt, Rachel Neeson, Fleur Palmer.

: A Path To Dwell On, designed by Nick Sayes and Mike Hartley. Winner of the AAA Cavalier Bremworth Awards 2010.

: The Path To Dwell On by Nick Sayes and Mike Hartley.

: The Path To Dwell On by Nick Sayes and Mike Hartley.

: The Path To Dwell On by Nick Sayes and Mike Hartley.

: Sir Keith Park Aviation Museum at MOTAT by Yumian (Dino) Chai.

: Sir Keith Park Aviation Museum at MOTAT by Yumian (Dino) Chai.

: Sir Keith Park Aviation Museum at MOTAT by Yumian (Dino) Chai.

: Being in Painful Circumstances by Yosop Ryoo.

: Red Line by Huirui Wang and Ruoyu Wang.

: Being in Painful Circumstances by Yosop Ryoo.

: My Bro’s House by Simon Twose.

Every year the AAA manages to lure some great Australia architects across the ditch to help judge the awards, and this year the international judges were Nick Murcutt and Rachel Nesson of Neeson Murcutt Architects. They are a small practice based in Sydney who do some really interesting work. John Walsh will be featuring an interview with both Rachel and Nick in the January issue of Architecture NZ.

Rachel and Nick were supported by New Zealand judges Richard Naish of RTA Studio and Jon Craig, one of the founders of Craig Craig Moller Architects, now CCM Architects in Wellington.

For more information about the awards programme visit here, and here.

Great Figure!

No comments By Peta Nichols on November 18, 2010

GREAT FIGURE! is an exhibition of models and pin-ups of three houses by Wellington architecture practice KebbellDaish. The exhibition is at Wellington's Bowen Galleries on 39 Ghuznee Street from Sunday 21 November to Tuesday 23 November.

KebbellDaish is an interesting, intellectual architectural practice, with a great story. The practice, founded in 2002 by John Daish (now retired) and Sam Kebbell (architect and academic) is set to close in 2032 – giving the practice a time limit to complete the things they want achieve.

Read more about the practice and see some of its work here >> www.kebbelldaish.co.nz

: Courtyard house by KebbellDaish Architecture. (Photograph: KebbellDaish)

: Model of Courtyard House by KebbellDaish Architecture. (Photograph: KebbellDaish)

: Harte house by KebbellDaish Architecture. (Photograph: Simon Wilson)

: Model of Harte house by KebbellDaish Architecture. (Photograph: KebbellDaish)

: Adsett House by KebbellDaish Architecture. (Photograph: Sonia Mangiapane)

: Model of Adsett house by KebbellDaish Architecture. (Photograph: KebbellDaish)

Sam has written some notes on his ideas formed through the process of curating of Great Figure!, which will be featured in the next issue of Houses magazine.

Launch of Blue September for prostate cancer awareness

No comments By Mark Longley on September 1, 2010

AGM PUBLISHING was invited along to the launch of Blue September by key sponsor PlaceMakers. The event was held on Tuesday night at the Sky City Grand Hotel. Veteran broadcaster Paul Holmes - a one time sufferer of prostate cancer - kept the crowd entertained as the MC.

Ex-New Zealand basketball player and Good Morning host Brendon Pongia, was appointed as a new ambassador for the charity and he gave a poignant speech about losing his father-in-law to the cancer.

The night kicked off Blue September, which is organised by the Prostate Cancer Foundation to raise awareness for this very serious cancer. Around 600 men die from prostate cancer each year in New Zealand and many of them could have been saved if they had been diagnosed earlier.

Blue September sees a number of events happening around New Zealand over September including a number of events in PlaceMakers stores on Blue Friday 3rd September.

Pictures from the NZIOB Awards for Excellence in the Building Professions

No comments By Mark Longley on August 24, 2010

Supreme Award winner Mike Prince enjoying his success with fellow Mainzeal co-workers.

IT WAS another excellent night at the awards, the new venue the Rendezvous Hotel worked out well and the evening was held together admirably by Oscar Kightley.

Pictures by Brendon O'Hagan

Young Achiever of the Year

No comments By Mark Longley on August 23, 2010

From left to right: NZIOB President Martin Fahey, Vicki Chambers, Shannon Chambers, Hon. Maurice Williamson, Mark Longley

SHANNON CHAMBERS, of Hyline Construction, was named as the Progressive Building + Info-Link Magazine, New Zealand Institute of Building Young Achiever of the Year at the annual NZIOB awards on Friday night. A humble Shannon accepted the award from Progressive Building editor Mark Longley and Building and Construction Minister Maurice Williamson.

Shannon's story is quite remarkable, having left school at 15 with no qualifications he started an apprenticeship with Hawkins Construction in 1994. He left Hawkins on the day he qualified, keen to see how other contractors worked. In 2000 he branched out on his own and began building houses on a labour-only basis. After six months though he realised that he did not have the skill or experience to manage clients. He began to improve his skills and in 2002 he set up a building business, followed in 2003 by an EWP hire business. Both businesses grew quickly, the hire business went from one EWP machine to 35 in just eight months.

His business life enjoyed some ups and downs over the next few years, but he kept at it and in 2008 he purchased Total Access Solutions. In 2009 he diversified the building side to carry out detailed finishing of interior fit outs, completing work on projects such as the NZI Building, Britomart and Auckland Airport.

In 2010 he re-branded his company to become Hyline construction, and with Total Access he now employs 75 people across a range of different projects.

Image supplied by Brendon O'Hagen

Mainzeal's Mike Prince wins the Supreme Award

No comments By Mark Longley on August 21, 2010

MIKE PRINCE, a project manager for Mainzeal Property and Construction picked up the Supreme Award at the New Zealand Institute of Building/GIB Awards for Excellence in the Building Professions last night (20-08-10). Mike was the project manager on the restoration of the High Court and the building of the Supreme Court, both in Wellington. Although they were technically two separate projects, Mike ran them as one, coping with the unique challenges the two projects threw up at the same time.

The awards are the only major construction awards to honour the person and not the building, and they recognise the recipient's excellence in contributing to a successful outcome for a project.

Other winners on the night were:

Hays Recruitment Projects under $5 million:

Winner Derek Bennett Mainzeal Property and Construction

Highly Commended Trevor Griffiths, Simon Crawford, Greg Hyde.

Colorsteel Projects $5 million - $25 million

Winner Lloyd Robinson Hawkins Construction

Highly Commended Tane Graham Fletcher Construction

Holcim Projects $25 million - $75 million

Winner Craig Brosnan Arrow International

Highly Commended Graeme Harvey. Dominion Constructors

Davis Langdon Projects over $75 million

Winner Mike Prince Mainzeal Property and Construction

Highly Commended Aaron Muir Fletcher Construction

Highly Commended Paul Feltham and Craig King Brookfield Multiplex

James Hardie Innovation Award

Winner Sean Gledhill Aurecon Group

Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Sustainability Award

Winner Euan Whitaker and Geoff Wicks Brookfield Multiplex

Progressive Building Young Achiever Award

Winner Shannon Chambers Hyline Construction

Progressive Building + Info-Link magazine out soon

No comments By Mark Longley on August 19, 2010

THE LATEST issue of Progressive Building magazine will be out at the end of August.

This packed issue features all of the finalists and winners from the New Zealand Institute of Building/GIB Awards for Excellence in the Building Professions. The country may have been in the depths of recession last year, but some amazing work was carried out by talented construction professionals on some outstanding projects. The awards recognise the people who made a significant contribution to the success of those projects.

The magazine also has an in depth article looking at the construction of a new cinema in Wellington as well as featuring the construction of the new Arts and Media Centre at the Nelson and Marlborough Institute of Technology. The centre is being built using a new laminated veneer timber frame.

Richard Aitken, the chairman of Beca and the newly formed Construction Industry Strategy Group is interviewed about his 40+ years in the industry and his new role.

The subject of this issue's In Profile is female carpentry student Kartika Mutzelburg, who also recently won the inaugural CBANZ and Itab Third Year Carpentry Apprentice Award. Kartika is forging a career path in what is seen as a male role and she is happy to let her tools do the talking.

The issue also has all of the latest industry news, a great competition and the latest products in Info-Link

Piping Hot

No comments By Michael Barrett on August 10, 2010

FROM THE ProDesign archives, here are some additional images of the Xsite Architects Resene Total Colour Award winning project for the Hynds Group. A full list of winners can be found here.

For the record, here are the judges' comments: "Natural materials such as clear finished and stained rough sawn ply enable the materials to be detailed with little fuss. They create a contrast to the glass reinforced concrete elements and resonate with the Hynds Group business philosophy of honest, straightforward, no-nonsense “what you see is what you get” service and solutions. The project demonstrates a very accomplished application of colour with the use of wood creating a nice mood. They used colour to telling effect."

Find out more about the Resene Total Colour Awards here.

World Class Architecture from New Zealand

3 comments By Peta Nichols on August 6, 2010

Supreme Court designed by Warren and Mahoney. Photograph by Paul McCredie.

CONGRATULATIONS TO the five New Zealand architecture practices who have designed buildings that have been shortlisted for the 2010 World Architecture Festival. The shortlisted buildings' architects will now present their buildings at the World Architecture Festival, held in Barcelona in November. There, the winners in each category will be determined, along with the judgment as to what is the world's best building of 2010.

: Supreme Court designed by Warren and Mahoney. Photograph by Paul McCredie.

: Supreme Court designed by Warren and Mahoney. Photograph by Paul McCredie.

: Supreme Court designed by Warren and Mahoney. Photograph by Paul McCredie.

: AUT Lecture Theatre designed by RTA Studio. Photograph by Simon Devitt.

: AUT Lecture Theatre designed by RTA Studio. Photograph by Simon Devitt.

: AUT Lecture Theatre designed by RTA Studio. Photograph by Simon Devitt.

: Te Kaitaka designed by Stevens Lawson Architects. Photograph by Mark Smith.

: Te Kaitaka designed by Stevens Lawson Architects. Photograph by Mark Smith.

: Te Kaitaka designed by Stevens Lawson Architects. Photograph by Mark Smith.

: Te Kaitaka designed by Stevens Lawson Architects. Photograph by Mark Smith.

: Northland Events Centre designed by Copeland Associates Architects

The New Zealand buildings that made the shortlist are:

The Supreme Court of New Zealand, Wellington, by Warren and Mahoney, in the Civic and Community category

Great Barrier Island House by Crosson Clarke Carnahan Architects, in the Houses category.

Te Kaitaka – Lake Wanaka Retreat by Stevens Lawson Architects, also in the Houses category.

AUT Lecture Theatres, Auckland, by RTA Studio, in the Learning category.

Northland Event Centre, Whangarei, by Copeland Associates Architects, in the Sport category.

Architecture NZ is a media partner of the World Architecture Festival.

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