Studio Pacific: The Rock, Wellington Airport

The Project – The Rock, Wellington Airport Winner, Transportation category, Inside World Festival of Interiors 2011 Finalist, Serve & Facilitate category, The Great Indoors Award 2011 Winner, Commercial Architecture Award, NZIA Wellington Architecture Awards 2011 Winner, Gold Award and Purple Pin, Spatial Design category, BEST Awards 2011 Winner, Interior Fitout Award, NZ Wood Timber Design

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Interview: Sir Miles Warren

Sir Miles Warren is one of NZ’s most respected architects. He talked to the Australian Design Review about the recent Christchurch quake and efforts at rebuilding. SS: I read an interview where you say you’ve been lying in bed dreaming of redesigning Christchurch in your head. How far have you got? MW: Well, it was inevitable that

Meridian First Light Update

After 20,000 visitors have traipsed through you and you’ve been prodded and poked I think most people would want to hide in a dark container and set off to America. Having successfully travelled across the pacific and skirted the atlantic and hopefully sheltered from Hurricane Irene! The house now awaits its team who are arriving

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New in the Gallery – Antillean Gothic

We’ve got a great-looking new project up in our gallery from one of our clients, John Allsopp at Amonle Studio Workshop. His design, entitled Antillean Gothic, was modeled 100% in ArchiCAD 14, and used the Cadimage Extrusions, Doors + Windows, Stairs, and Cabinets tools. Rendering was done in Cinema 4D. The project recently won the

Building Smart – MESH Conference

Recently Mark and I attended the Building Smart MESH Conference in Sydney: Sharing Information Building Innovation Building Smart is the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI): The key issue in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facility Management (AEC/FM) sector  is the lack of interoperability – the ability to share information, from the inception of a project,

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SANNZ ArchiCAD workshop

Last week Mark and were out at UNITEC teaching our Introduction to ArchiCAD course to a group of 3rd year Bachelor of Architecture Students. The event was orgained by the Student Architecture Network of New Zealand. We had a great turn out with a full computer lab of enthusiastic students and a couple of tutors.

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Meridian First Light house

Since my last blog item Meridian has signed up as the major sponsor of the now Meridian First Light house. This has come just in time as construction in the warehouse has finished and the test has started with the dry run assembly / construction starting this week. The Teams Facebook page is great to keep

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FirstLight Site Visit

At the start of last week I was in Wellington running an BIM Introduction Course this gave me the opportunity to have a look at the FirstLight construction site. Whilst Monday was a quiet day due to material delays the past couple of weeks have seen a hive of activity in the shed (Check out

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Computational Architecture

Would you mistake the above image for a computer rendering? What you’re seeing is a collection of absurdly intricate columns made out of cardboard by one Michael Hansmeyer. To be exact, each column is made out of around 2700 1 mm thick cardboard slices. The columns each have between 8 and 16 million polygonal faces.

FirstLight Construction starting

Under Campbell and Josh as they fly out of Wellington is an empty warehouse. Eagerly awaiting entry to the warehouse is the Victoria University First Light team who will be ably assisted Mainzeal in the construction of the FirstLight House. Use of the warehouse has been donated by Wild at Heart Currently many of the

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