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Hukanui Primary School Enviroclassroom wins LENZ Award

PAUA Architects is delighted that the Hukanui Primary School ‘Garden to Table’ Enviroclassroom has won a Learning Environments New Zealand (LENZ) Award. PAUA worked with the students of the school's enviro-elective and their teacher, Michelle White, to develop a brief and a design for the new building, called the ‘Living Room Kitchen’. The award citation reads "This project reveals the worth in pursuing solid student engagement throughout an entire design, research and build phase. The b...

The Meteor Theatre - A Play

The Scene: It is the early 2000s, Hamilton, New Zealand. There is a talent exodus from the city due to a lack of jobs. There is scant interest in the main remaining building of the former Innes Bottling factory still standing on the north-western corner of Victoria and Bridge Streets, an entrance to Hamilton’s CBD. Architecturally, the moderne era visage of the five decade old building by Hamilton architect, Aubrey de Lisle, deserves to be celebrated, much more than the dilapidated and faded...

Smart and Sustainable

Words by Sonia Fursdon and Mark Mawdsley.  Photos by Geoff Lentz and Murray Shaw....

Heritage Restoration

St Mary’s Convent Chapel in Hamilton East was constructed for the Catholic Diocese in 1926, and designed by locally-born architect John E Chitty. The Chapel is not only precious to the Diocese and the Catholic community, but is also a Category 2 Heritage NZ listed building, and a Category A heritage item in the Hamilton City District Plan. Despite official heritage status, until recently the Chapel was relatively unappreciated by the general Hamilton public, who are more familiar with the muc...

NZ Clean Energy Centre

The NZ Clean Energy Centre at Taupo commenced as an invited design competition, with a brief for a sustainable, iconic building as a research and innovation hub, showcasing the clean energy technologies available in the central plateau area, including geothermal, hydro-electric, wind, and bio-fuel-based power. The Clean Energy Centre was proposed as the first stage of technology park and tertiary education campus. The design incorporated an array of strategies and technologies, including photovo...