S&T Communication in Design Award Winner - 2013
The 2013 S&T Award for Communication in Design is presented to Frances Cooper.
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From Resistance To Resilience Booklet
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Emerging Designer Finalist
Congratulations to .
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Interior Design
Merry Christmas!
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A Talented Team
We are constantly surprised by the unexpected talents that emerge from within our team.
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Rethinking Workspaces Booklet
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Interior Design
Publication
850 Years Notre Dame de Paris
Next year Paris will celebrate the 850th anniversary of its cathedral Notre Dame, beginning today with a scientific conference.
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S&T Scholarship Winner - 2012
Congratulations to Emily Batchelor - the winner of the 2012 Stephenson&Turner Prize at the Victoria University of Wellington.
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Scholarship
Amp the Ampersand Competition
Friday evening saw the prizegiving for our inaugural Amp the Ampersand Competition at S&T.
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Company News
Art
Disasters, Dollars, and Denial
On November 1 - a day after hurricane Sandy had hit the east cost of the United States - a graphic was published that visually summarised the financial impact of natural disasters in the United States since 1980.
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Sustainability
Research
HERZOG & DE MEURON RANIMENT LE DESIGN NAZI A TRAVERS LE STADE DE BORDEAUX
Parce que notre post sur H&dM’s project concernant le Stade de Bordeaux a suscité un énorme intérêt, nous ajoutons maintenant une traduction française pour partager cet article avec nos amis français.
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New Promotions!
Congratulations to .
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Company News
Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture
There is a definitive highlight for aficionados of powerful architecture inspired by ancient wisdom these days, the exhibition Louis Kahn: the Power of Architecture.
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Architecture
Art
BIM Summit New Zealand 2012
Following its success in Australia earlier this year, the BIM Summit moves to New Zealand! This preeminent conference presents a fantastic opportunity to examine the benefits and challenges related to BIM implementation, how BIM affects project delivery and costs, and its return-on-investment.
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BIM Technology
News
Sniffing out the Hot Topics
We at S&T have quite a nose for outstanding contributions to the realm of architecture and urban design.
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Awards
Architecture
Gerhard Richter Painting – The Film
There is an artist alive today whose paintings achieve auction prizes of US$ 200 million, which is more than works of Monet, Giacometti, and Rothko combined.
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Art
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S&T and the United Nations on Adaption and Resilience
Recently the United Nations held the .
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International Prisons and Corrections Community
Attending international conferences in the last 18 months on prison planning, design, management and security has highlighted just how advanced New Zealand and Stephenson&Turner is in this important sector.
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World Heritage – Who Cares?
In January we reported that the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) was about to punish Seville by blacklisting its world heritage sites because of a 180m high office tower by architect Cesar Pelli under construction that is considered to be affecting the listed buildings.
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Winner Workplace!
S&T’s .
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Quirky Glory Gaudi
Congratulations to your 160th birthday, Antoni Gaudi! Barcelona is my favourite city.
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Less But Better - Dieter Rams 80
Recently Dieter Rams celebrated his 80th birthday.
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Architecture
Design
Green Good Design Award for MPI Multipurpose Building!
MPI (formerly MAF) Multipurpose Building has won a 2012 Green GOOD DESIGN Award from among hundreds of submissions! Green GOOD DESIGN indentifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and to develop a public awareness program to the international general public about which companies are doing the best job in sustainable design for our world environments.
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Out of Order – Favelas as Urban Future
For me the architectural and urban development happening in Latin America is exciting stuff.
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A Workplace Vision
It is no secret that there is a proven link between working environment design and improvements in the productivity, health and learning capacity of building occupants.
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Beautiful Views
S&T has two private housing projects in construction, both due for completion at the end of the year.
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School design to inspire and empower our next generation
New Zealand is facing some significant changes in education needs in the 21st Century.
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A Breath of Fresh Air
S&T’s engineers have led the charge to provide innovative building services solutions at a recent refurbishment of the University of Auckland’s Physics Building (303).
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Engineering
Sustainability
Airport “Oasis”
Need a quiet spot before taking off on a long international flight from Auckland Airport? The recently-completed Emperor Lounge now offers a quiet retreat for all international passengers (not just business class!) – a place to escape from the hustle and bustle of the rest of the airport.
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Property Council Awards - Merit for S&T
Stephenson&Turner's Wellington Design Studio has been awarded Merit in the Green Property category of the 2012 New Zealand Property Council Awards.
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RTC Australasia Conference 2012
It has been my great pleasure and privilege to attend and speak at the eight international edition of the Revit Technology Conference (2012) held this year on the picturesque south NSW coastline at Wollongong, May 24 -26 2012.
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BIM Technology
Stratus BIM Cloud
We’ve entered a new age of enlightenment
The government’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority is trying to get Kiwis to switch from incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).
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Timber and Light - Nishizawa
This talk was part of the University of Auckland’s Communiqué 2012 series and travelling the country with the very appropriate support of NZ Wood.
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Opinion
Rising to the Challenge
Last Friday, among a group mainly comprised of local government and scientists, I attended the .
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I (Still) Feel Love
Last week Donna Summer passed away.
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Art
Shortlisted for the Interior Awards!
S&T's Wellington design studio has been shortlisted - (amongst some pretty tough competition, we should add!) - for the Interior Awards.
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NZ National BIM Survey 2012 Released
Drawing upon feedback from over 500 respondents, Masterspec has recently released their National BIM (Building Information Modeling) Survey Report for 2012.
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BIM Technology
Stratus BIM Cloud
Benefits of Deploying a Revit Private Cloud
Sign up now to reserve your spot at the Australasian Revit Technology Conference (RTC) in Wollongong, NSW Australia from Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 May, 2012.
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BIM Technology
Stratus BIM Cloud
S&T Lighting for World of Architecture News Awards
An S&T lighting project has made thelong list for the World Architecture News Lighting Awards.
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Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of a driving legend
Last Thursday (5 April) Ferdinand Alexander Porsche passed away at age 76.
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Design
Reflections on Christchurch
I never really understood what Post-Traumatic Shock Disorder was until I began to visit Christchurch a couple of months back.
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What Mies Means to Me
Google reminded me that today, March 27th, 2012, is the 126th birthday of Mies, or, as he named himself Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – congratulations! I guess the 1,280,000 results of Google ensure that almost everything has been said about him and his masterful architecture of ascetic Modernism.
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Merit award for Hasting’s Civic Square Competition
A design concept submission for the Civic Square Competition in Hastings has been identified as one of worthy of “merit” according to the evaluation panel.
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Sea Level Rise and Auckland - Threat or Catalyst?
One year ago a devastating tsunami hit the coast of Japan.
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Auckland
Urbanized
Urbanized is the latest film documentary of Gary Hustwit, who was the mind behind the films Helvetica and Objectified.
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Urban design
Opinion
Wang Shu Wins the Pritzker!
We at Stephenson&Turner would like to congratulate Wang Shu, founder of Amateur Architecture Studio and this year’s recipient of the world’s most prestigious architecture award, the Pritzker Prize.
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Calligraffitti at Saatchi & Saatchi
Last night Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman (NSM) opened his show at the Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery in Parnell.
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Creativity Unleashed!
A brief look at the recent architecture of Latin America shows an amazing burst of creativity.
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Architecture
Urban design
S&T in motion
Over the past six months we've been dabbling in some in-house video production.
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Video
Will Cesar Pelli Kill the World Heritage of Seville?
About 200 years ago Rossini’s comic opera “The Barber of Seville” entered the stage.
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Next Chinese Architecture
Just before the break I received the latest issue of the Spanish magazine Arquitectura&Viva (A&V), which exclusively dealt with Chinese architecture executed by Chinese architects.
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A Safer RWC
Thanks to S&T’s fire engineers and several event organisers it’s good to know that festivities surrounding the recent Rugby World Cup were not only fun, but safe.
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Fire Engineering
Sustainable Design - An Engineer’s Headache?
Design trends for modern buildings are setting high expectations for comfort, amenity, and sustainability.
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Engineering
Sustainability
S&T Lighting
New technologies are transforming the world of lighting – a world where the shape of light is limited only by the imagination and where a myriad of colours can transform a space and enhance performance and mood.
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Design for a Restless Landscape
In the.
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Facelift for a Wellington Heritage Building
In challenging economic times New Zealanders are, more than ever, acknowledging the economic and sustainability benefits of renovation versus building new.
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Two Lighting Awards for Wellington Design Studio
S&T's Wellington Design Studio won two awards at the IESANZ Lighting Design Awards on Friday night.
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Showcasing the New Urban Edge of Christchurch
On Friday I visited the University of Auckland's School of Architecture to critique the work of the architectural design class of Camia Young and Derek Kapiti.
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1972 – The Best of German Architecture
Sometimes I get asked what my favourite piece of German architecture is.
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S&T Wellington Studio wins Silver Best Award
It was a beautiful evening to celebrate the best of New Zealand design on the Auckland waterfront last Friday.
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See ya, Steve!
A few minutes ago I received an RSS feed announcing that Steve Jobs had passed away, aged only 56.
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Team New Zealand places in the solar decathlon
We were elated when we managed to move up one place in the overall rankings today from 4th into 3rd.
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AMAZING 3rd Place for First Light in Solar Decathalon
The Victoria University of Wellington First Light team has taken out 3rd place in the US Department of Energy's international Solar Decathalon Competition.
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Meridian First Light House
Paihia Design Workshop / Weekend
When we heard we were selected for the preparation of a new Master Plan for Paihia we sensed there could be an opportunity to build a team building workshop around the project.
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Urban design
What I want for Christmas…
What I Want for Christmas: A super grunty data projector which is able to paint the façade of a building.
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Façadism along the Forgotten World Highway
As it was my birthday last week, I took a week of leave to console myself.
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Heritage
VIP Visits and Kiwi lamb for dinner
The .
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What drives us?
We've just finished a few brief videos as a summary of what drives us at S&T.
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First LIght People’s Choice Award - Your VOTE counts!
The US Department of Energy's Solar decathalon includes a "People's Choice Award".
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Meridian First Light House
First Light - Construction Complete
Yesterday the First Light team were very proud to be the second of the 19 competitors to get their entry signed off by officials as being complete.
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Meridian First Light House
Christchurch Cathedral, spiritual need or historical delight?
Often witnesses to a large degree of devastation (be it natural or man-made) need to step back and create our own point of reference in order to make it “thinkable” at all.
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First Light Update
From our man on the ground - .
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Meridian First Light House
Being an Architect’s Engineer
I've been pondering what makes our engineers so special.
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As Architects and Interior Designers, we are always dealing with all sized businesses, considering the notion of the "open-plan office.
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Interior Design
US Solar Decathlon – almost 24 hours in
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Meridian First Light House
First Light about to take flight
The Victoria University of Wellington First Light team is now raring to go in Washington DC.
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Engineering
Meridian First Light House
Thank You, Auckland School of Architecture!
Over the last fortnight Stephenson&Turner took part in the ‘Open Desk Programme’ of the Auckland University’s School of Architecture.
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Auckland goes RWC Crazy…
It's been an exciting few days with the start of the Rugby World Cup and, in particular, the opening ceremonies in Auckland.
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Auckland
Close Encounter of the Cool Kind
Yesterday was the .
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Christchurch Temporary Cathedral
We are, by now, all familiar with the image of the torn and broken Christ Church Cathedral following the earthquakes of February 22nd and June 13th June this year.
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Would you care for a dance?
What better way to get intimate than with a dance – even with a building? Intimacy reflected in the transformative relationship between form and space… by revealing secrets of rhyme and articulation in a well-determined architectural space… with close ups of body and movement… exposing links between old and new, static and moving art, bodies and buildings.
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Multimedia
More NZ-Made Design, please
We buy NZ-made cheese.
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Is Auckland Learning from Us?
With the launch of the .
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Put Progress on the Shelves!
Coming back from lecturing at the School of Architecture one day, I stumbled into the bookshop on the campus.
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Architecture
Opinion
S&T wins Resene Sustainable Awards - Second Year in a row!
S&T has won the Resene Total Colour Sustainable System Award for the second year in a row! This year the winning project was S&T's new Wellington Design Studio fitout.
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To whom does the street belong?
Recently we touched on the.
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Urban design
Auckland
Inspiring Travels…
After a fantastic two months of jet setting around the world, I am back in full force to the winter ‘wonderland’ that is Wellington.
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Architecture
Snow! (and a First Light House update)
The week started with snow! The snow started as my family and I headed home, after 15 minutes so much had fallen that we couldn’t drive up the last hill.
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Wellington
Meridian First Light House
For Thirty Pieces of Silver… Auckland dresses up
Last week I was full of excitement about the new humane urban development at North Quay in the Wynyard Quarter; today I realise that Auckland unravels a new face (the true one?) as it dresses up for the Rugby World Cup.
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Hamburg in the 1920s – Modernism with a Local Edge
The beginning of Modernism in Germany was very much a personal thing of individuals, such as Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius in Berlin or Otto Haesler in Celle.
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Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
Finally Auckland wins the harbour back again! Happy pedestrians now stroll over Te Wero island, across the lifting bridge, and along North Wharf; untroubled by motorists enjoying the maritime environment.
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Urban design
Opinion
Lux Nova – The New Light
Recently I had the first opportunity to visit our finished Biosciences Centre (Thomas Building) extension at night – a wondrous experience.
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Herzog & de Meuron reinvigorate NAZI Design for the Bordeaux Grand Stadium
On Friday many of the architecture blogs featured a brand new project by the Swiss architects .
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Opinion
LED Technology for Energy Efficient Lighting
Last Friday I attended an ies Seminar titled “Energy Efficient Lighting Innovation, LED Technology Review”.
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Lighting
Norman Foster at the NZ Film Festival
This past Sunday morning I attended a screening of “How much does your building weigh, Mr.
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Opinion
Taking 3D Modelling to the cloud
Imagine being able to view and interact with a fully functional, computer-generated 3D model of your next building project – then presenting it on your iPad or laptop to your colleagues, board of directors, banker, potential tenants and others? Now you can, because Stephenson&Turner has developed a cloud-based technology to deliver ‘Autodesk® Revit®’ – an innovative approach to delivering the market-leading building information modelling (BIM) solution – to the end user.
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BIM Technology
Stratus BIM Cloud
DNA Lighting wins PSP Challenge Award
The atrium of the Biosciences Centre (Thomas Building) at the University of Auckland has won the.
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S&T Wellington Design Studio Opens with 6 Green Star Rating!
On Thursday, June 30, we had the grand opening of our new Wellington Office Design Studio.
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Reality TV
Mostly television these days is a carnival parade of the fattest families and 5-year old chefs.
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Upper Hutt College Gym a Success
Earlier in the week I went along to Upper Hutt College’s new entrant enrolment evening.
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