We are excitied to be hosting the talented Kunlé Adeyemi, who will be visiting New Zealand next week, to talk about some of his key projects. This includes the well known project shown above, the Makoko Floating School. Click link below to read more about this project.
Several other innovative International architects will also be speaking at the New Zealand Achitecture Conference including one our favourites, work shown below, Sou Fujimoto.
http://www.insitu.nzia.co.nz/speakers/sou-fujimoto/
Image source: www.uomo-moderno.com
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Len Lye Centre - Photo by Glenn Jeffrey
Glenn Jeffrey captures the shadow of the iconic White Hart Hotel upon the newly finished facade as the sun rises.
Jo Aitken worked closely with the fabricators, Emmetts, to resolve the fabrication and detailing of these panels through her role as Project Architect with Patterson Associates. (Photograph by Govett Brewster gallery Staff)
New Zealand food company Oravida opened China’s first flagship store in Shanghai on Nov 1, 2014. Rt Hon Dame Jenny Shipley, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, opened the building, which sells New Zealand produce.
http://english.eastday.com/auto/eastday/business/u1ai20664_K3.html
Jo Aitken and Andrew Patterson worked closely together on the design of this project for Oravida.
Jo Aitken was privileged to join Peggy Deamer, Liz Seuseu and Bill McKay to judge the first ever awards of this type in New Zealand.
The first A+W NZ Awards were held last night as organised by the dedicated A+W Team - Megan Rule, Lynda Simmons, Sarah Treadwell, Julie Wilson and Elisapeta Heta. The Principal Sponsors for the Awards were Resene and The Warren Trust. The commemorative book for the awards, as shown above, was designed by Studio Catherine Griffiths.
Congratulations to the winners Julie Stout, Cecile Bonnifait and Justine Clark & Gill Matthewson (Parlour).
Auckland Architecture Week is coming up this month, 23 and 28th September, with lots of exciting events:
Photo by Glenn Jeffrey
The first lot of precast panels for the Len Lye Gallery are up. They look so beautiful, they are almost like a series of sculptures enveloping the new building. Refer to the Gallery’s facebook page for progress updates : www.facebook.com/govettbrewster
Jo Aitken worked closely with the fabricators, Emmetts, to resolve the fabrication and detailing of these panels through her role as Project Architect with Patterson Associates.
(Image Source: Current edition of Interior magazine)
Please see this month’s edition on ‘Interior’ magazine to read about the impressive winners and a write up on the judging process, which was incredibly enjoyable with a great team of judges.
Jo Aitken joins Aaron Paterson, Rachel Carley, Chris Stevens and Federico Monsalve as a judge for this year’s Interior Awards. The Winners will be announced at the Awards tonight.
Joanna and Andrew went to Wanganui to inspect the steel moulds for the 15m long and 4m wide precast concrete panels. The panels, once poured, will only be about 12.5 - 15cm thick and so transporting and installing these fragile forms without damage will be a challenging task.
Article source: Taranaki News
Jo Aitken worked closely with the precasters, Emmetts, through her role as Project Architect with Patterson Associates Limited.
Photo by Jo Aitken
Designing for 'contemporary' art is no easy task! How can we possible design for the myriad of ideas that artists of the future will come up with? So we decided it to be strong enough to hold one car per suspension point. (These are spaced approximately 2m apart!) That is a lot of cars to be hanging in one space!
As Project Architect for the new gallery, with Pattersons Associates, Jo worked closely with the Structural engineers, Holmes Consulting, on this project from briefing stage to construction stage.
The New Zealand Pavilion in Frankfurt won the New Zealand Architecture Award in the International Category. (New category for 2014.) Watch video below.
Image: Jo Aitken, Project Architect, accepts the award on behalf of the Project team from Patterson Associates Limited and InsideOut Productions Limited.
The curved steel fabrication tooling is ready! Andrew and I reviewed the first facade prototypes for the new stainless steel facade panels.
Jo Aitken, Project Architect, is carrying out this project collaboratively with Patterson Associates Limited.
Andrew Patterson + Jo Aitken (Architects) and Kevin Chapman (Client)
A fun night at the 2013 Interior Awards where the Pavilion project won the Supreme Award, which included a suitcase full of cash to help us celebrate!
(Jo Aitken, worked closely with Andrew Patterson on the New Zealand Pavilion in Frankfurt, Germany. Click link to read article and see more images.)
http://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/pattersons-pavilion-wins-the-2013-supreme-award/
