Architecture

Design shapes our world, our environments, and our everyday. Where is design going, what's interesting and exciting about it, what's working, what's not? For The Weekend's design panel Lynn Freeman is… Audio, Gallery

Are 3D printers and other new technology a threat to traditional Maori crafts - or the way of the future that allows more people to be creative? Architecture student James Durcan is working with iwi… Audio, Gallery

Jeremy Rose is in Kaikohe with young budding Māori designers. Video, Audio

It's bright pink, it's up for the World Architecture Awards, and the 'magenta adventure' has now opened. The official opening of the first phase of the Nelson Street Cycleway, took place at about nine… Audio

Landscape architect, author, and cultural theorist, Charles Jencks knows a thing or two about alchemy. Most recently he has taken a scarred landscape in rural Scotland and transformed it into… Video, Audio, Gallery

A West Coast man has designed a tribute, to the 29 men who died at the Pike River mine in 2010. CPIT architecture student, Cory Devine, has designed a museum, and if accepted it will be part of a… Audio

Philip Smith is the owner of landscape design company O2 Landscapes Ltd, and David Straight is a Christchurch-born photographer. They have created the new book, Vernacular: the Everyday Landscape of… Audio

Rome wasn't built in a day - in fact, new research shows that Roman architects spent up to a year monitoring the sunlight and where it falls on certain important dates in the Roman calendar before… Audio

Jennifer is the former and founding Director of the Auckland Art Fair. She is currently working with the Institute of Architects on taking New Zealand's exhibition, Future Islands, to the Venice… Audio

Living in smaller spaces without compromising design or comfort.Smart, space-efficient houses are becoming the way of the future. Catherine Foster's book Small House Living showcases a collection of… Audio, Gallery

Now the Christchurch Town Hall rebuild is officially happening, a rare opportunity has come up to see the original plans from 1968.The Warren & Mahoney drawings are kept in the MacMillan Brown… Audio

Architect Malcolm Walker chooses his favourite New Zealand building. Audio

Andrew Wilcox started a competition in 2007 to find the best and quirkiest sheds after years of running a website devoted to the subject. This year there were over 2400 entries with the winner being… Audio, Gallery

The new Len Lye Centre at New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster Art Gallery will be the first ever New Zealand museum dedicated to the work of a single artist. Architect Andrew Patterson tells Eva how they… Audio

On time, on budget, and unlike any other building in the country, New Plymouth's dedicated Len Lye Centre opens next weekend. Locals have been able to see the 32-tonne stainless steel facade for a… Audio

In this week's episode: Eva speaks to British architecture writer Owen Hatherley, before catching up with the star Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko ahead of his New Zealand Symphony Orchestra… Audio

British author and guest speaker at Auckland's Cities in a Climate of Change conference - presenting this evening at City Gallery Wellington. Audio

Dr Rangihiroa Panoho has 22 years professional experience as a leading New Zealand curator and art historian and his specialist areas are Maori, Pacific, New Zealand and international indigenous art… Audio, Gallery

Henriette Vamberg, of Denmark's Gehl Architects, reflects on the progress made by Auckland in transforming itself into a liveable city. Audio