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Southern retreat
Designed to blend in with their surroundings, the buildings that will make up New Zealand’s first off the grid health retreat sit on remote ridges in the hills near Glenorchy.Overlooking the...
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Seismic firsts
Construction of a $40 million medical facility in Christchurch marks a world first in low-damage seismic-resistant design. It is the first New Zealand application of PREcast Seismic Structural System...
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Aga Khan Award for Architecture winners
Established in 1977, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture aims to identify and reward architectural concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Islamic societies in the fields of...
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Wairarapa teen's aid mission
The Niue Project started out as a challenge from my dad – something he called an ‘educational adventure’ – which involved me taking my love of architecture and design and doing a project for a...
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Niue aid project begins in earnest
It’s the heat that hits me when I get off the plane in Niue.We – that’s myself, my dad, our Niuean New Zealand guide Rennie Aleke and a team of school friends from Rathkeale College – find it hard...
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Mission accomplished
The last week of the build has been a controlled rush – from cutting holes in the shipping container for the prefab doors and windows to be installed, to installing and painting the slats on the...
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What is design's role in the future of healthcare?
The inaugural Health Care / Health Design forum will be held at Melbourne Brain Centre in Melbourne, Australia, 18 March 2015. The one-day conference will explore the critical role of design in the...
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Working safer together
The new Health and Safety at Work Act aims to help make our workplaces safer and reduce the number of fatalities and injuries that have had serious impacts on people and the economy, making New Zealand...
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Vital signs
In the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes, the Canterbury District Health Board discovered that many of its facilities had sustained irreparable damage, necessitating a rebuilding project of...
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Clean bill of health
The meticulously planned construction of Kaikoura’s new integrated family health centre, Te Hā o Te Ora, has resulted in a seamless transition from the old Kaikoura Hospital to the new state-of-the-art...
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Health & Safety – not just a high-wire act
The fourth of April 2016 was a professed and profound juncture for everybody across New Zealand with the much-anticipated Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 becoming effective. Instigated as a result...
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Te Whare Toa Takitini/Burwood Hospital
In the 16th century, a Swiss-German philosopher, physician and botanist called Paracelsus suggested that sickness and health in the body relied on the harmony of man and nature. He is also credited as...
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Wellness in design: Shortland Health
No one likes waiting in the reception areas of medical centres, so why do we have them? And, on the subject of waiting rooms, why do they all look so sterile and impersonal? Architectural firm Klein...
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