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In this issue June July 2011
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COVER STORY:A good night’s sleep at Novotel Auckland Airport New Zealand’s newest hotel, the Novotel Auckland Airport, has opened in time for the Rugby World Cup. Situated just 50 m from the international terminal, the $65 million project was developed by Tainui Group Holdings in partnership with Auckland Airport and Accor, who will operate the hotel. |
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Editorial:I’m beginning to think I’m related to Ken Moon. Forget lunar calendars and solar eclipses and other such nonsense. I can accurately predict that the next big earthquake in Christchurch will strike on or around 10 October. Read article » |
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SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION:IBM completes its ‘high resiliency’ data centre IBM designs, builds and manages more data storage centres than any other IT company – globally it has over 400 such facilities – and its brand-new facility in Auckland’s Highbrook Business Park incorporates the very latest innovations in design. |
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PROJECTSNew Ronald McDonald House a home away from home It’s not every day that you can take a tired old office block and turn it into a home away from home. But that is exactly what Ronald McDonald House (RMH) Auckland Trust has successfully achieved with their new family accommodation unit, Grafton Mews. |
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NEWS:Grace and daring celebrated at 2011 NZ Architecture Awards Residential design has
always been a strength of
New Zealand architecture,
so it is no surprise that eight
new dwellings – five new
houses, two baches and an
apartment – are among the
24 projects acknowledged in
the New Zealand Architecture
Awards, the country’s premier
architecture competition.
However, the convenor of the
2011 awards jury, Wellington
architect Hugh Tennent, says
it was also a good year for
larger-scale architecture. |
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OTHER STORIES - WEB EXCLUSIVE:Student hall’s modular construction saves time and money By far the largest high-rise building in New Zealand to be assembled in modular fashion is six months away from completion at the University of Auckland. The last of the 468 modular rooms, individually assembled 161 km away in the Waikato, were installed at University Hall in Whitaker Place mid-June. The new hall, boosting the university’s fully catered accommodation by more than 60%, will open to students in early 2012. |
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Volkswagen media drivers’ day Usually NZCN’s editor, Lynne Richardson, gets to do all the fun stuff we get invited to –. product launches, tunnel openings, moving huge buildings – but not this time. In April, the kind folk at Volkswagen invited me to go to their Media Drivers’ Day, held at Hampton Downs race track in the Waikato. They were planning to spend three days entertaining hundreds of clients and potential clients, but the media (only seven of us) had our own day all to ourselves. Being so few of us meant that we had heaps of driving time and one-on-one attention, which was just fantastic. |
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