Architecture

Who didn't want to live at the pool as a kid? One family in Whanganui is lucky enough to do just that - their home is the former site of the Gonville Pool in Whanganui.  Audio

Tim Ross is a professional architecture nerd and he's bringing his show to your town. Audio

The award winning architect Professor Anthony Hoete has written a chapter in a new book, Urban Aotearoa, The Future of Our Cities. Audio

Step inside an old post office in rural Taranaki and you'd think you were in a grand mansion in Europe. It's been converted into a small luxury hotel, but there's more than meets the eye behind its… Audio

Julian Wilcox drops in to the Auckland offices of award winning Maori architect Nicholas Dalton and the company he founded, TOA.  Audio

Dutch architect, Koen Olthuis has set his sights on the world's rapidly rising sea levels - not on battling these forces but harnessing them as the basis for a new architectural revolution -… Audio

A big new wooden superstructure is about to be built out the back of Parliament House, and is planned to be ready to fit dozens of MPs by the next election. Audio

Acclaimed American architect Jeanne Gang is well known for the expansion of New York's American Museum of Natural History, and Chicago's Aqua Tower - a mixed use 82 story mixed use building downtown.

Up and coming Maori designer, Jade Kake, has been making waves in both the architectural and literary worlds. She's the director and founder of Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism, a kaupapa Maori… Audio

In 2016 Aotearoa lost architect and teacher Rewi Thompson too young. But as an innovative new book reveals -  Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere - Thompson’s legacy lives on not only in buildings and public… Audio

Growing up in Germany, researcher Mirjam Schindler always had an interest in how green spaces shape the way people interact with each other and spaces around them. In this episode, she talks to… Audio

Bill McKay joins Kathryn to look at the gap between the desire to build back after a natural disaster and the political will to do it.

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You won't see it on Google Earth but The MIT Technology Review has obtained exclusive satellite pictures, in conjunction with Soar Earth, an Australian startup, showing work well underway on Saudi… Audio

Wood is making a comeback as the construction industry looks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from high carbon materials like concrete and steel. The government's Building for Climate Change… Audio, Gallery

Julie Stout describes how Auckland could connect in the future to the wairua and cultures that make up Tamaki Makaurau. One of the highlights of Auckland University's Raising the Bar 2022. Audio

Mario Cucinella is an architect whose work is at the nexus of sustainability and technology. Based in Milan, Italy, some of his notable projects include an eco-residential 3D-printed building using… Audio