Tuhoe will learn in the new year whether its revolutionary headquarers building-Te Kura Whare-has met the international Living Building Challenge. Over the past 12 months the Tuhoe staff has been collating data to show the building, in Taneatua, has met the challenge's stringent conditions....
Jasmax Māori Cultural Advisory
There probably aren’t very many architectural practices in New Zealand that are trying to create an everyday working environment where Māori language and culture is celebrated – from Hangi Fridays to incorporating tikanga, from pōwhiri for special guests to staff singalongs of waiata. At Jasmax, four young Māori architects, Brendan Himona, Haley Hooper, Elisapeta Heta and Rameka Alexander-Tu’inukuafe have set up...
Ever the Land Screenings Nationwide
The film telling the story about the new Tūhoe building 'Ever the Land' is travelling the regions and will be screening at a venue near to you. Check out the list of screening dates, venues and times here evertheland.com/upcoming-screenings to pencil into your diary. A good excuse for you, your mates or whānau to hit the movies and support a local film making BIG noises...
Whakatane sign business, Law Creative Group, has won five awards in the New Zealand Sign and Display Association's 50th anniversary...
Building a case for eco-friendly pine
Eco Timber company Abodo Wood owes much of its recent growth to a customer complaint it received in its second year of operation. The company had been exporting treated pinus radiata to the Pacific when founder Daniel Gudsell received a call in 2004 from a customer in American Samoa. Children who had been playing on Abodo plywood were admitted to hospital with chronic nose bleeds, believed to be caused by exposure to the wood's...
Tuhoe headquarters win greenest building award
Te Uru Taumatua - the new Tuhoe headquarters building - was declared New Zealands greenst new building at last weekends 2014 property industry awards. The $15 million builidng, the first in New Zealand designed and built to meet tough international Living Building Challenge criteria, was also the crowd favourite, according to the iwi's whaira infrastructure and resources general manager Te Hau...
