Tennent Brown Architects

We're pleased to announce Te Whare Hononga has won an Interiors Award for 2024!

Thank you to Rangi and Damon, Ngāti Te Whiti, Clelands Construction, Alister, and the rest of the team for all the mahi you put into this project.

Thank you to the judging panel, for hearing the story, for seeing the vision and for highlighting the importance of this kaupapa.

Read more about the award, and the project below:
https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/2024-interior-awards-civic-award-winner/
https://vimeo.com/950928835
https://tennentbrown.co.nz/projects/maori/te-whare-hononga

We're elated to receive a local award for Pā Reo.
What a great Kaupapa from Rawiri and the team at Te Wānanga o Raukawa. It has truly been a blessing doing the mahi alongside them.

We're elated to announce four winning projects at this year's Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZ Institute of Architects Local Branch Awards:

- Pā Reo Campus, Ōtaki

- 40 & 44 Bowen Street, Wellington

- Willis Lane, Wellington - Izzard Design in association

- Te Whare Hononga, New Plymouth

We're also proud of Maurice Pipson, for becoming a fellow of the institute, and Ewan Brown for receiving a President's Award.

We extend our congratulations to all the other winning projects across the motu this year, and our gratitude to those involved in the process, thank you!

NZIA - Wellington Branch
Andy Spain Photography

A great night at the NZ landscape awards in Parliament. Congrats to Oliver from Wraight and associates for winning a supreme award for the Pa Reo project in Otaki. Well done and well deserved (Nicole you should have been there)

Justine Harvey visits Stewart Island / Rakiura House

Take a read below:

Houses revisited: Stewart Island house A three-storeyed tower pokes out above the native treetops on the edge of New Zealand’s southernmost town of Oban. First published in 2016.

Secondly we're pleased to announce our shortlisting in the Western Architecture awards for Te Whare Hononga.

Read more about the project, and the other shortlisted here:

Western Architecture Awards 2024: Shortlist announced Thirteen projects have been shortlisted in the 2024 Western Architecture Awards. The shortlisted projects were selected from a jury led by architect Monica Puri.

We're pleased to announce the shortlisting of our projects across two regions for this year's NZIA Local Awards, firstly - Wellington

Willis Lane - Hospitality
40 & 44 Bowen Street - Commerical
Pā Reo Campus - Education

Wellington Architecture Awards 2024: Shortlist announced Thirty-six projects have been shortlisted in the 2024 NZIA Local Awards for Wellington. The shortlisted projects were selected from a jury led by architect Mary Daish.

Another successful lawn bowls night. All gone and half TB team still relaxing after the sport at the boneface bar with a couple of cricketers

This week Tennent Brown Architects we announce changes within our shareholder and leadership team. Brenda Solon (senior associate), Yiwen Seow (associate), Julie Cook (associate) and Clayton Viljoen join directors Hugh and Ewan as shareholders, alongside principal Kevin Lux. Clayton has also been promoted to associate.

Brenda, Yiwen, Julie and Clayton are all highly skilled architects and valued long-standing members of the Tennent Brown whānau. The whole team whakamihi their newly promoted colleagues.

https://tennentbrown.co.nz/news/35-share-holder-announcement

We're pleased to announce the digital copy discussing Tennent Brown's journey through the Living Building Challenge and the Living Pā at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington.

Take a look below:
https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/bringing-the-change-the-living-pa-te-herenga-waka/

Bringing the change Ewan Brown discusses the Living Pā at Victoria University of Wellington, the latest in a list of Tennent Brown projects implementing the Living Building Challenge.

INTERNATIONAL MENS DAY

Written by WHATARANGI WINIATA:
Whatarangi is Tauira Māori of Te Herenga Waka studying Masters of Architecture Professional, with a passion of Māori sustainability lead to an Architecture Internship at Tennent Brown Architects for the 2023-2024 Summer.

Tennent Brown Architects recently celebrated International Men's Day. The purpose of the day was to discuss improving mental and physical well-being within the construction industry. TBA united together to learn and discuss “Mates in Construction”, in particular. The results and research gathered by Mates in Construction showcases the impact of the workload in the construction industry can have on employees. The results show Māori men are significantly over-represented in the statistics. Mates of Construction offer opportunities and help for construction workers to cope and overcome these mental obstacles. The concept of Whare Tapawhā is utilised, encouraging men to thrive and improve their Taha Tinana (Physical Well-being), Taha Hinengaro (Mental Well-being), Taha Wairua (Spritual Well-being), and Taha Whānau (Family Well-being). When these four aspects are balanced, then we thrive.

To learn more about Mates in Construction, go to :

Su***de Prevention in Construction - Mates in Construction NZ Su***de prevention in Construction, New Zealand. The MATES programme builds communities in the workplace and across the industry.

Oh Look! An opportunity to see behind the scenes of how we at Tennent Brown work.

From 3-6pm we'll be opening our doors, so come along and have a chat!

We're located on Level 6 of the Hope Gibbons Building at 7-11 Dixon Street, Te Aro.

Today Ewan presented at the EBOSS Specified 2023 conference as their architectural keynote speaker, discussing all things carbon and LBC!

https://www.eboss.co.nz/events/specified/specified-2023/speakers

After many years of hard work, we're excited to see the completion of 40 and 44 Bowen Street as part of the Bowen Street Campus development.

Huge thanks to Precinct Properties, LT McGuinness Ltd, RCP, Dunning Thornton Consultants, Holmes and the other collaborators working along side us.

📸 Jason Mann Photography (NZ)

"...lending a sense of natural beauty that harks back to the original stone building... juxtaposed against concrete elements and tied together by a substantial, chunky roofline with timber-lined eaves, which has the effect of creating a physical as well as an emotional shelter over the building."

Read about our cladding selection in the Holy Trinity Avonside rebuild.

https://tinyurl.com/yhpemc7s

Pā Reo, Ōtaki, 2023.

Pā Reo Campus is now complete! Designed to reflect and support ngā kaupapa o Te Wānanga o Raukawa.

The creation of Pā Reo was to create an enclave of administrative, research and educational facilities, within a broader campus master plan, to support te reo Māori ānake.

Fantastic to see the project complete, so we'll be sharing a variety of images in the coming weeks.

https://tennentbrown.co.nz/projects/maori/pa-reo-campus



📸 Andy Spain Photography

A very special day today with the dawn ceremony today at Pa Reo at Te Wananga o Raukawa in Otaki. The southern cross pointing to our new building on a clear morning, and the unveiling of Chris the carver and our friends Makers new irirangi korero.
Nga mihi ki a koutou

We are very proud of our William Creighton who is one of the team of 4 who revealed and blessed the 2023 Brick Bay Folly today. And a very proud mum!

Today we were lucky enough to visit 40 and 44 Bowen Street. Working on this project has been an absolute privilege and it's great to see it so close to completion.

Celebrating our newest member - Chloe Coles!

Read what Chloe has said about being a woman in architecture here: https://tennentbrown.co.nz/news/international-womens-day-chloe-coles

Photo of Chloe: Hazel Redmond Photographer

Photo of Addington Townhouse: Sarah Rowlands Photography

Action shot from last night's annual bowls event. Fantastic to have a great turnout from all and for the weather to hold out!

Slessor Architects
Architecture+
Parsonsons
Tennent Brown
Wraight and Associates
HMOA
John Mills
Nick Bevin

Sport won on the day!

Te Ara a Tawhaki, Te Wānanga o Raukawa – Ōtaki

Working with master carver Te Whetū Mārama o te Ata Kereama, Te Ara a Tawhaki provides students with a safe haven to explore holistic education opportunities at this Wānanga.

Andy Spain Photography

The Living Pā is starting to take shape.

The first timber column was lifted into place this week; the first of many elements that make up the timber superstructure.
At 9 cubic meters, the LVL column is a 1500x1200T, has 1088 screws in it and is one piece of the carbon sequestering puzzle.

An exceptional team effort by all involved.




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Tennent Brown is now officially B Corp Certified!

As a B Corp, we’re part of a global community of business that meet high standards of social and environmental impact.
It means that Tennent Brown has been independently verified as meeting B Lab’s high standards for social & environmental impact, demonstrating accountability and transparency by disclosing the record of performance in a public B Corp profile. Based on the B Impact assessment, we were assessed according to 5 impact areas – Governance, Workers, Community, Environment & Customer, and achieved an overall score of 93.7.

Currently, we are 1 of 90 companies certified in New Zealand, 1 of 500 in Australasia, and 1 of 4000 globally.
We are very excited to be the 1st NZ Architecture firm to be B Corp certified, and we hope that by sharing our happy news, we also spread awareness so that many more in the architecture and building industry will join the B Corp movement. Together, let’s be a force for good!
Do click on our B Corp public profile to learn more https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/tennent-brown-architects

Te Raekura Redcliffs School Update!

Bringing the community and culture in - ArchitectureNow
https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/bringing-the-community-and-culture-in/

Project information:
https://tennentbrown.co.nz/projects/education/te-raekura-redcliffs-school

Images: Andy Spain, Supplied

Saturday provided an sunny opportunity to bless the site for Living Pā with Fr Barry Scannell SM. We're honored to have him on board with this process. The project follows the Living Building Challenge guidelines to intersect high levels of sustainable building practice with cultural and social consideration.
Client - Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Project team includes - LT McGuiness Ltd, RLB, eCubed Ltd, Rider Levett Bucknall, and Dunning Thornton Consultants.