Our team participated in Volunteer Day at Te Raekaihau reserve, contributing to native tree planting, weeding, and track maintenance as part of our "Day for You, Day for Us" programme. We are proud to support Te Ohu o Te Raekaihau’s mission to restore the indigenous connections of this significant land for future generations.
Putting down the digital tools to pick up gardening tools.
Last month the team headed out to Ngā Hau E Whā O Paparārangi marae to lend a helping hand to their gardens. Based in Newlands, the marae has incredible views over the Wellington harbour with a few lawns, vege garden, and perimeter planting. We chucked on our gardening gloves and got stuck into some planting, harvesting flax, and weeding.
Massey University’s new veterinary science complex has been blessed and is now open for use. Kaumatua Manu Kawana and representatives from Rangitāne o Manawatū led a dawn karakia, waiata. Key members of Tāwharau Ora, the College of Sciences, and those involved in the design and construction, attended the ceremony and walk-through of the new facilities.
Our team's talents stretch far beyond architecture and design. We're also painters, photographers, digital artists, renderers, crafters, builders and so much more. Our “Day For Us” initiative, created three years ago, gives everybody an opportunity to pursue one of their passions or explore something new.
Pynenburg & Collins takes great pride in recognising the success and professional development of our hardworking team. We are delighted to announce the recent promotions and changes to our senior management team with Mark Holmes and Melissa Edwards becoming Principals and Lien Bui becoming an Associate.
It’s with great pleasure that we announce Mark Holmes and Melissa Edwards have been appointed as Principals. Over the years Mark and Melissa have both contributed to and led a number of key projects, displaying strong collaborative and leadership skills. The work they have produced during this time has been of the highest standard, and we’re regularly surprised and delighted by what they are able to develop alongside our clients.
The relationship between architecture and light is everything. We design around light to enhance the quality of life within a space. The sun provides an array of qualities that transforms the built environment, will it be in your home or workplace. Utilising sun and daylight can be highly cost-effective by reducing energy for artificial lighting, cooling and heating. Ample daylight can create a pleasant visual environment which also enhances user comfort, mood and health. In short, a well lit space determines the success of a space - will it be used, when will it be used.
One of our Architectural Graduates, Tayla, has recently achieved her Masters of Architecture degree at Victoria University of Wellington, and we are so very proud! We thought this would be a great chance to share her fifth year thesis which explored the current constraints in existing medium-density housing in New Zealand.
Giving back to our community is so very important for us and for the last couple of years we have teamed up with the incredible team at Volunteer Wellington. We decided to implement a "Day for You, Day for Us" initiative and it has been very rewarding.
For #NVW2020 we thought we would share some of the volunteer work we've done recently (including a few sneaky photos we got of some of the team in action).
Lab-works Architecture, in collaboration with Parker Warburton Team Architects, are proud winners of three NZIA 2019 Southern Architecture Awards in the Education and Resene Colour Award categories. In addition Lab-works Architecture also received a Merit Award under the 2019 Property Council of New Zealand, Property Industry Awards.
