Cocoro wins Auckland Architecture Award

Last night Cocoro was presented with a local architecture award in the Interior Architecture Category at the 2011 NZIA Auckland Architecture Awards, held at the Auckland Art Gallery.

Gary Lawson, jury convener of the Institute of Architects’ Auckland regional awards, said that a record number of entries were submitted.

The jury commented on the project: “This project demonstrates the simple and engaging use of an existing marginal space. The furniture offers comfort and character and architectural battens provide aesthetic interest and, pragmatically, as screen for acoustic materials. In devising this cleverly ordered restaurant, the Architect has achieved much with a small space and a limited budget.”

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TVNZ AMP Business

“Good Looking Stores”. Mark Gascoigne talks to AMP Business presenter Nadine Chalmers-Ross about the in-store retail shopping experience versus online shopping and review 2011 Best Award Gold winning stores Glassons Flagship Store in Newmarket and the Telecom New Concept Store in Victoria Street. Click on the link to view the show.

Gold at the 2011 Best Awards

Gascoigne Associates took away some prestigious Gold awards at the 2011 Best Design Awards Ceremony held at the Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland last Friday night. Glassons Flagship Store Newmarket and Telecom New Concept Store Victoria Street both won Gold in the retail environment category while Cocoro restaurant won Gold in the hospitality group. The ‘Clothes Hangar’ project, designed by Gascoigne Associates and entered by Air New Zealand, won Gold in the offices and workplace environments category.  

ZILN

 

Gascoigne introduces ‘Historic Ponsonby Building Tour’, a series for ZILN (New Zealand’s internet tv network), looking at buildings and the part they played in making New Zealand’s best known suburb. Images courtesy Te Papa Auckland City Alexander Turnbull Library.

 

Click here to view part 2 of the ‘Historic Ponsonby Building Tour’, looking at historic Ponsonby buildings, including the Leys Institute, the Old Ponsonby Fire Station and Post Office and more.

Click here to view part 1 of the ‘Historic Ponsonby Building Tour’.

 

Resene Colour awards

From the Resene website: “Gascoigne Associates were awarded the Resene Total Colour Commercial Interior – Office Award for http://www.gascoigneretail.com/news/ office fit-out and also won the Resene Total Colour Commercial Interior – Public + Retail Award for the dressed up colour scheme at the Glassons Flagship store in Newmarket. This project also won a Resene Total Colour Nightingale Maestro Award.”

You can find the article about the Resene Total Colour Awards on the Resene website and more on Architecture Now and NZRIA.