CÉILI MURPHY

As the inside sector lead at Architectus Aotearoa, Céili Murphy combines creativity, strategic considering and a dedication to sustainability to design areas that uplift and encourage. Whereas collaborating throughout various typologies, she is especially keen about office design, believing wholesome, well-designed environments are important to productiveness and well-being. Initially from Nelson, Céili accomplished a Bachelor of High-quality Arts and Bachelor of Arts on the College of Auckland’s Elam Faculty of High-quality Arts and the College of Melbourne respectively earlier than transitioning to inside structure 15 years in the past. Céili can be energetic in mentoring and visitor lecturing, fostering a supportive and various design group.

MURALI BHASKAR

Murali Bhaskar is a director at Boon in Ngāmotu New Plymouth. With greater than 30 years’ expertise in master-planning civic, group, cultural, city design and residential typologies, he has additionally labored on each tourism and schooling initiatives. Initially hailing from Kerala in South India, Murali has actively developed his understanding of ngā tikanga o Taranaki and engaged with native iwi and hapū in his work. He has been a decide on quite a few design panels in Aotearoa and appears to blur the boundaries between media, interpretation, artwork, design and structure in his personal work.

NATASHA MARKHAM

A registered architect and certified city designer, Natasha Markham based MAUD in 2015 as a boutique studio specialising in well-crafted residential and business structure, and providing city design providers to initiatives in any respect scales. Whereas her architectural background consists of quite a lot of initiatives, she has a specific curiosity in each bespoke residential and medium-density housing. Natasha is a chair for the Auckland City Design Panel, and the Tauranga City Design Panel, and a co-host of 76 Small Rooms, a podcast about structure in Aotearoa.

SAM GRIFFIN

Sam Griffin is the artistic director of Ctrl House, a trans-Tasman design studio which has crafted a few of this nation’s most celebrated hospitality venues. Having labored at various practices specialising in inside design, structure and product design, he has developed a depth of experience in business hospitality interiors. Since moving into the Ctrl House artistic director position in 2018, Sam has targeted on pushing the boundaries of design and exploring new artistic frontiers. He’s dedicated to delivering initiatives that compete on the worldwide stage, fostering innovation and positioning Aotearoa as a design-led vacation spot.

AMANDA HARKNESS

Convening the jury for her fifth 12 months, Amanda Harkness is the deputy editor and inside editor at Structure NZ journal, a former editor of Homes, and previous contributor to each Urbis and Inside magazines. In her position at Structure NZ, Amanda is throughout the newest in each inside and structure initiatives, and the designers and purchasers who carry them to life.

KEY DATES

Entries open Tuesday 21 January
Entries shut Wednesday 30 April
Finalists introduced Thursday 8 Could
Finalists’ dwell shows Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 Could
Awards night time Thursday 26 June