How may the village of Devonport, with its fantastic pure setting and heritage primary road, be tailored and enhanced into an invigorated and sustainable city centre that addresses the long run wants of locals for extra housing, workplaces and facilities, a stronger native economic system, and higher connection between the maunga, Takarunga Mt Victoria and the moana?
This collaborative challenge shares artistic propositions for the long run growth of Devonport village on Auckland’s North Shore, from an general masterplan and particular person websites labored up in fashions and visualisations.
Led by Devonport locals Julie Stout (Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects gold medal recipient) and architect Ken Davis, this exhibition options the work of 18 Structure Masters college students from the College of Auckland Faculty of Structure and Planning.
City Variations – Devonport TomorrowWednesday 16 July – Sunday 27 July 2025Exhibition opening: Wednesday 16 July at 3 Victoria Highway, 6pm to 8pmVenue: Depot Artspace, 3 Victoria Highway, Devonport
City Variations – Devonport Tomorrow dovetails with the exhibition/set up Constructing (Underneath the Volcano) on the Whare Toi. This challenge is a collaboration between artist Richard Reddaway (Massey College Faculty of Artistic Arts), designer and architectural historian Kate Linzey (The Architectural Centre), and architect Matt Liggins and structure college students from the College of Auckland’s Bachelor of Architectural Research. It explores suburban constructed environments and the family tree of types that represent Te Hau Kapua Devonport to ponder relationships to the whenua, how we select to create our properties and the way completely different cultural understandings and expressions of house form our suburban surroundings.
Constructing (Underneath the Volcano)Monday 14 July – Saturday 19 July 2025The Depot’s Whare Toi, Kerr Road, Devonport
Public ProgrammesArchitecture and concrete growth panel dialogue, lectures and movies at The Vic are deliberate over the length of the exhibition (to be suggested).
