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	About Wellington - Innovation Capital - Art & Design - Wellington - New Zealand
		Ian was awarded the New Zealand Institute of Architects' Gold Medal, their highest honour, in 2004.
		Ian is widely admired for his thoughtful, innovative, often provocative but always accomplished work, which includes Civic Square and Wellington Library, Jade Stadium in Christchurch, Victoria University's Student Union Building, a number of waterfront refurbishments such as Shed 22 and Odlins, and public spaces such as Taranaki Wharf.
		Ian was also involved in the concept design of the rapid transport system in Bangkok.
	www.wellington.govt.nz /aboutwgtn/innovation/details/athfield.html (264 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Athfield, Ian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 1968 he formed Athfield Architects with Ian Dickson (b 1949) and Graeme John Boucher (b 1944).
		Additive plans, fragmented forms and allusions to the traditions of New Zealand colonial architecture characterize designs such as Athfield house, Wellington (begun 1968), and Cox house, Wellington (1975).
		Athfield works closely with clients, often involving them in the construction process.
	www.artnet.com /library/00/0048/T004847.asp (265 words)

	Civic Square, Wellington, New Zealand
		The civic centre project brief was for a new library, conversion of existing library into the City Gallery, extension and refurbishment of City Council buildings, earthquake strengthening and refurbishment of the Old Town Hall, car parking space, design of the new public space and imperative to the development was a link to the developing waterfront.
		Ian Athfield was to take the dominant role in the civic centre project and was directly responsible for the new library, a new children’s museum and the square itself.
		Athfield’s enduring idea of ‘setting’ being almost always as important as the building itself was central to the development of the square.
	www.venueweb.co.nz /north/10_wellington/civic_sq/civic.htm (655 words)

	Ian Athfield - Alumni and Advancement - The University of Auckland
		Ian Athfield - Alumni and Advancement - The University of Auckland
		Ian is a prominent and influential architect of Wellington, who pioneered a distinctive style of hillside house, rough and earthy in texture with rounded shapes.
		Ian received a Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997.
	www.alumni.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/for/alumni/profiles/profiles/a_d/ian_athfield.cfm (96 words)

	Adam \| Art Gallery - The Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The site chosen for the Adam Art Gallery, the Culliford stair, was built in the mid 1960s to provide a circulation route between various buildings on the University campus.
		The staircase forms the centre of the Gallery and is integral to Athfield's final architectural form.
		Athfield's gallery derives its scale and form from the pre-existing aspects of the site.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /adamartgal/02-building-info.html (338 words)

	SEASC, 9th South East Asia Survey Congress 2007
		Ian Athfield (Ath) is the founding Principal of Athfield Architects Ltd and has been responsible for the majority of the company’s design work throughout New Zealand.
		Professor Ian Spellerberg is Director of the Isaac Centre for Nature Conservation at Lincoln University.
		Previously he was Director of the Centre for Environmental Sciences at Southampton University, U.K. While in the U.K. he contributed to discussion that led to the establishment of the Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management.
	www.conference.co.nz /index.cfm/surveyors2007/Speakers (2496 words)

	Athfield Architects: Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 1999
		Designed by Athfield Architects, the building is truly unusual and different from an ordinary exhibition gallery.
		The art gallery located on the Kelburn campus of Victoria University in Wellington is built on the space remaining between three university buildings of different ages: the Old Kirk Building, the Hunter Building and the Student Union Building.
		The gallery was completed in September of 1999 to mark the Queen Victoria centennial; it measures 330 square metres and houses a great variety of continually changing collections.
	www.floornature.com /articoli/articolo.php/id130/sez3/en (599 words)

	Places that capture Kiwis' hearts: 1 - Mainlander - The Press
		Ian Athfield, of Wellington, president of the New Zealand Institute of Architects
		New Zealand has buildings of international significance but they are not in gothic stone, says architect Ian Athfield.
		Athfield says some urban precincts are worthy of preservation but would not rate World Heritage recognition.
	www.stuff.co.nz /thepress/4104521a13135.html (851 words)

	Wellington architecture
		With their zany peaks, turrets, and round windows, his buildings were a deliberate move away from the clean formal lines of the "International Style" promoted by earlier Modernists such as Plischke.
		Athfield Architects, and Aasen Athfield + Co, 1968-1993.
		Ian Athfield (and his firm, Athfield Architects), is today one of the most recognised names in contemporary New Zealand Architecture.
	www.wcl.govt.nz /wellington/architecture.html (2613 words)

	endex - Engineering industry directory and information resource.
		Victoria Street has proved the most difficult of all Wellington CBD streets to revitalise; in spite of its signature building being the Ian Athfield designed public library with its trademark metallic nikau palms.
		Presumably Ian Cassells, proprietor of The Wellington Company, will be observing Chews Lane at every glass panel installed along the way.
		He intends to out Athfield the celebrated Ian Athfield, who for the past 35 years has enjoyed an unchallenged reputation as the capital’s most innovative creator of structures.
	www.endex.co.nz /article.php?id=528 (876 words)

	Wellington Marine Conservation Trust
		A collaboration between Ian Athfield of Athfield Architects, Keith Wilson of Sedgwick Group Architects and Megan Wraight of Wraight and Associates Landscape Architects, resulted in a building that will imitate the journey offered by the centre to visitors.
		You enter from the coast and travel the Cook Strait Pathway, an internal journey through the building, down through a wide range of marine habitats, and back up to the coast.
		Ian, who leads the design team, was last year awarded the New Zealand Institute of Architects' highest honour, the 2004 Gold Medal.
	www.aquariumnz.org.nz /building_introduction.shtml (753 words)

	The Big Idea
		Join architect Ian Athfield, industrial designer Ross Stevens, typographer/designer Catherine Griffiths, type designer/director Len Cheeseman and co-director of the Weta companies Richard Taylor as they share insights, stories and personal reflections about their careers that are also passions.
		IAN ATHFIELD: 45 Years Of Learning To Be An Architect
		Join Ian Athfield, Director of Athfield Architects (Wellington and Christchurch), as he considers architecture in relation to the environment and the neighbourhood it is built within.
	www.thebigidea.co.nz /print.php?sid=2953 (333 words)

	Walking - Explore Wellington: The Waterfront (walk 1) - Feeling Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		They were designed by architect Ian Athfield to be both inviting and engender public pride.
		The Nikau Palms outside were also designed by Athfield Architects and built in conjunction with Wellington marine engineer Johnny Mines.
		Inside the Library are a number of artworks, including clocks designed by Duncan Sargent, the Information Desk in the form of an abstract of a waka/canoe by Alan Brown, children’s curtains by local children and hanging paintings by Fergus Collinson.
	feelinggreat.co.nz /walking/8622-explore-wellington-the-waterfront.php (3168 words)

	Natural Habitat (acreage/lifestyle / blue chip address / close to beach / excellent location) - Premium Real Estate - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The work of renowned architect Ian Athfield, this property has been held up as an exemplar of unique design to architectural students since it was built in 1974.
		Over the past year it has undergone a major refurbishment that while maintaining the architectural integrity of the original design has provided all the latest features of modern homes.
		Within its trademark Athfield design is a home offering an interesting series of linked living spaces built for light, warmth and comfort.
	www.premium.co.nz /currentlymarketed/viewlisting.php?id=6957 (243 words)

	Wellington city guide - Telegraph
		The man most responsible for the easy coexistence of the traditional with the modern in Wellington is Ian Athfield.
		New Zealand's best-known architect, a local boy, has blurred the distinctions between art, architecture and landscape with works such as the Skyline restaurant, which rises out of the Botanic Gardens like a Maori mask, and the copper mikau palms that line the walkways and squares.
		In the Civic Square, the undulating glass curtain-wall of his prize-winning library looks on to a pyramid, symbolising the mountains coming down to the sea.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /travel/main.jhtml?&xml=/travel/2000/03/18/etwell5.xml (855 words)

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		A huge personality in New Zealand a r c h i t e c t u r e, Ian Athfield has throughout his highly productive career s p a n n i n g four decades, generated work that is accomplished and often provocative.
		From the design of relatively conservative structures in the South Island b a s e d early career, the Athfield residence above Wellington harbour was the structure through which Athfield truly revealed himself.
		Athfield's architecture is stimulating, challenging, ever-changing, but never careless.
	www.resene.co.nz /pdf/nzia_2004.txt (1444 words)

	Group pulls plug on harbour court action - News - Dominion Post
		The court action, against Wellington City Council and the port company, involved challenging a decision to grant resource consent for the 12 office and retail buildings planned for the eastern side of Aotea Quay.
		Vibrant Wellington is a group of prominent Wellingtonians and includes mountain runner Kate McIlroy and architect Ian Athfield.
		Spokesman Ian Cassels said "open and honest" negotiations with CentrePort had led to the dropping of the court action, which had cost the group "substantially more than $100,000".
	www.stuff.co.nz /4156355a6479.html (333 words)

	Property Enterprise Board
		Ian has extensive planning and large project experience, much of this has been in the public sector realm.
		Ian is also one of New Zealand's leading architects.
		Nigel is an experienced property developer and entrepreneur who has a passion for Auckland.
	www.aucklandcity.govt.nz /auckland/economy/property/default.asp (548 words)

	WellUrban: Playing favourites #3: First Church of Christ Scientist
		The First Church of Christ Scientist in upper Willis St is one of Ian Athfield's most enigmatic creations.
		Solomon's view was that the congregation was the strength of the church, not the physical structure.
		I recall some years ago reading an article on Athfield's work in the Dominion Post in which he stated that he had particularly enjoyed designing this building.
	wellurban.blogspot.com /2007/04/playing-favourites-3-first-church-of.html (699 words)

	Wine Country Lodge - About Havelock North, Hawkes Bay New Zealand
		Havelock North has been a desirable environment, attracting talented and colourful independent philosophers, artists and writers (like Alan Duff), for generations.
		It has a remarkable architectural heritage including many stately homesteads, with contributions by outstanding New Zealand architects like William Gummer, William Rush, James Chapman Taylor and Ian Athfield.
		The Village grew up around St Luke's Anglican Church, built in 1874 from native timbers rimu and kauri and designed by Napier architect Thomas Cooper in the style of English wooden churches familiar to the local settlers.
	www.winecountrylodge.com /abouthn.shtml (1275 words)

	Commonwealth Association of Architects
		The competition was judged on the 6th April 2000 at the Wellington University School of Architecture.
		The jury was chaired by Peter Davey, editor of the Architectural Review, with Dr Ken Yeang of TR Hamzah and Yeang, Malaysia and Ian Athfield of Athfield Architects, New Zealand.
		CAA extends its thanks to the Wellington school for their excellent administration of the receiving of entries and the judging process, in particular the School Head, Werner Osterhaus and his PA Patricia Mclean.
	www.comarchitect.org /award_student_2000.htm (1515 words)

	Lichfield Lanes
		The vision for the project has been developed by B.B.S utilising a study under taken by architect Ian Athfield in 1997-8, and includes plans for more public space.
		The vision was unveiled to local business people and building owners by B.B.S, the Council and Athfield Architects recently.
		Although change is always unsettling the vision proposed was well received and many felt it would ultimately see this area adding to the revitalisation work already undertaken nearby in High Street.
	www.lichfieldlanes.co.nz (287 words)

	cuisine.co.nz - food - farmers come to town
		Moore Wilson’s has refurbished its former bulk store in Porirua, in a continuing association with renowned architect Ian Athfield, who did the earthquake-inspired “broken” premises in Wellington’s Tory St.
		Wafting through the market will be the delectable smells of fresh coffee, courtesy of one of the capital’s many roasters, along with bacon butties, brat in a bun and the like made by Wellington smallgoods specialist Harringtons.
		This company has relocated from Island Bay to premises adjoining the market hall, and under the direction of Ian Hornblow, formerly maître d’ at the award-winning Café Bastille, is the on-site caterer.
	www.cuisine.co.nz /index.cfm?pageID=49336&r=5 (424 words)

	Wellington - Visit New Zealand's gastronomic capital
		The thoroughly modern Civic Square, behind the visitor centre, is a good place to start your sightseeing before making the short walk to the waterfront and Wellington's star attraction, the Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa Tongarewa).
		A popular venue for outdoor events, Civic Square was revamped in the early 1990s by Wellington architect Ian Athfield and is full of interesting sculptures, with a couple of buildings worth a quick visit.
		About 500m east of the bridge, on Cable Street, is the Museum of New Zealand or Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington's star attraction and the country's first national museum.
	www.cntraveller.com /guides/New_Zealand/Wellington/Default.aspx?Page=4 (461 words)

	Wellington Sculpture Trust - Gallery
		Made possible with the generous support of ANZ Banking Group, Creative NZ, Credit Suisse First Boston, Telecom NZ Ltd, Tower Financial Services Group Ltd, Saatchi and Saatchi, Scollay Holdings and Wellington City Council.
		What I've aimed for is a sort of delicate intricacy that can float over the top of the palms so the two elements can work with each other.
		"What I wanted to do with my sphere was to extend Athfield's poetry by adding variety in the form of five different ferns because, of course, the basic form of the nikau is overlapping ferns."
	www.sculpture.org.nz /engine/SID/10007/AID/1047.htm (151 words)

	Amazon.com: Joyful architecture: The genius of New Zealand's Ian Athfield: Books: Gerald Melling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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		Joyful architecture: The genius of New Zealand's Ian Athfield (Unknown Binding)
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	www.amazon.com /Joyful-architecture-genius-Zealands-Athfield/dp/090856290X (516 words)

	Nelson Provincial Museum, New Zealand - Town Acre 445
		Town Acre 445 is the public face of the Museum.
		The Town Acre 445 project involved redeveloping an Ian Athfield-designed building on the corner of Trafalgar and Hardy Streets, Nelson.
		The 1800 square metre space was refurbished and outfitted to tell the stories and display the treasures of Nelson City and Tasman District.
	www.museumnp.org.nz /ta445.html (282 words)

	Museum Piece
		But does Lochhead - or anyone - have any alternatives to Athfield's plans or must the museum remain in limbo?
		When the Canterbury Museum Trust Board gained Christchurch City Council approval for significant renovations to its historic buildings, the Canterbury Civic Trust and heritage advocates, including Lochhead and Peter and Lesley Beaven, led the opposition.
		Ian Athfield’s plans for the Museum Trust Board included
	www.historic.org.nz /magazinefeatures/2006Spring/2006_Museum_Piece_htm.htm (1744 words)

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