Pepper Architects

26/09/2023

02/10/2022

05/09/2022

Architects struggle with creating powerful websites because they approach it from the wrong angle. Here are some tips to point you in the right direction.

28/08/2022

Widespread unionization would help architecture businesses thrive as well as giving workers a fair deal and firm leaders should not stand in its way, says Architectural Workers United.

06/10/2021

Transfering the true cost of development may well be the best way to cap urban sprawl. Urban planing by stealth. A quicker & easier lever than endless nimby forums, legal and planning department red tape. Aka the reform of the Resource Management act.

Auckland is currently in the middle of a massive building boom with consents reaching a new all-time high in August with just under 20,000 issued in the last 12 months. It’s no surprise then that

10/02/2021

What a great idea! I’ve been dreaming of this for 15 years! So glad to see someone else thinks this is a good idea too

This is a guest post from Nick R The great irony of urban motorways is that they use up huge amounts of the very thing they are intended to access: land. All surface transport infrastructure naturally consumes land. However, while … Continued

05/12/2020

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/300175287/how-past-generations-pulled-up-the-property-ladder-on-todays-youth

OPINION: Youth seem to have realised there’s no point in bothering with democracy when it refuses to address the biggest wealth transfer in our history.

21/07/2020

Ludicrously good design

The Glen House designed by Richard Neutra in 1959. Photo: SmartMLS Inc.

31/03/2020

https://www.readingdesign.org/250-things
Fk I only know maybe a hundy!
Thank u Michael Sorkin 4 gracing this earth.

  1.    The feel of cool marble under bare feet.  2.    How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months.  3.    With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week.  4.    The modulus of rupture.  5.    The distance a shout carries in the city.  6.    The distan...

16/01/2020

17/11/2019

This has the potential to be the architects “metoo” moment. as someone who spent most of my kids childhoods working days nights & weekends to meet insane deadlines driven by bottom dollar fee bids & “time is money” driven development programmes. The weakest link to our competing other architectural firms for work always being the labour unit in a still labour driven profession. The lack of the union has seen our value- well devalued.
Employees need to get behind this, so do architectural institutes, and last but not least architectural firms with any kind of moral spine.- all together. The moment one firm steps outside this triade they have a competitive advantage over their competitors.

Unpaid overtime, unfair pay and harassment in the workplace are just some of the reasons that architecture workers in the UK have formed a grassroots trade union for the first time.

12/10/2019

The transformation of housing into yet another investment vehicle. A USA analysis that bears a striking resemblance to our situation here in NZ. Housing (the family home dream) has always been the single most predominant form of asset accumulation here in NZ & our whole social welfare & tax system is based around the assumption that we all own our own homes. Take that away and things start to fall apart pretty quickly...

The Great Housing Reset has led to growing numbers of single-family homes shifting from owner-occupied housing to investment vehicles for large corporations.