Don Jamieson Architecture

14/02/2025

New images of the Whataitai Hub after a year's occupation. A light-filled, nature connected, place of learning, with spaces for quiet time, individual study, making & cooking things, and group activities.

12/09/2024

A new canopy space provides a comfortable outdoor extension to the learning environment, along with creating an additional point of harmonic interest adjacent to the school’s Waharoa.

03/09/2024

Recladding this 1970’s school building, with several later additions, provided plenty of challenges but unified a complex group of buildings.

30/08/2024

The new learning suite at Kilbirnie School makes the most of providing a range of outdoor environments, from the field, turf, Garden to Table planting spaces, ‘secret garden’ space, and the interior space being wrapped with a wide, sheltered verandah.

21/06/2024

Beautiful mid-winter day in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington. Perfect for leaving the office early for a walk.
Happy Solstice.

20/12/2023

Wishing eveyone one happy holidays. Or, if you are working through the Christmas period, thank you and may that be a low stress time.

05/07/2023

Tracer Construction making great progress on Kilbirnie School's new learning hub.

08/06/2023

Skeleton in place for another low-carbon building

24/06/2022

Happy Matariki

https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/maori/matariki-maori-new-year/whare-tapere/matariki-star-facts

21/06/2022

Interesting timing reading this article today, on the Solstice!
I wonder if they have read The Solar War by AJ Riddle?

Architect Carlo Ratti is among a group of MIT researchers exploring the feasibility of fighting climate change with a conglomeration of "space bubbles" that would float above the Earth to reflect the sun's rays.

22/12/2021

Our work's done for the year, so we will see you in 2022.
Enjoy your holidays. Kia pai ngā hararei

PS: Happy solstice as well. ☀️

20/03/2021

Happy equinox.
There's not much better than a sunroom/conservatory to keep you and your house warm over winter. This recent design includes an outdoor fire and pizza oven to extend winter living closer to nature.