Author / darrylchurch
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Want to get hot and steamy?
DCA Architects recently completed the QE Health and Wellness centre located in Rotorua. The facility uses a holistic health approach to healing, and uses HOT and STEAMY geothermal waters for treatments. https://dcaarchitects.co.nz/portfolio/qe-health-and-wellness-centre/
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Seven, yes 7, lots of recognition for two projects in the past two months.
Te Kura o Te Whanau a Apanui in Te kaha, completed in association with MOAA Architects has won an NZIA Waikato/BoP regional award, then shortlisted for NZIA NZ architecture award, then two ADNZ Waikato/BoP regional awards for commercial and Kaitiakitanga Sustainability. Then Heretaunga Intermediate technology block in Hastings won two ADNZ Hawkes/Poverty Bay regional commercial…
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LEA Conference – Christchurch 2023
In line with one of our core values “Lifelong Learners”, Werner, Nick and Marie recently attended the Learning Environments Australasia conference in Christchurch. Over a couple of days the team listened to leading educationalists from around the globe. This was followed by visiting built examples of learning environments that have taken the opportunity post-earthquake to…
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What’s better than 3? 4 of course!!
Well…They might be a few years off from being employees, but Nick Chibnall-West, Keegan Mitchell & Michael Leung have been busy lately juggling father and work duties with their new offspring. Congratulation Nick and Chelsea on the arrival of Phoebe, Keegan & Carlee with twins Harvee and Luka, and Michael & Christina welcomed Ash to…
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ACG Tauranga College block is complete
ACG Tauranga is a private school catering for pre-school through to year 13. DCA Architects were engaged to master plan future growth and design a new teaching block catering for college students. The new facility provides a Library, Art Studio, Science laboratory and learning spaces to allow for the schools STEAM based education programme to…
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Awards are great but transforming lives is better
National Winner for Category 07 – Commercial/Industrial It is a significant acknowledgment and achievement to be awarded the 2022 National winner in the Commercial/Industrial category of the ADNZ awards. We have received numerous building user testimonials that give us confidence that we have achieved what we set out to do. The following were some of…
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We advise viewer discretion
Some of the DCA team recently celebrated all the hard work of 2022 with a game of paintball. This soon turned into a hunt for blood and bruising when directors Darryl & Werner were made to run the gauntlet. Luckily, they both survived with only their feelings hurt, and a little bit of blood. The…
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TEMC 2022
In September our Managing Director, Darryl Church, attended the TEMC (Tertiary Education Management Conference) in Hobart. It was a great opportunity to attend many insightful workshops and presentations throughout the week. “Hearing about the advances in education, research and facilities design is essential for us to assist our own clients achieve education environments on the…
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Chief Cat-herder appointed
DCA welcomes our new General Manager As a team of highly-skilled, creative individuals – the DCA team relies on our business-savvy administrative personnel for keeping everything on track and running smoothly. We’re pleased to introduce Julie Morrison, who takes on the General Manager role at DCA – working closely with the firm’s Directors, and keeping…
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That’s a hat-trick
We’re thrilled to announce that St. John’s Church, which was shortlisted for the 2022 NZIA awards and submitted for the ADNZ awards, has been successful in both competitions across multiple categories in the Waikato/Bay of Plenty region. The church took out wins in both the Commercial/Industrial design category and the Commercial Interior category with ADNZ,…
