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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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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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Guess what we’ve been doing?
Quite a lot, really. We’ve been busier than a mosquito at a nudist beach. With a raft of projects on the go across New Zealand, we’re active in sectors as varied as iwi-led and multi-tenanted commercial developments, healthcare and aged care, education, social housing, residential, and government agency initiatives. As projects progress and…
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You could be here
Spend Summer in this beautiful home on the shores of Lake Rotoiti There is only one catch – you have to buy it. The house is on the market in time for the best summer holiday you’ll ever have. What use is a lake house without ample storage for boats and water sport gear? The…
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Winds of change
Manaaki Ora`s new wellness centre is designed to meet their aspirations of creating a culturally representative home for the counselling and support services they provide – providing a welcoming, inclusive, non-clinical facility that their community will feel comfortable and at home in. Through a deep process of collaboration and exploration we developed a design response…
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They got him
It finally happened. NZ Police have caught up with the ringleader at DCA. Darryl Church has been spending hours assisting representatives of New Zealand’s policing and justice systems with their enquiries over recent weeks. We always thought his quick wit and quirky sense of humour would get him in trouble one day. It’s not today…
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NZIA 2021 Awards – shortlisted projects
We’re excited that we will soon be hosting jury visits at four of our projects which have been shortlisted for the 2021 NZIA Waikato Bay of Plenty awards. From the commercial, civic public space, luxury multi-apartment and lakeside residential sectors – we’re covering a lot of bases. Black Gables, Lake Tarawera. Photography: Nick Lambert Cultural…
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MTGA
Making Tokoroa Great Again. In 2017 South Waikato District Council commissioned DCA Architects of Transformation to undertake the redevelopment of Leith Place. Located on the edge of State Highway One, thousands of motorists pass by every day without a reason to stop. “But that is about to change” says Managing Director Darryl Church. The re-developed…
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Trophy Haul
The regional BOP and Waikato 2020 ADNZ awards has seen DCA has take out awards and commendations in five categories: From commercial building and fit-out, to luxury residential apartments, capped with the ‘Resene Colour in Design’ regional award for the Holland Beckett commercial interior.
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An icon of Health & Wellness
With the recent release of the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) update for Rotorua the Government announced it would be injecting $17M into Rotorua health and tourism facilities. $8M of this is for the new QE Health & Wellness building. DCA Architects of Transformation are proud to reveal that we have been appointed to the project…
