Category / Team / The Drawing Board
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Welcome home
Jacqui Topless is the most recent addition to our team. Her freshly completed Masters of Architecture degree endeavours to answer the question ‘How can an architectural intervention facilitate the return of taonga to iwi in Aotearoa/New Zealand’, with her thesis titled, ‘Welcome Home: Return, Rehabilitation and Reconnection; Architecture as a Kaitiaki for Taonga Māori’. During…
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Supreme Award
2019 was DCA Architects’ first year as a participant in The Westpac Rotorua Business Excellence Awards. We were unsure of how we’d measure up against other businesses across different fields and entered with no preconceived expectations. In the Judge’s own words: Customer Focus – “There is great depth of analysis and response with an overall…
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Young Gun
The DCA crew welcomes the latest addition to the team – Keegan Mitchell. As a recent graduate from Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology with a Diploma in Architectural Technology, Keegan is fulfilling the role of a Junior CAD Technician.Keegan’s first involvement with the DCA office was while still at high school, doing work experience. That,…
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St. John’s Church
St John’s Church was destroyed by fire nearly three years ago. DCA’s design for the new church builds on the character of the parishioners and incorporates core values: The identity of the building is not created by the symbols that are applied to it, rather by the functions, and most importantly, by the people that…
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Awards on the global stage
The recently held Global Architecture & Design Awards 2019 (GADA) saw fierce competition with over 2000 registrations from 40+ countries around the World. DCA Architects of Transformation were in prestigious company alongside the world’s best creative and influential industry professionals, winning the runner up award in the Public Building concept category. The award acknowledges DCA’s…
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What we do
DCA Architects are finalists in the 2019 Westpac Rotorua Business Excellence Awards in the Property, Construction and Manufacturing category. To convince the judges we are savvy in all aspects of architecture and practice, we created a fun meme we thought we’d share with you.
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Cold. Damp. Sick.
That’s what the minimum building code will allow us to build. DCA have been leading the way locally with high performance housing. The DCA designed homes, Black Gables, Chemis Cabin and Gunn Cottage all feature the rigorous, voluntary adherence to Passive House principles. Although each is a distinctly different building to meet the needs of…
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LIFELONG LEARNERS
It’s one of our six core values. At the end of May, Werner Naude, Nick Chibnall-West and Nandia Lines made the trip over to Perth for the annual Learning Environments Australasia conference. This annual conference exposes us to some of the world’s leading educationalists, architects and researchers. The panel of world-leading speakers enriched us with…
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Matariki
Matariki signals the Maori New Year. It is a time of renewal and celebration in New Zealand that begins with the rising of the Matariki star cluster (the Pleiades or Seven Sisters). DCA acknowledges and celebrates Matariki as a year of milestones past and a year of new beginnings. We look forward to another year of creating…
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DCA WELCOMES NEW GRADUATE
The DCA team would like to introduce our newest member Angelina Yang. Angelina is a recent double degree graduate from Victoria University of Wellington where she completed a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) in 2016. Angelina then spent twelve months at the University of California Santa Barbara in an undergraduate…
