Category / Team
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Land of the long pathway
Our very own, Toni Brown, is about to embark on an epic mission in Aotearoa’s wilderness. Traversing our beautiful country, on foot, from top to tail. Get to know more about Toni’s mission and what sparked her interest in Te Araroa… Kia ora Toni, Can you tell us a bit about the epic adventure…
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Just Another Fabulous Architect
We’ve arrived as JAFAs (Just Another Fabulous Architect) in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland! A continuation and expansion of our commitment to deliver more transformational and revitalised places – positively contributing to local communities within Aotearoa. Empowering the regions to thrive. Leading the Auckland studio is Registered Architect, Chris Buch. He will be diving into servicing DCA’s…
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Rocky: 1, 2, *PUNCH*!
The DCA studio’s ping pong table gets used on the daily for, exercise, stress relief, a break from screens and competitive rivalry – there is also a fair bit of smack talk thrown into the mix (all in good gest!). Recently we held our 2024 annual DCA staff tournament based at our Rotorua studio. Unfortunately…
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A Foundation Built On Lego
With a childhood engulfed in creating masterpieces from lego and a Dad as an architect, it was clear from the start that Nick Chibnall-West had the makings to offer something special to our built environment in the future. We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Nick to company director, alongside founder Darryl Church as…
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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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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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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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Quick, call the doctor…
No, not that kind of doctor. Our Hawkes Bay Regional Manager, Marie Fleming, has a long-standing involvement with sustainable practices in architecture and construction: During her study at Massey University she completed her PhD, with the thesis being that of sustainability, health and productivity in the work environment. So really, we should be calling her…
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I am Hope
One of our team, Keegan Mitchell, was all set to complete an Ironman 70.3 in March (a 1.9km swim, 90km bike and a 21.1km run). He was tackling this challenge in support of fundraising for I Am Hope – the charity founded by Mike King that provides free counselling sessions to youth, addressing NZ’s youth…
