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Finalist in 2026 Design & Architecture Awards

Vaulted lounge space in our Tara Iti home.

We are excited to announce that our beauitful Tara Iti home that we designed for a wonderful family has been named as a finalist in the BEST Awards. Link here

Wednesday 09.30.26
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2026 Danish Design Awards Finalist - New campus in Bangkok

While based in Denmark, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to work closely with educational design and play expert Rosan Bosch and her studio on their ambitious project as the Project Architect for this new campus located in Bangkok that is a finalists in the Danish Design Awards.

The 1,000-seat auditorium is part of the Garden of Shadow and Light. It is an important venue for cultural events, public exhibitions, concerts, drama, dance, art, and other performances.

The Garden of Wonder supports the primary years, stimulating curiosity, exploration, and collaboration through flexible learning spaces and open central areas for group activities and informal learning

CLICK HERE for the Design Awards

Thursday 09.10.26
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Finalist in 2024 Design & Architecture Awards

We are excited to be named as finalists in this year’s BEST Awards!

Wednesday 08.21.24
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Winner - 2023 HOME Interior of the Year Awards

Atelier Aitken Architects HOME Interior of the Year 2023 Award Winner

Our clients receiving our awards!

We were very excited and grateful to receive this recognition for our projects, Mt Eden Home and Breamtail Treehouse, at the 2023 HOME Interior of the Year Awards.

Friday 10.06.23
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HOME Interior of the Year Awards - Judges citation

We received the judges citation for our Mt Eden Home’s kitchen - they always manage to put things so elegantly into words, so thank you.

Thursday 09.28.23
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HOME Interior of the Year Finalists announced

We are very excited to be named as finalists in two categories at the HOME Interior of the Year Awards for our urban home, Mt Eden Home, and our rural farmhouse, Breamtail Treehouse. Click image to vote for your favourite home.

Wednesday 08.23.23
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Six by six - published in this month's HOME Magazine

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Really excited to see this project published in this month’s HOME magazine. Words by Clare Chapman and photographs by Simon Wilson.

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Friday 02.03.23
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Winner - DTU Circular Societies Innovation Challenge

We are stoked that our project, Materialis Danica, led by Jo Aitken and Letizia Alianelli, won the 2020 DTU Circular Societies Innovation Challenge - both within our entered category, Wildcard Challenge, and Overall. DTU Skylab is Denmark’s main innovation lab and the competition was run virtually between 25 countries over August and September 2020.

We are stoked that our project, Materialis Danica, led by Jo Aitken and Letizia Alianelli, won the 2020 DTU Circular Societies Innovation Challenge - both within our entered category, Wildcard Challenge, and Overall. DTU Skylab is Denmark’s main innovation lab and the competition was run virtually between 25 countries over August and September 2020.

Sunday 09.27.20
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Silver at the New Zealand BEST of Design Awards

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We are happy to announce that our ‘Contemporary’ Boat shed’ project won a silver at the New Zealand BEST Awards.

Monday 10.28.19
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World Architecture Awards Finalists 2019

We are very excited to announce that we have been named as finalists in the 2019 World Architecture Awards, to be held in December in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

We are very excited to announce that we have been named as finalists in the 2019 World Architecture Awards, to be held in December in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Sunday 07.21.19
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Best Awards Finalists Announced!

Best Design Awards Finalist

Very excited to be named as finalists in the Best Design Awards for 2019!!!

Friday 07.12.19
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Biotech Architecture documentary goes live

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Watch director, Jo Aitken, with leading Biotech scientist, Dr Siouxsie Wiles, talk about the future of Biotechnology in Architecture and experiment with bio-luminescent bacteria as a new mode of lighting.

CLICK LINK TO WATCH DOCUMENTARY on TVNZ ON DEMAND
Tuesday 05.28.19
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Shortlisted for NZIA Architecture Awards

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We are excited to be shortlisted for the 2019 NZIA Architecture Awards!

Wednesday 03.13.19
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2018 New Zealand Interior Awards

Photograph by Matt Hunt

Photograph by Matt Hunt

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Our architecture design team for our Biotech and AI project ‘Imagining a new Future’ celebrating at the 2018 New Zealand Interior Awards.

Saturday 09.01.18
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Jo Aitken shares her experience as the new ambassador for Microsoft Surface

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Our studio has been using the Microsoft Surface suite of products since 2017. Director of the studio, Jo Aitken, shares a little bit more about her experience with the technological advances of this suite of products and our work processes.

Friday 05.18.18
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We are excited to be finalists in the New Zealand Interior Awards!

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Our team, Alice O'Brien-Gortner, Madumal Gunaratna, Sophie Daly and Daniel Christev worked with the University of Auckland's Biotech scientist Dr Svetland Boycheva and the talented guys, Isaac and Stephen from Monmouth Glass Studios on this project.

Wednesday 05.09.18
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Media coverage in Elle Magazine and Architecture NZ

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Thanks to Elle Magazine and Architecture NZ for writing about our Project:  Intelligent Futures: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology and Architecture.

Saturday 02.17.18
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Surface Studio - beautiful new tools to start off a beautiful new year!

As ambassadors for the new Surface Studio, we are very excited to start off our new year with a wonderful new suite of tools, the Surface Studio and Surface Book 2, which is making starting back at work like a dream!

As ambassadors for the new Surface Studio, we are very excited to start off our new year with a wonderful new suite of tools, the Surface Studio and Surface Book 2, which is making starting back at work like a dream!

Monday 01.22.18
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SXSW 2018, here we come!

We are excited to be heading to next year's South by South West (SXSW) in Austin, Texas to present our Urban Library Learning Park project, which looks at a potential new public building typology and the re-use of inner city car parking buildings, o…

We are excited to be heading to next year's South by South West (SXSW) in Austin, Texas to present our Urban Library Learning Park project, which looks at a potential new public building typology and the re-use of inner city car parking buildings, once they are no longer needed with the onset of driverless cars.

Monday 12.18.17
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Interview on the Wallace Chapman Show and New Zealand Herald

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Click here to link through to the article in the New Zealand Herald from Wednesday 6th September or click here to link through to our interview on the Wallace Chapman Show from Sunday 3rd September.

Wednesday 09.06.17
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