Shigeru Ban, architect of Christchurch’s Transitional (‘Cardboard’) Cathedral, has won the Pritzker Prize. Ban is a world-class architect and expert in disaster-zone building. The new Cathedral is his largest post-disaster structure to date.“The Prit

Iconic National Women’s Hospital spent nearly a half-century at the cutting edge of the women’s health and reproduction in New Zealand – natural childbirth and rooming-in; artificial insemination and in vitro fertilisation; sterilisation and abortion

Birds of New Zealand: A Photographic Guide, by leading ornithologist Paul Scofield and avian photographer Brent Stephenson, is the definitive introduction to the identification and behaviour of our country’s extraordinary and popular bird life.‘New Z

Since first European contact, interracial Māori and Pākehā unions have run the gamut of politics, societal attitudes and religion, but ground-breaking research from historian Dr Angela Wanhalla has shown that for the most part, love held its own.Her

A new poetry prize, the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize, has been announced at the launch of Sarah Broom’s posthumous collection of poems Gleam (AUP).The prize has been founded by Sarah’s husband Michael Gleissner and friends in memory of the poet and liter