The New Zealand Institute of Architects is urging Auckland Council to stop a wharf extension it says will ruin views from the city's waterfront.

The call comes as Auckland Council relitigates its stance on port reclamation in an extraordinary meeting today.

Ports of Auckland is due to begin work in April on two 100 metre extensions which will stick out into the Waitemata Harbour on either side of the Bledisloe container wharf.

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A small gathering down at Bledisloe Wharf gather to protest a wharf extension.

Protesters gather down at Bledisloe Wharf.

Protesters gather at Bledisloe Wharf.

The protest was timed to coincide with arrival of a large cruise ship.

Opponents say they will block an iconic view of the harbour entrance from the end of Queen's Wharf, which is a public area.

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Senior leadership at Array Architects - from c-suite to practice area leaders and studio directors to project architects - have made it a priority to earn their green or black lean/six sigma belts. Achieving a belt is a by-product of Array's lean-led process, a unique approach from which each healthcare project benefits.

Anthony Caputo, of Array's design practice area leaders, is the firm's most recent belted leaders. By earning his Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from the University of Michigan, Tony joins his fellow PALs as well as several studio directors and designers who have participated in lean training and completed the requisite lean project to identify a problem which can be corrected by implementing lean thinking.

Array's approach to lean-led design focuses on sustainable business solutions for today's evolving healthcare environment. High value building solutions that support best practice medicine and care strategies are utilized in every planning and design opportunity. Every process and task is evaluated for its effectiveness as part of the overall process flow. The impact of this rigorous thought exercise has incredible results on operational efficiency, effective care delivery and bottom-line value. Each lean belt practitioner is well-versed in the methods of value stream mapping, and employs a host of other tools to rally user group input and reach consensus.

Since 1983, Array Architects has been recognized as one of the nations leaders in the design of healthcare facilities and offers a full complement of knowledge-based services including planning, architecture, interior design and advisory services from our six office locations. Our devotion to a healthcare-exclusive practice springs from our belief in the power of design to improve patient outcomes, maximize operational efficiencies, increase staff satisfaction and provide remarkable results for our clients.

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LAKEVILLE The barns were falling down. The little farmhouse was covered with asbestos siding. The views were gorgeous, but the meadow was impassably thick with brambles and high grasses.

"People were afraid," says Pilar Proffitt.

"We got very lucky," says her husband, Robert Bristow.

The two architects, who are partners in Poesis Design designing buildings, interiors and furniture could see past the challenges at the 11-acre site on Lime Rock Road, in the Lakeville section of Salisbury.

Today they live with their two daughters, 13 and 11, and son, 8, in a serenely modern and sophisticated home that is filled with natural light. The open design flows easily, unified by the pale floors in white oak and punctuated by the stylish and sometimes whimsical furnishings that are also the couple's creations.

"It's really pleasant, and it really works for our family," Bristow says. "We wake up happy every day. We had lived in a lot of low-ceiling, small old houses. The sun lights everything here."

One surprise about their inviting house is that to hold down costs, the couple found "another way to build it," Bristow explains. They approached a factory with their design and had the skeleton of their house prefabricated off-site in several modular shells.

"And then we had to work like dogs to make it the way it is," Bristow recalls.

The custom details throughout are thoughtful and practical choices. A massive double fireplace of granite curbstones from a nearby quarry separates the spacious kitchen from the living and dining room, and is cleverly designed with a slender slot at the side that holds about a week's worth of firewood.

"It's something to root us, ground us," Bristow says of the fireplace. "This is the ruin that will stand after the house blows away."

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Chartiers Valley School District Superintendent Brian White was, by a unanimous vote, directed by the board at Tuesdays meeting to engage in preliminary discussion with district architects for renovations to the high school auditorium.

Roughly speaking we guesstimate it would be $3.5 million, for the upgrades, Mr. White told the board.

The district has been working with Downtown-based IKM, Inc and Oregon and Washington-based BLRB Architects to renovate its 486,000-square-foot high school/middle school complex. The scope of the design work thus far has included some attention to the 1,200-seat auditorium - mainly connecting a heating, ventilating and air conditioning system and sprinkler systems.

With its vote the board authorized the districts administration to begin a preliminary design discussion with the architects for further renovations to the auditorium like upgrades to the lighting, sound, stage, seating and backstage area.

We would like them (the architects) to engage the performing arts community for input, Mr. White said.

Greg McCracken of BLRB, who was in attendance at the meeting, said during preliminary design phases on the high school/middle school project there was a discussion with teachers from the music and arts department of the desire for auditorium renovations.

Mr. White said if the board decides to pursue the renovation to the auditorium the district could, when the high school/middle school project goes out to bid, put it in the bid specs as an add-alternate.

If the districts move forward with the auditorium renovation, it would incur a 5 percent design fee from its architects. If the estimate remains at $3.5 million that would mean a $175,000 cost to the district.

Deana Carpenter, freelance writer: suburbanliving@post-gazette.com.

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