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Mat Brown

Mat Brown is an architect and co-presenter of 76 Small Rooms, a podcast about architecture in Aotearoa.

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two images of a building, one a real photo showing a courtyard and a white building with glass and a low building alongside. The other showing an AI generated drawing of the same building with apartments rising above it

AI can make anyone an architect – and that’s not a good thing

A short history of permanent temporary buildings in New Zealand

grid paper background overlaid with a ripped building plan, two green monopoly houses and several road cones

The construction sector is disoriented and depleted – and the path to recovery unclear

We can’t afford another leaky homes crisis

Is the Sky Tower New Zealand’s only truly iconic building?

Murrays Bay wharf is Auckland’s best bombing spot

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We know what more housing density looks like. But what about better design?

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