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  • Urban development

    Enabling well-functioning and thriving communities through best practice urban design and development.

  • Design Review Panel

    Earlier this year, our Urban Design Panels team asked for feedback on improving the effectiveness of our Design Review process by surveying a range of our builder partners. at Council. How do I book a design review meeting? Our DRP sessions are held weekly on Tuesday mornings. Bookings can be made with the Urban Design Panel Team

  • Design guidelines

    The design guides help to ensure that all design and building projects meet our standards, and reflect our design principles. and best practice guidance from New Zealand and overseas. Masterplanning for Universal Design [PDF, 3.4 MB] Tāone Ora: Urban Design Guidelines These urban

  • Building climate resilient homes and communities

    We recognise the importance of building homes and communities that are resilient to our changing climate. Innovative urban design, integrated nature-based approaches, and significant infrastructure upgrades are just some of the ways we are increasing the resilience

  • Density and amenity go hand in hand

    Sue Evans, urban designer for our flagship Community Lane development in Avondale, talks about the design elements that are helping turn the medium-density development into a community. . It is the deliberate result of good urban design and planning. Density and amenity need to go hand in hand. Back to the beginning To help ensure we create

  • Public housing design wins national NZIA awards

    Two multi-award winning Kāinga Ora developments have been recognised for their best practice design by the Te Kahui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architecture (NZIA). area. “The one to two storey High and White development provides great urban design outcomes in a way that is in keeping with the existing low-rise homes in a

  • Urban development large-scale projects

    Kāinga Ora is enabling a mix of new social and market homes to be delivered across our large-scale projects in Auckland and eastern Porirua. To achieve this, Kāinga Ora partners with developers, councils, iwi, and government agencies. development recognises that places, cities, and towns aren’t just built things. Good urban design must embrace the past, celebrate the culture of the people that

  • New beginnings at Mahora, Hastings

    We celebrated work starting on 40 new homes as the first development designed in collaboration with Hastings District Council, as part of the Hastings place-based approach. development has gained the benefit of Kāinga Ora and Council urban design experts working closely together, integrating local knowledge and expertise. Key

  • New Porirua homes for Christmas

    Porirua families will be in new homes before Christmas with the opening on 14 December of 29 new state homes at Kāinga Ora’s Castor Crescent development in Cannon’s Creek. this build illustrates how with good urban design we can deliver more homes on Kāinga Ora’s sites,’’ says Will. "The site previously housed 27 ageing and

  • Tenants ‘feel blessed’ to be living in new Avondale development

    A two and a half-year project to create the country’s largest social housing development is complete, with the final 30 homes in the 236-home Avondale development now ready for tenants. been designed with older people in mind but there are also some apartments for small families. It is high density living so getting the urban design right in the