There were fewer building consents granted for new dwellings last year than in any year since Statistics NZ started collecting the figures in 1965.

Ports of Auckland are asking Auckland Council to let it extend its waterfront operations 250 metres into Waitemata Harbour by 2055. The Heart of the City lobby group created these illustrations showing how it could look.

New Zealand building consents issued dwindled in November as the number of approvals in the South Island almost halved from a year earlier.

Chris Barton talks to engineering experts about the lessons learned during the levelling of Christchurch's collapsed CBD and what this means for the future of building design.