Everyone wants their business to be successful and a good client base is a definite place to start. This year ADNZ are delighted to announce Ian Cumberpatch of Ian Cumberpatch Architects will be one of the key speakers at the 2014 ADNZ National Conference. An architect with one of the highest held reputations in the industry, Ian will be speaking on the importance of establishing a solid client base and how this can be achieved and maintained.

"Small, secretive, with panoramic views" - such would read a real estate advertisement for a well-conceived suburban tree house. But in responding to Christchurch's depleted cityscape, artist Julia Morison's 'Tree Houses For Swamp Dwellers' conveys an intriguing sense of possibility in a city poised between an earthquake shattered past and a paper future.

New Zealander, Professor Mark Burry, has been Executive Architect and Researcher to the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation in Barcelona since 1979. Based in Melbourne, Mark has been instrumental in the development of the project over the last 30 years thanks to collaboration with on-site colleagues and technological advances that have made overcoming the challenges of long distance easier.

Award winning architectural designer, Ian Butt, will be stomping on home ground at this year's ADNZ national conference in September in the Bay of Islands. Ian has been working with the Waitangi National Trust since the 1990's when he designed an extension to the original administration centre, so he was an obvious choice when it came to selecting key speakers for this year’s conference.