Jack Manning (architect)
{{Short description|New Zealand architect (1928–2021)}}
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{{Infobox architect
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| birth_name = John Wilfred Manning
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|10|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|10|08|1928|10|12|df=y}}
| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| alma_mater = University of Auckland
| awards = 2011 Gold Medal of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
| practice = Thorpe, Cutter, Pickmere & Douglas
Manning Mitchell
Manning and Associates
Group Architects
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John Wilfred Manning (12 October 1928 – 8 October 2021) was a New Zealand architect from Auckland. He is well known for a wide variety of designs including houses (particularly his own house at Stanley Bay,Erroll J Haarhoff, pp. 97 and 234, Cathcart House (Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Supreme Award 2006[https://www.nzia.co.nz/awards/new-zealand-architecture-medal/2006-supreme-awards/2006-supreme-award-cathcart-house New Zealand Institute of Architects, Cathcart House by Manning and Associates, 2006 Supreme Award] (Retrieved 16 February 2017)), and large commercial buildings. He was a fellow of the NZIA and was the recipient of its highest honour, the Gold Medal, in 2011.[https://www.nzia.co.nz/awards/nzia-fellows list of fellows of New Zealand Architects] (retrieved 30 May 2018){{Cite web|last=Architects (www.nzia.co.nz)|first=NZ Institute of|title=2011 Gold Medal: Jack Manning|url=https://www.nzia.co.nz/awards/gold-medal/2011-gold-medal-jack-manning|access-date=10 October 2021|website=NZ Institute of Architects (www.nzia.co.nz)}}
Early life
Manning was born on 12 October 1928.{{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Ddeaths |title=Death search: registration number 2021/28880 |website=Births, deaths & marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |access-date=15 October 2021}} He grew up in Devonport and Takapuna, and was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland.[https://www.nzia.co.nz/explore/news/2011/jack-manning-is-the-latest-recipient-of-nzia-gold-medal "Jack Manning is the latest recipient of NZIA Gold Medal", NZIA website, 17 June 2011] (Retrieved 14 October 2021)
Projects
Manning's many projects include three which are particularly prominent.
=AMP Building, Auckland=
Manning designed one of the first Ludwig Mies van der Rohe style skyscrapers built in New Zealand,Erroll J Haarhoff, pp. 56 and 231. the AMP Building (1962 – Thorpe, Cutter, Pickmere & Douglas) on the corner of Queen and Victoria Streets, Auckland. Revolutionary features, for its time, include structure based on a concrete frame, sheathed with a curtain wall consisting of aluminium frames clad with stainless steel, and glazed with units of heat-absorbing glass and green opaque spandrels. The ground floor columns are clad with black ebony granite.Peter Shaw, pp. 169 and 170.Julia Gatley, p. 118.
=Majestic Centre, Wellington=
The Majestic Centre (1989–1991), a large commercial complex is located close to, and visible from, Wellington's Civic Square. The Majestic Tower rises from Boulcott Street and is very prominent, especially at night when its horizontally spread fan of metal rods tipped with powerful light bulbs is illuminated. Its three-story podium, forming a street frontage to Willis Street, is split at midpoint by an open six-storied gallery linked to the base of the tower. The street frontage incorporates five distinct buildings: the Edwardian façade of Preston Meats; a newly inserted three-storeyed building of no particular quality; the massive central entry topped with a metal and glass canopy; and a flat granite surface glazed above, which finally slopes away to Dr Henry Pollen's House designed by William Turnbull whose style is exuberantly French Empire but built in wood. This great house is located on the corner site, moved down from further up Boulcott Street. On Willis St, granite colonnades, ended before Turnbull's house and leading to shops behind, providing pedestrian shelter along the frontage. The colonnades were subsequently built in.Peter Shaw, pp. 216–217
=University of Auckland School of Music=
The School of Music (1980) (designed with David Mitchell) represents a departure from the Brutalist norm of that period,Erroll J Haarhoff, p. 56. although in a completely different post-modernist style.Peter Shaw, p. 184. The building won the NZIA supreme national award in 1986, and in 2013 received an enduring architecture award from the NZIA.{{cite web |url=https://www.mitchellstoutdodd.co.nz/uoaschoolofmusic |title=University of Auckland School of Music |date= |website= |publisher=Mitchell Stout Dodd |accessdate=26 April 2018 |archive-date=27 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427184022/https://www.mitchellstoutdodd.co.nz/uoaschoolofmusic |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.nzia.co.nz/awards/national/award-detail/3265 |title=School of Music |year=2013 |website= |publisher=NZIA |accessdate=26 April 2018}}
=Other projects=
- Auckland Central Library
- Auckland College of Education, Epsom, Auckland
- Cathcart House
- Manning House
Later life
Manning died on 8 October 2021, aged 92 years.{{cite news |url=https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=john-wilfred-manning-jack&pid=200380359 |title=John Manning death notice |date=14 October 2021 |work=New Zealand Herald |access-date=14 October 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/cemeteries/Pages/RecordDetails.aspx?recordId=BA321C8C90A8A0D15B862EFB4199B319 |title=Record for John Wilfred Manning |publisher=Auckland Council |access-date=29 October 2021}}
Notes
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References
- Julia Gatley (ed), Long Live the Modern: New Zealand’s New Architecture 1904–1984, Auckland University Press, Auckland.
- Erroll J Haarhoff, Guide to the Architecture of Central Auckland, Balasoglou Books, 2006.
- Peter Shaw, A History of New Zealand Architecture, Hodder Moa Beckett, Auckland, 2003.
External links
- [https://www.nzia.co.nz/awards/gold-medal/2011-gold-medal-jack-manning New Zealand Institute of Architects 2011 Gold Medal: Jack Manning] (retrieved 16 February 2017)
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