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The flagship VetFocus (now Vetora) is situated on the fringe of Te Awamutu's main street in the small rural Waikato Township. Conceptually the building works to become a familiar extension of farm buildings and infrastructure so visually apparent and abundant in the area utilising a palette of milled, sustainably grown rusticated timber weatherboard, black colorsteel cladding and raw finish precast concrete. Materials are simple, functional and true to their word, much like that of rural kiwi values.

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Dickson Lonergan Architects (DLA) was founded in Whanganui in 1974 with founding partners Bruce Dickson (retired) and the late Barry Lonergan. Once fully established in the Whanganui region, DLA then started to expand the business, first into Wellington in 1999 with Barry and Glenn starting up the capital city office. Then came the Timaru Office headed up by Murray Ackroyd in 2005 and the further expansion to Hamilton in 2010 with Martin Swann. 

The opportunity then arose to open an Auckland office in 2015 with Alana moving north from Wellington. Now with 5 offices, DLA has evolved from its humble beginnings into a nationwide practice, with a passionate team of architects and designers who specialise in all fields from commercial, residential, industrial, interiors, education and public projects through to DLA’s main stay of large scale dairy and food processing architecture.