Pip Cheshire

In favour of spiders

People | Pip Cheshire considers the new and profound challenges presented by recent climate change and how best to deal with them.

Country manor come to town

Projects | Pip Cheshire navigates the striking arrangement of formal and informal space at RTA Studio’s Zed House, located in the affluent suburb of Fendalton, in Ōtautahi Christchurch.

An obvious and sound investment

People | Pip Cheshire believes dry, secure and affordable housing should be part of our national infrastructure, and that the crux of the housing issue lies in inherited social constructs.

A rumination on place

People | Pip Cheshire considers the duelling of emotions and uncertainties in the practice of architecture, and ruminates on the importance of cultivating imagination in practice.

Do not go gentle…

People | Pip Cheshire believes the architecture profession can sometimes be complicit in the suppression of dreams.

Plan and section

People | Pip Cheshire finds the world of creative endeavour is one sometimes beset with angst, false starts, revisions and abandoned variations.

The size of things

People | Pip Cheshire on how to navigate the betterment of public spaces “our new living rooms” with measuring tape in hand and an observant eye.

Brick Bay Folly finalists revealed

News | Folly judge Pip Cheshire considers the proposals by this year’s finalists and finds that each of them reflects the moral and cultural climate of our era.

Time to dream no small dreams

Practice | Pip Cheshire says it is time to dream big if we are to realise a bold future for housing our whānau in Aotearoa.

Opinion: Safe neighbourhoods

Practice | Pip Cheshire says it’s time we set about creating safe, supportive, resilient and regenerative neighbourhoods.

Time to dream no small dreams

Practice | Pip Cheshire says it is time to dream big if we are to realise a bold future for housing our whānau in Aotearoa.

Opinion: Safe neighbourhoods

Practice | Pip Cheshire says it’s time we set about creating safe, supportive, resilient and regenerative neighbourhoods.

Opinion: Off with my head!

Practice | Pip Cheshire recommends an industry-wide road map to survival and resilience.

Fine-tuning a few elements

Practice | Pip Cheshire traverses influences in his design practice, from the shoebox to Donald Judd to Don Clarke to the raw and the cooked.