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Out of the box

Out of the box

People | The struggle is real for creative types trying to balance work and family life while still finding time for ‘passion projects’. There can be a real sense of isolation toiling at home after hours, as w...
Spendvision

Spendvision

Projects | On entering the Auckland headquarters of transaction management company Spendvision, you might be mistaken for thinking you were looking at the offices of an energetic advertising or media company, no...
Autumn architecture reading

Autumn architecture reading

Review | In Search of Bawa: Master Architect of Sri Lanka By David Robson, photography by Sebastian Posingis. Published by Talisman Publishing. Geoffery Bawa was an enigmatic Sri Lankan architect whose work i...
Bookshelf: August edition

Bookshelf: August edition

Review | Hidden Paris: Discovering and Exploring Parisian Interiors  By Caroline Clifton-Mogg in association with Côté Paris; published by Jacqui Small. From its ironwork staircases and balconies to its turret...
The room: Nocenco Café

The room: Nocenco Café

Projects | Located in the heart of Vinh, a city in North Vietnam, Nocenco Café by Vo Trong Nghia Architects is the result of a quest to create something new and iconic in a town populated by post-war, colonial-s...
Houses revisited: Kingswood house

Houses revisited: Kingswood house

Projects | A 100-year-old brick building once stood here, overlooking Lyttelton Harbour, but, like many of the older buildings that lined the small town’s streets, it did not stand up to the catastrophic events ...
Light+Building fair: Day 1 report

Light+Building fair: Day 1 report

News | I had been warned to wear good walking shoes to the Light+Building fair at the Messe Frankfurt in Germany, and they weren’t kidding. You could spend a whole day in one hall alone, and there are eleven...
Think sleek

Think sleek

Projects | Rather than being created for a specific mode of work, the office is highly flexible, with the capability to cater to multiple work environments and host social events. Created by Think & Shift for Ne...
Jack in the Box

Jack in the Box

Review | Camille Khouri: What defines a pop-up? / Lizzi Hines: There are three types we deal with. Mobile pop-up covers our tuk-tuks and food trucks but also extends to events. The likes of Taste Auckland is alm...
Design people: Miranda Brown

Design people: Miranda Brown

People | What is your background? Did you study art? / I went to Otago University and studied textile science. My textile passion carried through to fashion and homewares. In fashion, I was known for dying usi...
Talking fabrics in Frankfurt

Talking fabrics in Frankfurt

Practice | Camille Khouri: Will this be your first time at Heimtextil? / Stephanie Moffitt: I have been twice before but not for quite some time; the Mokum brand sits in the high end of the market and, in the last...
Light+Building fair: Day 2 report

Light+Building fair: Day 2 report

News | I was smarter today. I checked everything but my camera and wallet into the coat check at the Press Centre and travelled light. This made me slightly more adventurous, even dipping into the glitzy hal...
Light+Building fair: Day 3 report

Light+Building fair: Day 3 report

News | My first stop today was to the Italian Lighting pavilion. I was both in need of coffee and in need of the ambience offered in the literature about this hall. As promised, walking in was like taking a ...
The Good Form

The Good Form

Projects | Artist and designer Gidon Bing’s minimalist aesthetic has been put to work in the interior refit of Good Form, a design and gallery space owned by Dan and Emma Eagle. The space is housed within the sa...
Houses revisited: Coastal house

Houses revisited: Coastal house

Projects | Rather like a nest tucked into some branches at the top of a tall tree, this house sits quietly in the hills of its coastal Waikato site. Designed for a pair of musicians as a refuge from both the pub...
Sense of theatre: Lillius

Sense of theatre: Lillius

Projects | Although in the midst of a slow gentrification, the intersection of Symonds Street and Khyber Pass Road, along with the surrounding Newton Gully, still has a feeling of authentic urban culture. This h...
Legal matters

Legal matters

Review | Many in the legal fraternity in New Zealand have been busy revitalising their workplace interiors. From Dunedin to Auckland, the past few years have seen a spate of refits and new builds geared to acc...
Rhythm and vines

Rhythm and vines

Review | The sculptural installation Under/standing looms large and strong over Brancott Estate’s grapevines and at the same time, seems right at home there, with the intersecting lines of rust orange Corten s...
A chat with Jack Trolove

A chat with Jack Trolove

People | Camille: Is painting your full-time job? / Jack: I do some contract work around suicide prevention, mental health and within the LGBTI community. It sometimes feels like my painting is connected to this...
Viewfinder: Marina Mathews

Viewfinder: Marina Mathews

Projects | Tell us about the five projects you've chosen as your favourites. Marina Mathews (MM): My first is Anna-Marie Chin’s Lake Hayes Cottage. Being based in Queenstown, I photograph a lot of luxury holiday...
The age of the city

The age of the city

Review | The future of the workplace is bright – according to the various speakers at the CoreNet Symposium yesterday – just so long as we can all get our heads around a few new (and some not so new) concepts,...
Rebuilding better: Sheppard & Rout

Rebuilding better: Sheppard & Rout

Projects | “In the Chinese language, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters, one representing danger and the other, opportunity.” This is according to John F Kennedy in a 1959 speech to US military – an...
In house: Space Studio

In house: Space Studio

Projects | It’s Friday morning in the upper Parnell Road offices of Space Studio and there’s a friendly hum of activity in the air. The company, which specialises in hotel design, has a good number of projects o...
Art and the outdoors

Art and the outdoors

Projects | Sitting some 20 metres from the coastline at Cass Bay, this home is what real estate agents call “absolute beachfront”, with spectacular views across to sparkling Lyttelton Harbour, Ōtamahua/Quail Isl...
Co-working buzz

Co-working buzz

News | Due to open by the end of this year at Smales Farm on Auckland’s North Shore, the B:Hive is an 11,000m2, 5-level premium office building that has been created with flexibility and co-working practices...
In the zone

In the zone

Review | Houses: What is it about the Fisher & Paykel range that works so well in this kitchen? / Davinia Sutton: The brief was to create a large, modern kitchen, which would accommodate the needs of a typical...
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