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Home with Hoppen

Home with Hoppen

Projects | This year, Kelly Hoppen MBE is celebrating 40 years as a designer. Astoundingly, she had her first interior design client at the age of 16, renovating a kitchen for a family friend. This was a learnin...
Quietly modern: Mahurangi House

Quietly modern: Mahurangi House

Projects | A well-frequented holiday home for a couple close to retirement, this property is accessed from the ridge of the hill on what is known as Scott’s Peninsula in Mahurangi East, north of Auckland. The ho...
Fortified luxury

Fortified luxury

Projects | Located on the edge of Lake Taupō and with views across the revered, Jack Nicklaus-designed Kinloch Club golf course to the central plateau, Kinloch Lodge is highly exposed to wind, which funnels up t...
The living kitchen

The living kitchen

Review | Braver, more personalised spaces are restoring our love of the kitchen, reflecting what the kitchen has always been – the heart of the home. Here, your character should be apparent in the design, bold...
Bare bones: Hallensteins

Bare bones: Hallensteins

Projects | Designer Mark Gascoigne has fond memories of the historic Lewis Eady building on Auckland’s Queen Street. As teenagers on school holidays, he and his bandmates would go there to study sheet music in t...
Vogel's Revival

Vogel’s Revival

Projects | Dunedin City Council has big plans. Two years ago, the revamped Dunedin Centre opened, combining three historic civic buildings into a world-class convention centre. The Octagon and Queens Gardens are...
Sparking a fire

Sparking a fire

Projects | I recently heard the story of a mother telling her young daughter that mobile phones had not been around when she was a child. The daughter replied incredulously: how did you google? Indeed, mobile ph...
Beauty in bulk

Beauty in bulk

Practice | In terms of aesthetics, the bulk bin store does not have a sexy reputation. With plastic bins, metal scoops and a smattering of spilled flour on the linoleum floor, this type of utilitarian space used...
The third place: Tūranga

The third place: Tūranga

Projects | If you have set foot in a library in the last 20 years, you may have noticed a change. Gone are the shushing librarians, the rows of dusty shelves and the stagnant atmosphere; conversation is now welc...
Walking the talk

Walking the talk

Projects | Fonterra is a company wholly owned by hard-working shareholders, most of whom head out to work each morning in gumboots. So, when creating a new headquarters in downtown Auckland, a considered approac...
Homegrown

Homegrown

Review | Recently, a movement in Dunedin has been trying to prevent the manufacture of Pineapple Lumps, Buzz Bars and Jaffas from being moved to an Australian factory. Mondelez, the company that owns Cadbury, ...
The light revolution

The light revolution

Review | There are many design elements that affect the way people experience spaces within the home. Lighting isn’t just about its illuminating function: thoughtfully considered lighting can personalise a spa...