Michael Barrett

Contributor Profile

Michael Barrett is a design and architecture journalist; and former editor of Interior. He was a judge at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore in 2013; and judge and convenor of the Interior Awards in 2012 and 2013.

Occupation: Architecture and design journalist

Location: Auckland

Houses revisited: Mission statement

Projects | First published in 2008, Paul Clarke has designed a view house in Auckland’s eastern suburbs that preserves a little of the past.

Houses Revisited: Sympathetic intervention

Projects | We revisit a project from the March 2009 issue of Houses where Michael Fisher takes an Auckland art deco house through the rehab process.

Houses Revisited: High society

Projects | From the Houses archives: a penthouse apartment by Cook Sargission & Pirie provides clear evidence of the rise of Freemans Bay.

Manukau Tertiary Centre

Projects | Michael Barrett unravels this ambitious new hub in South Auckland.

West 8

Practice | ArchitectureNow talks with Maarten Buijs of Rotterdam-based West 8.

The devil is in the details

Projects | An Auckland residence combines the old and the new in the most original and thoughtful of ways.

Auckland Airport landscapes

Projects | Views from both airborne and land-based approaches to Auckland Airport now centre on abstract earth forms.

Roderick Fry

People | We catch up with the Paris-based designer about the stripping back of his Système Pi and Moaroom.

Te Atatu garden

Projects | An ‘adze path’ and ‘midden wall’ complete a garden rich in narrative, craft and planting.

Fantails, Silverdale

Projects | Collingridge And Smith Architects’ childcare centre breaks typical form with its sawtoothed roof and triangular-shaped plan.

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