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Hot House: Hidden Pavilion

Hot House: Hidden Pavilion

Projects | Although the materials and abstract forms of this 70m2 meditation space on the outskirts of Madrid seem entirely unnatural in its location, a closer look reveals a delicate and deeper symbiosis. To be...
The waka huia

The waka huia

Projects | Federico Monsalve: The Waitangi Museum is a very significant building in terms of history and the emotions surrounding the Treaty of Waitangi events; were there a lot of design ideas being thrown around...
Review: The Room at Objectspace

Review: The Room at Objectspace

News | Residential interior design inhabits two main spheres: the private family space and its more-public consumer arena made up of showrooms, glossy magazines, social media posts and trade fair installatio...
Through the vines: Zespri HQ

Through the vines: Zespri HQ

Projects | From above, this 8000m2 building is a simple composition: a large, two-storeyed rectangular form bisected vertically (north to south) at ground level by a smaller, thinner version of the first. On the...
Retail 2.0

Retail 2.0

Projects | Appliance brand Fisher & Paykel has recently opened two ‘Experience Centres’, one in New York and one in Sydney. Both were designed by Fearon Hay Architects. The showrooms do not sell anything, they a...
Telling the story: Greg Farrell

Telling the story: Greg Farrell

People | Federico Monsalve (FM): A lot of your experience has been in Asia but you studied here in New Zealand. Greg Farrell (GF): Yes, I grew up here and started my design career here in commercial design. Sinc...
Hotels in flux: Part one

Hotels in flux: Part one

Practice | [Editor’s note: This series about the future of the hotel industry was produced for print publication and mostly before the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, a lot of the statistical figures and trend forec...
Together but apart

Together but apart

Projects | The brief was complicated to say the least: to co-locate Christchurch’s Shirley Boys’ High School and Avonside Girls’ High School; two single-sex schools with almost 150 years of history between them,...
Elegant Samba

Elegant Samba

Projects | This 400m² apartment in the heart of Sao Paulo, Brazil, has some impressive Modernist credentials. The building in which it is located was designed in the 1950s by Franz Heep, a German architect who h...
Casa Cavia

Casa Cavia

Projects | Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan haven in South America. Open-door immigration policies and an outward-looking middle and upper class have meant a significant, two-way flow of ideas and information from...
Q&A: Luke Douglas

Q&A: Luke Douglas

People | What are you currently reading? / I’m a third of the way through David Foster Wallace’s tome, Infinite Jest. He does things with language that make your head spin, even if it’s sometimes a little ha...
Personal space: Erica Austin

Personal space: Erica Austin

People | Where I am working: / Awesome HQ, a co-working space in central Christchurch operated by the Ministry of Awesome. It’s a place to connect with a community of like-minded people who are passionate abou...
Rural accents

Rural accents

Projects | “Timbers on acid” is how Rachel O’Malley and Mike Petre describe the restaurant and brewery they designed in Matakana. And that, it is. Its interior includes, among several others: Old Man Pine, Birch...
Suspended time: the Inca rail

Suspended time: the Inca rail

Projects | Sure, there is an element of emotional detachment to train travel, a certain understanding that the scenery beyond the carriage windows and the experiences they might represent can never be ‘possessed...
Shangri-La Hotel

Shangri-La Hotel

Practice | Interior: How did Confucius influence your design? / Ed Ng: The concepts of harmony, hierarchy and order are deeply rooted in Confucian principles, and we used these elements in our design. We also ...
Light Show 2014

Light Show 2014

News | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki will be presenting Light Show starting 11 October. The exhibition, which debuted at the Hayward Gallery (London) in 2013, is starting its world tour in New Zealand an...
Hot House: Tehran House

Hot House: Tehran House

Projects | This is the foldable pocketknife, the swing bridge, the Rubik’s Cube of Iranian residential architecture. On paper, the concept is fairly simple: once Tehran’s bitter winter hits, the box rooms on the...
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