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NZIA revisited

NZIA revisited

Review | Federico Monsalve: Any high point in the conference? / Aaron Paterson: Sam Jacob. He looks at architecture a bit differently from the sterile modernism that you see. FM: It felt almost like a literary t...
Designer interview: Daniel Lewis

Designer interview: Daniel Lewis

People | Federico Monsalve: First of all, congratulations on your win. Where were you when you found out Burntwood had been selected for the Stirling Prize? / Daniel Lewis: I was lucky enough to be in London a...
Kinetic architecture

Kinetic architecture

People | Federico Monsalve (FM) Your thermo-bimetal work seems to fall somewhere in between architecture, material science, biology, and kinetic art… is there one particular discipline you feel most interested i...
After taste

After taste

People | Federico Monsalve: Tell us a bit about your background. How did you get started in design? / Joanna Merwood-Salisbury: My grandfather was a contractor and my dad worked in the concrete industry, so I wa...
Hot House: Haus Gables

Hot House: Haus Gables

Projects | Architecturally designed houses are often built to play a public role that goes beyond the simple boundaries of practicality. They are constructed as monuments – sometimes subtle, sometimes clumsily p...
Roman mythology

Roman mythology

Projects | There are two round leather chairs in the living room of this Roman apartment that, although basic in construction, possess a strangely alluring persona. They are nothing more than a steel circumferen...
Q&A: Sayes Jackson

Q&A: Sayes Jackson

People | What are you having for lunch? / Nick: One of the best coffees in Auckland to accompany the infamous pork and fennel sammy – both from Ceremony in Grafton: pork and fennel sausage, over-easy egg, ched...
The legend of El Dorado

The legend of El Dorado

Projects | El Dorado Beach in Puerto Rico is an idyllic area with an impressive pedigree.  / In the ’30s, it was little-known and accessible only to a handful of adventurers (Amelia Earhart spent the night here ...
Pueblo Ribera

Pueblo Ribera

Projects | This modest, Californian beachside apartment was designed in the 1920s by Austrian-born architect Rudolph Schindler. The architect was a strong figure in American modernism although his work was somew...
Hot House: Solar Egg

Hot House: Solar Egg

Projects | Each of the panels on this tiny sauna in the northernmost town in Sweden reflects snippets of the picturesque, Arctic landscape that surrounds it. With periods of the year when the sun never sets and ...
Paris Match

Paris Match

Projects | The affable Stephanie Coutas designed this four-storeyed, 400m² Parisian townhouse for herself. “I am a very difficult client,” she confesses. “When I work [for someone else], I am efficient and the p...
Hot House

Hot House

Projects | In many ways, this alpine cabin on the northern side of Vancouver Island is the antithesis of what husband-and-wife architects Susan and David Scott are used to crafting. “We were working on buildings...
Hot House: Koro House

Hot House: Koro House

Projects | The Japanese word koro roughly translates to time. And it is its passing that creates the most striking feature of this abode, known as the Koro House. Hanging from the ceiling above the lounge and ex...
Devonport Library

Devonport Library

Projects | Auckland’s picturesque suburb of Devonport is composed of immaculately maintained Edwardian and Victorian villas. Its public library (in theory, there has been one on this site since 1887) is nestled ...
Paris mon amour

Paris mon amour

Projects | Paris-based Rodolphe Parente, the designer of this 350m² apartment in – possibly – the most photographed area in the world (it is sandwiched between the Seine river, the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Tr...
Architect profile: AJ Sutton

Architect profile: AJ Sutton

People | Federico Monsalve: Have you had any overseas design experience? / AJ Sutton: No, but I travelled and worked in the Middle East, Europe and Australia prior to commencing my studies. I became excited ab...
Rooms with soul

Rooms with soul

Projects | The interior of the newly opened Sofitel Wellington (a 14-storey, $50 million, 130-room hotel) is an exercise in cohesion through eclecticism. The overall design drivers here are: nature (given the in...
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