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Lean on Moddex’s innovative modular barrier solutions

Products | Moddex’s innovative approach to handrails, balustrades, and walkways, keeps your project moving from design to installation.

A Long Bay farewell

Projects | Partner content: A stunning entertainer’s home in Auckland’s Long Bay was the last hurrah for a boutique design and build company prior to seeking new adventures in the South Island.

Barrier design basics: A specifier’s guide

Products | Taking on the task of designing handrails? Industry leaders Moddex, discusses barrier design basics and essential factors for effective, compliant solutions.

Creating a ‘recycling unit’ from ‘recycled waste’

Practice | Warren and Mahoney has teamed up with Special Studio to design and deliver 70 bespoke 3D-printed e-waste deposit bins for One NZ (formerly Vodafone).

Calibre. A new design standard.

News | Gerard Roofs launches contemporary, streamlined steel roof panel system, Calibre.

A study of light and dark

Projects | This seaside home in Christchurch’s Sumner draws on both site and context for its exterior cladding, alluding to the ubiquitous driftwood at the nearby water’s edge.

Wood Melbourne’s new Kiwi collab

News | Wood Melbourne’s characteristic circular and square faucet handles get a jolt of colour courtesy of Dunedin-native, New York-based designer and editor Georgina McWhirter.

Seaweed plasterboard set to grow

News | Andy (Minhong) Park, an international student at The University of Canterbury has developed an eco-friendly wall panel product out of seaweed.

A smart future

Review | Altus looks at Smartfit®, an easy-to-install, ready-to-fit cassette window system.

Futuristic form

Review | Partner content: Dave Sweatman, associate at Space Studio, reviews the Formica AR Touch.

Designer profile: Kris Ericksen

People | Designer Kris Ericksen, the creative mind behind modular design system Plato, discusses the experimental interlocking product.

Partner News: Lord of the Rings costume wraps LA tower

Partner News: LOTR costume wraps LA tower

News | A ribbed facade created with Kaynemaile plastic mesh used in the film trilogy features on a new tower by practice Johnson Fain.

Specifier Guide 2015

Practice | A useful, informative guide on products and services relevant to design and architecture professionals.

Force of nature

People | Kirsten Matthew talks to homewares and accessories designer Emma Hayes about her evocative, luxurious designs.

Growing a house

News | Green insulation that literally grows on trees.

Maison et Objet, September 2013

Calendar | Trade Show, Paris, 6 Sep 2013 to 10 Sep 2013
This Paris-based design fair presents the latest trends and new releases in interior design.