Join the Dots
A new extension to Wellington’s City Gallery is celebrated with an opening exhibition of pop art superstar Yayoi Kusama.
Renovation projects often cause something akin to a game of tug of war. On one side of the rope is the team that believes that an architectural addition should appear to sit obediently alongside the existing building, and, on the other team, those who believe that additions should be distinct from the original. In the game concerning the new additions to Wellington’s City Gallery, those vying...
Hill Slide
A modern box is the result of a global mode of working: American clients, Australian architect, New Zealand site.
This house falls into that new sort of globalised architecture: American owners; Australian architect; New Zealand site. This cultural cross-over could bring to mind all sorts of inappropriate Ranchero adobes or Cape Cod mansions plonked incongruously in the Bay of Islands, yet this house does nothing of the sort. Neither has the architecture taken a listless when-in-Rome… attitude and tried to emulate some indefinable New Zealand architectural aesthetic. The house succeeds...
Embracing the Elements
Andrew Kerr is converted after reviewing the latest range of cabriolets on the market this summer.
I know I’m in the minority but, for me, the best cabriolet weather is not when the sun is shining. I prefer to unfurl the canvas – or unhinge the hardtop – before dawn, with the sun poised to warm the horizon. This is when the sound of the engine, the shifting of cogs and the tyres on the tarmac have few other noises to compete with.
Convertibles do add another dimension to driving but they also pose major engineering...
A Well-Groomed Fox
A new Wellington-based design duo make a name for themselves at the IMM Cologne design fair.
Partners in love and design, Emma Fox Derwin and Nigel Groom are a well-suited pair. Both born and bred Wellingtonians, they bonded over their coursework in industrial design, before eventually moving in together. Their apartment helped inspire a design piece that took them to the other side of the world in January, as finalists in the D3 Talent competition at the 2010 IMM Cologne design fair.
After graduating from his design degree in 2006, Groom...