Dark Matter
The result of a slim budget and a challenging site, this intimate home in the Waitakere bush certainly embraces its dark side.
Perched among the treetops of the Waitakeres like a giant, dark bird, this Sue Hillery and Andrew Greenslade house leans over the hillside on long, steel stilt-like legs and points its glass beak towards Rangitoto. Completed two years ago, the house is now largely concealed by the native bush that has regenerated around it, nestling back into the branches of the nikau, rewarewa and ponga, just as its designers planned.
The house was Hillery and Greenslade’s debut project. “At that...
Big Green Apple
Everything from floating mushrooms to the Dark Lord of the Sith was evoked at this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair.
The Nature of Things
On the eve of his departure for the Creative New Zealand Berlin Residency, artist Mladen Bizumic contemplates the way humans attempt to rationalise nature.
Hot Green Chile
A house in the foothills of the Chilean Andes shows what is possible when a low budget is combined with an open mind.
Set in the wilds of the Chilean Andes with the permanent murmur of the Mapocho River in the background, this simple, contemporary house makes a bold statement. Only half-an-hour’s drive from the Chilean capital Santiago, a young professional couple and their three children have made a sloping 1,200-metre plot of land the site of their dream home.
“Since we got married, we had been living on the other side of...