Best Place to Celebrate: Magnum
The latest addition to Ponsonby Road’s restaurant strip has a most generous serving of design nous.
iPad
Proving to be both a dab hand at modular architecture and catchy names, Andre Hodgskin is launching the new Kiwi bach.
Wander Lust
Rebelling against minimalism and techno-reliance, Dutch designer Marcel Wanders is busy creating his own weird and wanderful world.
Like the supermodels before them, the ‘star designers’ of the 1990s were thought to be a thing of the past; vestiges of the design world’s roaring heyday when the aspiration of every upwardly mobile 30-something was to fill every centimetre of their life with paraphernalia by one of the ‘big names’. In those days, chic dinner parties were grown-up show-and-tell time as names like Castiglioni, Magistretti, Munari, Sapper and, of course, the ubiquitous Starck spilled like oversized salmon roe from a...
Cementing History
It’s taken more than 30 years, but this monolithic house in Auckland has been honoured with New Zealand’s highest architectural award.
“This is the house that Jack built,” runs the old nursery rhyme. But rarely, if ever, is an architectural story so simple. In this case, that of a monumental home in concrete first built in 1973, this is the house that Ron and Phil and Jeff and Tim, and many, many others over the house’s 34-year history, built. Through at least four sets of owners and as many serious alterations, renovations and restorations, the...