Urbanism 19 March, 2009
Vodafone USB Modem Giveaway
With the Vodafone USB Modem, you can access internet from wherever you have coverage and also look stylish doing so. Similar to a traditional USB memory stick in size, the modem slots directly into your USB port and it includes USB drive storage. With built-in Vodafone Mobile Connect software, you don’t even need to bother with installation programmes, simply plug in and play. Valued at $249, Urbis has one of these to give away to the person who tells us best reason for why they need a Vodafone USB Modem. Email your reason by 28 March to peta.nichols@agm.co.nz to win.
>>Visit www.vodafone.co.nz
The Tap of the Future
Starchitect, Zaha Hadid has been dabbling in product design for a while now and now she had designed “the tap of the future”. Inspired by the movement of water, the designs are a formal expression of the continuous flow of liquid – merging tap spout, body and handle in a seamless ergonomic shape. In the world-first three-way tap, filtered drinking water is delivered through a dedicated waterway isolated from hot and cold water streams. The result is a tap that is as much a bespoke work of art as it is a kitchen or bathroom appliance.
>>Visit www.triflowconcepts.com
Letting Dwell
The food safe is a bridging point between the interior and exterior of a house, with permeable barriers to keep bugs and rodents out, but keep cool air in. Why do we care? Letting Dwell, at The New Dowse gallery, Wellington, is an exhibition by furniture designer, Tim Larkin in collaboration with photograher, Peter McColl, and writer, Luke Feast, exploring the concept of the food safe. In his food-safe inspired cabinets, Larkin creates evocative spaces through contrasting layers of organic, hand-crafted and machine-worked materials. Alongside this, McColl uses still and moving cameras to explore duration, inhabitation and desertation, which echoes Larkin’s work, and Feast questions the limits of writing philosophically about ‘making’. On until 10 May, Larkin will lead a free floor talk through Letting Dwell on Sunday 22 March, from 11am–12 noon.
>>Visit www.newdowse.org.nz
Workroom
Merging custom designed furniture, contemporary interior design and one-off covetable pieces to adorn your home, new boutique design store, Workroom, has sustainability at its core using a high percentage of recycled woods and materials. Workroom is owned and operated by the father-daughter team of Doug and Rebecca Snelling, combining Rebecca’s fine arts practice, which focuses on environments and spatial dynamics, and Doug’s Kiwi ‘No. 8 Wire’ mentality. Situated in the hub of Clevedon (30 minute drive from Auckland) with an idyllic backdrop of vineyards and farmland, if you are looking for a place to escape to for a weekend wander, Workroom is it.
>>Visit www.workroom.net.nz
No. 2
Marking the 10th year anniversary since she performed No.2, Madeliene Sami is returning to the stage with this quintessential piece of NZ theatre. Mixing kava with karaoke, writer Toa Fraser pushes culture forward, celebrating the raucous joy, the shifting dynamics and the chaos that only an extended family knows. On from the 1st–11th April at The Pumphouse, Takapuna. Urbis has a double pass to give away to the opening performance on Wednesday 1st of April. Email peta.nichols@agm.co.nz by 26 March with the writers name to be in to win.
>>For more information and to book tickets, visit www.pumphouse.co.nz
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