tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30479160022261918522024-03-14T08:01:12.755+13:00HOME New ZealandThe blog of HOME New Zealand magazine.HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comBlogger330125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-40547367200046109742014-08-04T09:42:00.000+12:002014-08-04T09:42:00.502+12:00Introducing our new issue and brand-new website.We like you blogspot, we really do ... but it's time to introduce you to our beautiful new website at <a href="http://www.homemagazine.co.nz/">www.homemagazine.co.nz</a>. Check it out now for behind-the-scenes shots of the creation of our latest Global Villages issue (on newsstands now!) with guest editor Karen Walker. We'll be updating the new site daily from now on, but this will be our last post on this site. See you on the other side!<br />
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<br />HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-77891275954076340782014-06-12T16:24:00.001+12:002014-06-12T16:24:26.169+12:00Nat Cheshire talks about the design of the beautiful 'Parison' pendant<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
We've just made this short web film featuring Nat Cheshire and Emily Priest of Cheshire Architects talking about the design of the gorgeous 'Parison' pendant for Resident, the winner of our furniture and lighting Design Awards 2014. In it, they talk about the design process, the joys of being a designer in New Zealand, and Cheshire Architects' ambitions to "redesign entire cities" and "build whole worlds". </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A big thank you to our Design Awards sponsors, Fisher & Paykel, for their support of great New Zealand design. And congratulations again to Nat and the Cheshire Architects team! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/EAoNFdiBZxU" width="640"></iframe> </span>HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-51639049159035164362014-06-06T15:39:00.000+12:002014-06-06T15:42:43.471+12:00Tickets are on sale now for our inaugural Kitchen Design Day with Blum<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We're delighted to invite you to our inaugural Kitchen Design Day, which we're holding in conjunction with our friends at Blum, the specialists in top-quality kitchen hardware.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Modelled on our successful Style Safaris, our Kitchen Design Day is an all-day event that incorporates showroom visits, the latest news in kitchen appliances, new trends from Europe, and information-rich design briefings from expert kitchen designers (including international kitchen design award-winner Morgan Cronin, one of whose designs is shown in the image below). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tickets for the day are $75 (the price includes transport between destinations and food and drinks), and numbers are limited to 50. The event is being held in Auckland and is hosted by HOME editor Jeremy Hansen. It'll be a perfect day full of inspiration for anyone planning a new kitchen, so book your tickets now at the link <a href="http://www.eventopia.co/event/Kitchen-Design-Day/248238">here</a>. </span>HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-43304951102192458902014-06-04T18:44:00.000+12:002014-06-04T18:44:04.549+12:00Presenting NZ's best new furniture in our annual Design Awards (with our new partners Fisher & Paykel). <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every year we're delighted to showcase New Zealand's best new furniture and lighting in our annual Design Awards - and this year, we're delighted to present the finalists and winner to you in conjunction with our new Design Awards partners, Fisher & Paykel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">First, meet the designers in our competition (who you can also see in this issue of the magazine). They are (from left) Nat Cheshire of Cheshire Architects; Nathan Goldsworthy of Goldsworthy; Tim Webber of Tim Webber Design; Simon James of Resident; Nigel Groom and Emma Fox-Derwin of Well-Groomed Fox; and Timothy John of Timothy John Design. They were photographed by Toaki Okano at Auckland's White Studios on May 7.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And now to the objects in our competition. The winner of the 2014 Design Awards is Cheshire Architects for the 'Parison' pendant for Resident (below), an elegant mix of the hand-made and the digital (it's made when a bubble of layered molten glass is mouth-blown into a computer-cut mould of water-soaked cherrywood). The pendant has already debuted at the Milan furniture fair as part of the Resident collection, and we're delighted to feature it here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And here are our other finalists, in no particular order: first, the 'Pi' table (below) by Paris-based designer Roderick Fry, an ingeniously simple trestle leg system that flat-packs for shipping but holds a range of table tops with perfect stability. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Nathan Goldsworthy's beautiful 'Ballet' chairs and 'Ballerina' tables (below) were produced as part of a collaboration with Backhouse Interiors and Designworks. The chairs and table are crafted from laminated ash, and the chairs are upholstered in wool. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Emma Fox-Derwin and Nigel Groom of Wellington's Well-Groomed Fox created the handsome 'Notch' pendant lights (below), which have a raw, matte depth thanks to their colour being part of the ceramic rather than a glaze applied later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Designer Timothy John created the 'Handmade' range (below) - which includes the 'Bowler' light, 'Splay' table and 'Nordic' chair - for Paper Plane, the design store he co-owns in Mount Maunganui. All the designs are hand-crafted by Nigel Cotterill. The chair and light are made from solid American ash, and the table is available in ash or laminate versions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Auckland-based Tim Webber created the 'Duffle' ottoman, a sturdy piece of furniture that references the classic bag. It's upholstered in wool with a simple rope drawstring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Last but certainly not least is Simon James' 'Pick Up Sticks' chair for Resident, with a solid oak frame and detachable, wool-upholstered component, allowing retailers to stock the frames and the wool seats to be made to order. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A huge thank you from us to all the designers who entered, and congratulations to the team at Cheshire Architects and the other finalists. We're also delighted at the support Fisher & Paykel are giving to New Zealand design by supporting our awards programme. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our shoot was photographed by Toaki Okano, and styled by Kendyl Middelbeek and Samantha Totty. You can read more details about the entrants in our special winter issue of the magazine. </span><br />
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<br />HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-82042130797672684622014-06-04T16:46:00.000+12:002014-06-05T09:43:47.648+12:00New Zealand at the Venice Architecture Biennale<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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The Venice Architecture Biennale begins later this week, and includes New Zealand's first-ever exhibition at this prestigious event (an initiative led by the New Zealand Institute of Architects). In our February issue, we spoke to David Mitchell of Mitchell and Stout Architects, the creative director of the New Zealand exhibition, about what they're planning for the show.<br />
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<b>DAVID MITCHELL, CREATIVE DIRECTOR</b> [Dutch architect] Rem
Koolhaas is the overall creative director this year, and he’s chosen the theme
‘Fundamentals’, which addresses the evolution of national architectures in the
last century. He’s saying that modernity is taking over everything – that
there’s an increasing homogeneity in architecture around the world. He’s
probably right in general, but we think there’s a Pacific gene in New Zealand
architecture that has got more distinctive over the last 100 years. It shows in
light post-and-beam and panel structures, often with big roofs. We cross over
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We’ll have our own room in a palazzo to work within. One of
our key pieces is going to be a brand new pataka which is being carved at this
moment. It stands on a pole and is the first thing visitors to the exhibition
will meet – a Pacific structure if ever there was. Then we’ll have a
whare-like, or house-like tent structure within the space, the walls of which
will show images of New Zealand buildings that back up our thesis about how
deeply lightweight structures inform New Zealand architecture. These images
could include wooden houses of the 1950s, the Waitomo Caves Visitor Centre,
holiday homes by Herbst Architects, Wellington’s Futuna Chapel, Christchurch’s
Cardboard Cathedral – a Pacific structure by an architect of sufficient
prominence to get noticed around the world – and the Auckland Art Gallery,
which won World Building of the Year. It couldn’t be a better moment to
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It’s a quote from Kipling, written about Auckland. We like
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<i>The Venice Architecture Biennale runs June 7 to November 23http://venice.nzia.co.nz/ You can read more about the New Zealand exhibition and see video of David Mitchell presenting the exhibition concept at <a href="http://venice.nzia.co.nz/">this link</a>.</i></div>
HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-65595306748687725852014-06-03T16:55:00.000+12:002014-06-03T16:55:00.601+12:00Our new issue has winter goodness aplenty<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Our winter issue is on newsstands RIGHT NOW and we're quite excited about all that it contains. First, here's the cover: a photograph by Simon Devitt of an amazing small home by Pattersons on the northern end of Banks Peninsula. Beautiful!</div>
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Here's a photograph by Simon Devitt of the home itself (below) in its spectacular setting:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also in this issue, we visit a couple of remarkable New Zealand expats. Music manager Debbi Gibbs lives in Manhattan, but spends weekends on the New Jersey lakeside in this prefabricated home by Resolution: 4 Architecture (the home was mostly built in a factory and trucked to the site in four pieces). The photograph below, featuring Debbi and her son Blake, is by Emily Andrews. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Emily Andrews also visited London for this issue, where she photographed the flat of Christchurch-born interior designer Christopher Hall (below) who divides his time between the English capital and his homes in Istanbul (where he also designs furniture, including all the pieces in this photo) and Riyadh, where has has some major interior design commissions under way. He's a fascinating and very successful designer, and we're delighted to feature him in this issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also in this issue! A delightful home (below) by Michael O'Sullivan (who also designed our 2011 Home of the Year on Kare Kare Beach) on Waiheke Island - it's warm, woody and economical, and well worth a closer look. The photo is by Simon Devitt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And in Christchurch, we visit a vintage delight, a wonderful 1968 home (below) by Warren & Mahoney that is now owned (and adored) by Matthew Arnold of the design firm Sons & Co and his wife Kate. It was photographed by Samuel Hartnett. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And let's not forget that this is our annual Design Awards issue, featuring the work of New Zealand's best furniture designers (brought to you this year by our new awards partner, Fisher & Paykel). Here's a group shot of them by Toaki Okano (below), and you can check out their fantastic work in the mag. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our Design Awards finalists are (from left): Nat Cheshire of Cheshire Architects, Nathan Goldsworthy, Tim Webber, Simon James, Nigel Groom and Emma Fox-Derwin of Wellington's Well-Groomed Fox, and Timothy John. Look out for more of their designs in the magazine and in a subsequent post. In the meantime, enjoy our new issue!</span>HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-8969075716338121392014-05-09T23:16:00.000+12:002014-05-09T23:16:00.022+12:00More great picks from the Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival<div class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I'm constantly caught between being a maximalist and hating clutter, so
watching people fold their lives into the petite homes in </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px;"><b>TINY: A Story About Living Small </b>(trailer above) promises to be</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;"> fascinating.
It seems particularly poignant at the moment, give our recent HOME of the Year
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt;">"My favourite episodes of Mad Men are when
Don Draper spends a debauched weekend in Palm Springs - I re-watched the
episode twice just to screenshot all the home and interiors. It’s the closest
I’ve gotten to visiting the place, so the film </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Desert Utopia: Midcentury Architecture in Palm Springs</b> (trailer above) is going to nicely stoke my obsesson. </span></span><br />
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anything built on the constantly moving surface of the ocean (like the small
cities constructed inside jet fighter carriers), so I've put this film (trailer above) on my list too."</span></div>
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HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-33265909665159930292014-05-08T22:37:00.001+12:002014-05-08T22:46:20.679+12:00Top picks for the Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As many of you hopefully already know, the Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival is starting today at Rialto Cinemas Newmarket in Auckland (until May 21), before opening at The Embassy in Wellington (May 29 to June 11) and at Rialto Cinemas Dunedin (June 12-22).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can download a PDF of the programme <a href="http://www.resene.co.nz/pdf/Film_Festival_Program.pdf">here</a>. And you can book tickets <a href="http://www.rialto.co.nz/filmfestivals/resene">here</a>. (Wellingtonians: please note you should use the link to the Event Cinemas website).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the next few days we'll tell you our picks from the festival lineup - all the films are tantalising, but we've got to be in the office some of the time, so we'll tell you which movies are at the top of our lists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"I saw </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If You Build It </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(that's the trailer above) a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">t the festival opening night, and although it wouldn't quite have made my original list, it was fantastic and really uplifting and I think everyone should see it. In it, two designers take over the workshop programme at a high school in a downtrodden country in North Carolina, and lead their students on a fantastic journey that has a heart-warming and lasting effect on the entire town. Lots of people in the audience were crying, as it's impossible not to be moved by this film. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I can never see too much of the work of the great modernist architect Richard Neutra, and this documentary, <b>The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat</b>, (trailer above) which focuses one on of his lesser-known homes, looks irresistible. It's just 48 minutes long, so it screens with <b>Desert Utopia: Midcentury Architecture in Palm Springs </b>- a double-bill that's sure to satiate even the most ravenous modernists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"I'm also excited about seeing the documentary about the great Japanese architect </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tadao Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">because Ando's works are so fantastic, and any insight into how he creates them has got to be a good thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"And while it isn't about architecture, the idea of a fashion documentary featuring Givenchy, Dior, Ungaro, Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Cardin along with Andy Warhol, Christina Onassis, Liza Minnelli, Josephine Baker and Rudolf Nureyev all getting together for an epic fashion show at Versailles just sounds too amazing to be true. The film's called <b>Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution</b> and pits the French against American designers including Halston, Oscar de la Renta, Anne Klein and Bill Blass. It looks like the kind of thing that anyone interested in fashion should see." </span>
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HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-42599059727895663052014-05-01T10:29:00.002+12:002014-05-01T10:29:16.876+12:00Modern furniture fans have a treat in store<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Modern furniture fans have some treats coming up, with big auctions planned in May at Auckland auction houses Webb's and Art + Object. </div>
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Webb's are collaborating for the fifth time with modern furniture specialists Mr. Bigglesworthy, who not only source the best mid-century New Zealand furniture, but import great discoveries from the UK and US as well. </div>
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The auction is being held at Webb's on May 15 at 6.30pm, with a preview event on May 8 at 6.30pm. </div>
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Here are some of the highlights from the upcoming auction:</div>
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The 'Goldola' sofa (above) was designed by Adrian Pearsall for Craft Associates. </div>
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And this 'Mr' chair and ottoman (above) is by George Mulhauser for Plycraft. You can see the full catalogue of treasures <a href="http://www.webbs.co.nz/auction/modern-design-4">here</a>. </div>
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<br />HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-44756585692893035242014-04-10T16:34:00.000+12:002014-04-10T16:34:38.539+12:00Design Awards 2014 Call for Entries <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Designers! Each year our Design Awards programme features the best New Zealand furniture and homeware - and now's your chance to enter to ensure your design reaches the country's most engaged readers.</span> <br />
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All you need to do to enter is send up to five images (from a variety of angles) of the furniture or object(s) you've designed, along with a 250-word statement about the project's aims and its designers. You can email your entries to designawards@bauermedia.co.nz or courier them to HOME magazine, Bauer Media, Shed 12, CityWorks Depot, 77 Cook Street, Auckland 1010. </div>
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We'll choose a shortlist of finalist from the entries and have them photographed for inclusion in our June/July issue, on newsstands June 2. </div>
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We look forward to showcasing more of the work of New Zealand's best designers. </div>
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<br />HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-63038264593716802772014-04-04T10:49:00.000+13:002014-04-04T12:00:08.257+13:00Amanda Levete on the Home of the Year<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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Given all the attention our Home of the Year is getting, we thought many of you might be interested in hearing some of the thinking behind the jury's decisions. </div>
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The Home of the Year jury was made up of HOME editor Jeremy Hansen, Gary Lawson of four-time Home of the Year winners Stevens Lawson Architects, and Stirling Prize-winning London architect Amanda Levete. </div>
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<b>JEREMY HANSEN</b> Let’s start by talking about the winning project: Eyrie, the
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<b>AMANDA LEVETE</b> That project was very finely tuned, such a poetic response to its
site. It was a complete merging of idea and form. And there’s a narrative
behind it that’s as poetic as its realisation. The idea that an architect would
negotiate with planners to allow a smaller and much more modest footprint on
the site is a fantastic inversion of expectations: it captures the mood of the
world right now by demonstrating a greater respect for modesty and a reining in
of consumerism. It shows how much you can do with so little and still hold such resonance. </div>
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The landscape it’s situated in was not the most beautiful or
most dramatic of the sites we saw – far from it – but it had a sensibility of
its own. You could sense this through the success of the dialogue between the
client and the architect. It felt like there was a complete synergy between
architect and client, and that is quite rare. It feels like the relationship
with the client pushed the architect to go beyond his repertoire and explore
ideas and an attitude that perhaps hadn’t been expressed in his work before.
You need that input from a client, you need that challenge – and you need that
energy and inspiration to make your work better. It’s those kind of
relationships and moments that push an architect to develop and become great. </div>
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The cabins were beautifully detailed in a very simple way
but every move, every line held the idea of the house. The tiny brass recessed
kitchen area, which was like a little jewel in this simple black container,
lifted it from being prosaic to something exceptional. The cabinets around the
kitchen, which used a crude black-painted form-board, had chamfered edges that
revealed the colour of the ply behind it, a tiny shadow line that, because the
space was black, had a lustre almost like there was a light behind it. And what
was so revealing about that space was that it was a black interior and black
exterior but it didn’t feel oppressive. You were drawn into the space by the
light and felt uplifted and serene and at one with the world and with nature. </div>
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<b>JEREMY HANSEN</b> What made the other homes worthy of inclusion? Let’s go from north to south,
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<b>AMANDA LEVETE</b> This house expressed very clearly how the forces of nature can drive design,
with a clever layering of openings between indoor and outdoor spaces. There was
a very strong relationship between a deep gabion wall and the passage between
the bedrooms and the main spaces of the house, an outside but protected area
that reinforced it as a beach house, so whatever the weather and time of year,
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<b>JEREMY HANSEN</b> On Waiheke Island we visited a home by Wendy Shacklock. What did you enjoy
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<b>AMANDA LEVETE </b>This was an incredibly difficult site and a huge amount of thought had gone
into exploring ways in which you could liberate it. That’s been achieved in a
way that appears effortless, thanks to much of the site engineering being
invisible – but it was far from straightforward. There was also a delicacy
about the use of materials and the contrast between the solidity and brutality
of the concrete wall and the openness of the elevations looking down at the
water. The clients wanted the house to feel like a nest, and it did feel very
protective and precarious at the same time. </div>
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<b>JEREMY HANSEN</b> How about the small house by Andrew Simpson? </div>
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<b>AMANDA LEVETE</b> This was a studio house, just 50 square metres in which every little square
foot was accounted for and exploited. There was a wonderful, huge opening up of
a view on a very difficult site. What I loved was the ambition and endeavour
that was invested into such a complicated site. That endeavour was palpable and
real – the architect built much of the interior – and it shows again how much
you can achieve with a modest budget, which is always refreshing. </div>
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<b>JEREMY HANSEN</b> On Banks Peninsula, we visited the Scrubby
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<b>AMANDA LEVETE</b> I found this house incredibly beautiful. Proportionally there was a real kind
of magic about the delicacy of these barn-like forms that just slipped one in
front of the other in a strong sectional relationship sited in a completely
spectacular bay. The plan of the house was understated and restrained, and that
restraint was very powerful when matched by such a spectacular backdrop. The
house also made beautiful use of wood, with a subtle scent of the macrocarpa
cladding inside that was just magic for me. </div>
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<b>JEREMY HANSEN</b> We saw homes on beautiful sites, but the suburban house by LO'CA in Wanaka was
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<b>AMANDA LEVETE</b> This is a house for a retired couple with a brief that was far from glamorous,
but the architects managed to lift it by creating a kind of respect for the
span of a couple’s life, and I was very touched by that. It wasn’t just the
clever planning but the way in which the clients’ lives
– their past as well as their future and the present – were mapped into the
planning; I’ve never seen that done before. It made me think how important
houses are as containers for your life and your history. Some of the houses we saw had an absence of the soul of the owners, and a house
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<b>AMANDA LEVETE</b> It’s clear that the bach is a powerful genre, and we’ve seen it interpreted
differently in extraordinary settings that are very particular to New Zealand.
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is an incredible and inventive use of woods, which has been inspiring to me,
and makes me want to explore that in our own work. But I worry that there’s a
kind of complacency in New Zealand’s architecture. I have seen some of the most
spectacular sites in the world on this trip and some of the most extraordinary
pieces of landscape – I don’t think I’ll ever see anything more beautiful. With
that goes a huge responsibility to respond with an ambition that matches that
drama and the beauty of the location. That responsibility is sometimes taken
too much for granted. I think architects need to remind themselves what a
privilege it is to design in a piece of nature that is unsurpassable.</div>
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Clients, too, need to have that same sense of ambition and
responsibility in selecting their architect and in their own briefs. It’s not
just about designing a house. You have to respond to the magnitude and power of
nature at its most beautiful. Houses are relatively modest in scale but
historically they have defined an architectural era, and not enough architects
here feel that sense of potential. Architecture here is quite self-referential
and it shouldn’t be, because what we’ve seen in this last week is a fantastic
abundance of talent and inventiveness and clever thinking. Architects in New
Zealand should be more ambitious in terms of their place internationally – you
have a great tradition of house design that could be defining and having an influence on the rest of
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<b>JEREMY HANSEN</b> Lastly, do you have any thoughts about awards like this in
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<b>AMANDA LEVETE</b> The Home of the Year award is important because it’s not just about applauding
excellence; it’s about marking turning points in architects’ careers. The
purpose of awards is to recognise talent and to lift the standards and advance
the debate. The cross-section of projects we’ve selected for this, the Home of
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<i>Amanda Levete travelled to New Zealand thanks to
the support of Altherm Window Systems, our Home of the Year sponsor.</i></div>
HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-52382247268613775952014-04-02T19:30:00.000+13:002014-04-02T19:30:02.258+13:00Home of the the 2014 - the winner! <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Congratulations to Nat Cheshire of Cheshire Architects, who designed Eyrie, the twin cabins on an inlet of the Kaipara Harbour that have won our 19th Home of the Year award. Here's our new cover, featuring a photograph by Jeremy Toth. </span><br />
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</span>HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-46686120021778597352014-04-02T15:03:00.000+13:002014-04-02T15:03:11.537+13:00Home of the Year 2014 - the finalists<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tonight's the night we announce our 19th annual Home of the Year award. We're delighted to present the six finalists for the award for you here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As always, the winning architects will received a $15,000 first prize, thanks to our award sponsors Altherm Window Systems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The award was judged by our Home of the Year jury - HOME editor Jeremy Hansen, Gary Lawson of Auckland's Stevens Lawson Architects, and Stirling Prize-winning London architect Amanda Levete - who visited all the shortlisted homes in early March to make their selection of the winner and finalists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The winner and all the finalists will be in our Home of the Year issue, on newsstands from Thursday April 3. And you can check back here at 7.30pm this evening to see our short web film of the winning home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here are the finalists, from north to south:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Castle Rock House (above) is a holiday home at Whangarei Heads by Herbst Architects, who designed our Home of the Year 2012 winner. The photograph is by Patrick Reynolds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eyrie by Nat Cheshire of Cheshire Architects is a pair of almost-identical cabins (above) on an inlet of the Kaipara Harbour. The photograph is by Darryl Ward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This Waiheke Island home (above) was designed by Wendy Shacklock Architects in association with Paul Clarke. The photograph is by Samuel Hartnett. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This 50-square-metre home (above) in Wellington was designed by Andrew Simpson of Wiredog Architecture for himself and his partner, Krysty Peebles. The photograph is by Paul McCredie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This farmhouse (above) on an isolated bay on Banks Peninsula was designed by Pattersons, and photographed by Simon Devitt. </span><br />
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And this home in Wanaka for a retired couple was designed by Tim Lovell and Ana O'Connell of Lovell O'Connell Architects.</div>
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We're delighted with the inventiveness and variety of this year's finalists. Remember to check out much more coverage of all these homes in our Home of the Year issue. </div>
HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-41456410691454271372014-02-28T09:30:00.000+13:002014-03-01T21:27:24.356+13:00Design Case Studies with Altherm Window Systems: Architect Dave Strachan's eco-friendly Auckland renovation<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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The fifth in our series of Design Case Studies with <a href="http://www.altherm.co.nz/">Altherm Window Systems </a>visits the Auckland family home of architect Dave Strachan (of Strachan Group Architects), a former bungalow that's had a significant renovation with increased energy efficiency one of the primary goals. The photographs are by Patrick Reynolds.</div>
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You could say that architect Dave Strachan has a 360-degree
view of the process of designing and building a home. He was a builder before
he went to architecture school and, along with his wife Colleen, he was his own
client when he designed an extensive renovation of the couple’s bungalow in the
Auckland suburb of Mount Eden (he also had to supervise his sons, who worked as
builders on the project). This led to a mild case of multiple personality disorder.
“When you’re the client, the architect and the builder, you wonder who’s
calling the shots,” Dave says. “The client wants to know how much it is, the
builder wants to know if you can do it easier, and the architect is reaching
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dave Strachan's family home in Auckland is a bungalow that's had a significant, environmentally senstive renovation. </span></i></td></tr>
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Of course, performing these roles simultaneously saved the
couple a lot of money. Their original bungalow was 180 square metres, but now
the extension is complete, Dave and Colleen (who at the time had all four of
their children living at home) have a renovated home measuring about 300 square
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They initially explored the option of demolishing the bungalow
and starting anew. Dave estimates that if a client was to pay a builder and an
architect for an all-new home of that size (which includes a swimming pool),
they would be looking at a bill of about $900,000 (plus the pool). In this
case, Dave and Colleen completed the job for about $500,000. “I reckon we’re
about $400,000 better off because we decided to keep the old bungalow,” he
says. “And I think there’s something really nice about the embodied memory
that’s still in our building – the heart of it still beats.” Part of the
savings came from doing so much of it himself, but Dave still estimates that if
a client was to undertake a similar project, they would save about $250,000 by
keeping an old house.</div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The home's two-stage entryway features a garden <br />inside the building envelope that leads to the front door.</span></i></td></tr>
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Dave does a budget estimate for a client himself at the sketch design stage, but calls in an independent quantity surveyor to estimate the cost of a build once the design has been developed. The biggest challenge, Dave says, is marrying clients’ wish lists to their budgets – and if they don’t match, letting the clients know quite clearly at the outset of the process that what they’re asking for is not achievable. The clients then have the option of scaling down their desires, or finding the extra finance to meet the budget.<br />
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The cliché that anyone taking on a new building project
should estimate their budget then double it is, Dave says, “a horrible
thought”. He prides himself on making clients aware of the full scope of
potential costs at the outset of a project, including council and resource
consent fees, building in a contingency for landscaping, and so on. If a client
asks for something outside that scope, Dave says they need to be informed that
such a decision will have budgetary implications. It’s a process that has
worked successfully for Strachan Group Architects – a house they recently
designed in the Auckland suburb of Parnell, for example, has a developed design
budget (by a registered quantity surveyor) that is consistent with the original
project estimate. “We’ve lost jobs where people have come in with a budget and
we’ve told them it’s unrealistic, and they’ll go to someone else who tells them
what they want to hear,” he says, “but you have to be honest with people about
the process.”</div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The home's main bedroom looks onto the back lawn. The lightshade is by David Trubridge.</span></i></td></tr>
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<b>Q+A with Dave Strachan</b></div>
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<b>HOME</b> What was the hardest part about the process of renovating
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<b>Dave Strachan</b> We decided, rightly or wrongly, to live in it while we did it,
so we put up with all the dust, mess, noise, and camping and decamping as you
move around the building as various phases get completed. I remember lying in
bed during a terrible storm after we’d pulled off as much roof of the old
bungalow as we could cover with a tarpaulin and listening to the tarpaulin
flapping around in the wind and finding water coming down the Gib board inside.
With the design, I relied on the team at the office – you can get too close to
a project like this, so it’s good to have people to talk to. </div>
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<b>HOME</b> Does your background as a builder help you gauge a budget
more accurately? </div>
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<b>Dave Strachan</b> In general, you know how much everything costs. But we don’t
do budgets with guesswork – in the initial stages, we calculate them by using
the price books in our office. And we have a good feel for it and a
collaborative approach with the builders we use. </div>
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<b>HOME</b> What do you think of the old cliché that if you have a
budget for a project, you should double it to get a realistic figure? <br />
<b>Dave Strachan</b> I reckon there’s no excuse for that. The budget needs to marry reasonably well
with the clients’ wish-list at the outset. After that it’s about knowing the
budgetary consequences of the decisions the clients make, and informing them of
that. We get a quantity surveyor in at the developed design stage and we don’t
proceed with a project unless the client sees those cost estimates and says
that they’re OK. Sometimes clients’ budgets don’t really match their dreams,
and they don’t often admit that. A lot of it is about having a reasonable
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The fourth in our series of Design Case Studies visits the super low-budget Auckland home of architect Michael O'Sullivan (of <a href="http://www.bosarchitecture.co.nz/">Bull O'Sullivan Architects</a>) and Melissa Schollum, which Michael mostly built himself. It's an inspiring tale of creating architectural magic on a low budget. This series is brought to you by <a href="http://www.altherm.co.nz/">Altherm Window Systems</a>. The photographs are by Florence Noble.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Michael O'Sullivan (centre) with Melissa Schollum and some of the neighbours who<br /> helped them build their house. From left: Seti Faaofo, Rhys Hanna, Ikimau Ikimau<br /> (holding Michael and Melissa's daughter Mary), Michael, Melissa<br /> (holding son Seamus), Fred Taupa and Mary Taupa.</span></i></td></tr>
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Michael and Melissa’s
115-square-metre home in the Auckland suburb of Mangere Bridge (which was a finalist in our Home of the Year
award in 2009), cost just $152,000, but that doesn’t mean you should presume
you can get a house that cheap for yourself. The house cost so little because
the couple didn’t pay a builder – Michael did all of that himself, with the
regular help of some of the couple’s neighbours. “It’s the labour that kills
projects,” Michael says, estimating that, if they had paid for a builder and
for architects’ fees, their house would have cost over $300,000 – which is
still a pretty good deal. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Melissa in the kitchen, with its brass-clad island. <br />The plates on the mullions behind her are by Rachel Carley.</i></td></tr>
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On this project, Michael was determined to do things
differently from the start. “We didn’t have a budget,” he says. “We had $70,000
to start with, and we had decided to work with that in the first instance and
see how we went.” That amount of money, along with many hours of Michael’s
labour, got them as far as the basic timber structure being erected, and with
the roof on. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The kitchen and living areas have a cedar ceiling <br />with lights residing behind the triangular cutouts.</span></i></td></tr>
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With their funds depleted, it was time to visit the bank,
but not to request a conventional mortgage. “We went to the bank and said this
is how far we’ve got, but we didn’t know how much it was going to cost to
finish off,” Michael says. They did, however, know how much they could afford
to pay off a mortgage each week, a figure the bank used to estimate the maximum
the couple could borrow and set up what was essentially a floating overdraft.
“They were initially a bit sceptical,” Michael says, “but they’re pleased now
they’ve seen what we’ve done.”</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This view of the dining area (with a dining table by IMO) shows <br />the home's main entrance. A small deck outside is shaded by an oak tree. </i></td></tr>
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Michael and Melissa needed to remain extremely mindful of
how much money was required to finish the building within their budget, but in
a sense, the most pivotal budgetary decision – to keep the house relatively
small – had been made early on. There is only one bathroom, but a more difficult
choice was to design the house with just two bedrooms, as by the time it was
nearing completion, the couple’s third child was about to be born. So far,
however, children Seamus (4), Finbar (3) and Mary (2), as well as Michael’s son
Rem (11), who stays occasionally, like their relatively large room with its
bunk beds, and the house has been designed so the later addition of another
bedroom is possible. Michael thinks the decision not to have a third bedroom
saved between $15,000 and $20,000 in materials alone, as well as making the
building process about two months quicker because of the home’s smaller
footprint. (Since these photographs were taken, Michael has added an upstairs area with more children's bedrooms). </div>
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Savings like this meant that there was enough money for
strategic splurges in other parts of the house. The kitchen has marble-topped
benches – a luxurious addition in a low-budget house – and the bathroom is
lined entirely in vivid green marble. Admittedly, Michael managed to secure
most of these materials at bargain prices, but although they still cost more
than more basic materials would have, these additions add a textural richness
that makes the compact house feel warmer and
more generous that it might have otherwise. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Finbar and Seamus in the tub. The bathroom is entirely <br />lined in green marble, a splash of luxury in a low-budget home.</i> </td></tr>
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There are other areas where Michael wished the budget had
stretched. The bedroom ceilings are lined in basic pine ply, which Michael
feels lacks the elegance (and is a little less forgiving of his limitations as
a builder) of the cedar that the couple purchased to line the ceilings of the
living area. But these are small quibbles compared to the overall satisfaction
their completed home now offers – not only the space and shelter it provides
for the family, but the lasting relationships this collaborative project
established with the neighbours who helped Michael and Melissa out so
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Q+A with Michael O’Sullivan</span></b><br />
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<b>HOME </b>Your house cost $152,000. What would it have cost if a
client had to pay for a builder and your services as an architect? <br />
<b>Michael O'Sullivan</b> It would easily be double that if you included builders’ and architects’ fees.
It’s the labour costs that kill a project. </div>
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<b>HOME </b>If you were a client hiring an architect, what lessons would
you take from your own project? <br />
<b>Michael O'Sullivan</b> Engage a quantity surveyor at the outset. As architects, we are very respectful
of our clients’ budgets, but quantity surveyors have skills that we weren’t
taught at architecture school. </div>
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Welcome to the third in our series of Design Case Studies with <a href="http://www.altherm.co.nz/">Altherm Window Systems</a>, which we've created to help give insight into the process of designing and building a home - and staying within budget as you do so. </div>
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This week, we visit the Signal Box in Masterton by Melling Morse Architects. The home won our 2008 Home of the Year award. Since then, we're sad to report that Gerald Melling, who ran Melling Morse Architects with Allan Morse, has passed away. We hope this post serves as a reminder of Gerald's cleverness and the original, thoughtful homes he and Allan created together. The photographs are by Paul McCredie.</div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Signal Box by Melling Morse Architects, our Home of the Year in 2008, is whimsically inspired by the signal arms of the nearby railway station.</i></td></tr>
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Make no mistake: Stephanie Chilcott loves her house. “It’s really lovely – in winter, I walk in when I get home from work, and
it’s usually about five degrees warmer than it is outside, all thanks to the
sun,” she says. “I wanted a house designed for me, and that’s what I’ve got. I
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Once she had purchased her site near the Masterton railway
station, Stephanie’s next challenge was to find an architect. With an estimated
budget of just over $200,000, she found many architectural practices wouldn’t
even allow her to make an appointment to see them, as they considered her
budget unrealistic. Eventually she called architects Gerald Melling and Allan
Morse, creators of a number of successful low-budget homes. She found them
happy to take on the project. </div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the kitchen, the 'PH5' lights are by Poul Henningsen. The artwork above the sink is by Bill Hammond.</i></td></tr>
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In order to save money, Stephanie decided to manage the
project herself, hiring the builder on a labour-only basis and ordering many of
the materials and joinery. She estimates that doing this probably saved her
$50,000. Despite this, her budget blew out, requiring her to eventually spend a
total of about $350,000. </div>
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There are two options Stephanie believes she should have
considered at the beginning of the process. One would have been to employ a
quantity surveyor at the outset of the project to provide a more rigorous
estimate of how much it would cost to build Melling Morse’s design. Stephanie
says had she known how much the house would end up costing, she would probably
still have gone ahead with the build, but saved herself the stress of needing
to refinance part-way through the process. </div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The home's entry hall is a cool respite in the heat of summer. The artworks are by Gavin Chilcott.</i></td></tr>
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The other option she could have considered to keep costs
from blowing out would have been to employ a builder on a fixed-price contract
(a fixed-price contract means the builder agrees to complete the job for a
mutually agreed sum). Some architects believe fixed-price contracts are
inflexible and can create tension on a building site if unforeseen
complications arise that require the builder to spend extra time on the job –
something that is especially common in renovations, where the condition of the
original building isn’t always clear. In Stephanie’s case, she did ask two
builders to quote for fixed-price contracts, and both of them estimated a price
of about $350,000. Those estimates turned out to be accurate, but at the time,
Stephanie was convinced she could do it cheaper, so she employed a builder on a
labour-only arrangement, which means the builder charged an hourly rate for his
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the dining area, the concrete floor and insulated block walls retain solar heat.</i> </td></tr>
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Is the cost blowout an architects’ problem? Not necessarily.
Architecture schools don’t teach students how to estimate costs, so most
architects are judging a building’s budget from their own experience, or from
an estimated average square-metre cost, which can prove to be inaccurate
depending on the time required to realise an unusual design. It’s worth having
a frank discussion about your financial situation with your architect, but to
take the pressure off, a quantity surveyor or a project manager can work on
your behalf to ensure your initial estimates are accurate, and that a building
project comes in as close as possible to its original estimate. Architects will
also manage the building process for you, for a higher percentage of the costs.</div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The living room features a vintage settee by Peter Hvidt. The artwork above it is by Gavin Chilcott.</span></i></td></tr>
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The other thing Stephanie says first-timers should be aware
of is that they need to budget for costs such as GST, council fees, architects’
fees, engineer’s fees, securing a building permit, drainage fees, and so on.
Architects and tradespeople generally assume a budget figure to be net costs
(this is so their fee, a percentage of the build costs, is based only on the
net figure) – so if you tell an architect you have a budget of $200,000, he or
she will create a design up to that amount without including potential ancillary
costs unless specifically directed to do so.</div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The bedroom in the home's "Signal Arm" is a series of stepped platforms.</span></i></td></tr>
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<b>Q+A with Stephanie Chilcott</b></div>
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<b>HOME</b> What would you do differently if you were to build another
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<b>Stephanie Chilcott </b>The key thing is that I would probably pay money for a quantity surveyor
or go for a fixed-price build. My advice would also be to be quite direct with
your architect. [A budget blowout] is a gradual process that creeps up on you.
Some building costs had escalated by the time we started. I could have finished
the house more cheaply on the inside, but that would have cheapened it. You’ve
got to finish a house the way it was intended, but that must be a serious
dilemma for lots of people. </div>
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<b>HOME</b> You managed the project yourself in order to save money. Was
that challenging? </div>
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<b>Stephanie Chilcott </b>You don’t need special skills to manage a process like this,
but you do need to be able to interpret a plan to understand a little bit about
the construction process. You need a really good relationship with the builder.
I offered my builder a little bit more to manage the site – he had
sub-contractors he liked to use so he used them. It’s important to have a clear
discussion with your builder about who’s responsible for what. You don’t want
to be involved in site management, deciding when the subbies should come. You
shouldn’t spend any more time on the building site than you have to, but go
down there only when required. If you go there too much, you start making
changes and you’ll find yourself spending more money. You have the plans,
you’ve got a builder – you let them get on with it. </div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A small study is located on a landing on the way up to the bedroom.</i></td></tr>
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<b>HOME</b> Did you enjoy the process? </div>
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<b>Stephanie Chilcott </b>I found it really rewarding to
watch things come into three dimensions, to watch the house grow and change.
The driver for the house was I wanted something designed for myself, and that’s
what I’ve got – it’s been designed for me, for how I live. The proportions of
all the rooms are perfect, and that’s what you’re paying for – design skills.
The house has a valuation for more than it cost to build, and it has a value
above the dollar stuff because of its inherent qualities.</div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"It was either going to be a complete embarrassing disaster or something a bit special," said architect Gerald Melling of the home's signal arm inspiration. </span></i></td></tr>
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<i>Before his death, Gerald Melling formed a Wellington-based architectural partnership, <a href="http://melling-architects.co.nz/">Melling Architects</a>, with his son, David Melling. David still runs the practice today. Allan Morse has his own firm, <a href="http://allanmorsearchitect.co.nz/">Allan Morse Architect</a>, also based in Wellington. </i></div>
HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-79774071254397264182014-02-07T12:07:00.000+13:002014-02-24T12:29:24.930+13:00Architect Amanda Levete is coming to New Zealand<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We're delighted to announce that the Stirling Prize-winning London architect Amanda Levete will travel to New Zealand be the international member of our Home of the Year 2014 jury. She will give lectures in Auckland (on Monday March 10) and Christchurch (on Wednesday March 12) about her remarkable work. Tickets to the lectures can be purchased <a href="http://www.eventopia.co/amandalevete">here</a>. We're grateful for the support of <a href="http://www.altherm.co.nz/">Altherm Window Systems</a>, our Home of the Year sponsor, whose generosity has made Amanda's visit possible. </span><br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Amanda Levete in her London office. Photograph by Peter Guenzel.</i> </td></tr>
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HOME editor Jeremy Hansen met Levete at her office in London last June. Here's his profile of her from the current issue of the magazine: </div>
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Amanda Levete almost didn’t become an architect. Expelled
from school for sunbathing naked on the roof when she should have been at
biology class, she had no idea what she was going to do next. “I got so
embarrassed that all my friends were going to university that I did an A-level
in art and art history and a foundation year at art school,” she told Stuart
Jeffries of <i>The Guardian. </i>“That’s when architecture came across my radar, and
when it did, I realised that I work best when I’m doing something creatively,
but have a boundary to push.”</div>
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Levete (pronounced Lev-eet) has been pushing boundaries to create remarkable
buildings ever since. For 20 years she was one-half of the innovative firm
Future Systems with her then-husband, the late Jan Kaplický. Together they designed
the Media Centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground, a curvaceous pod of white aluminium
that almost bankrupted them but then won the 1999 Stirling Prize, Britain’s
most prestigious architecture award. Their subsequent design for Birmingham’s
Selfridges store, a swoop of a building covered in circular aluminium discs,
was hailed as a symbol of the city’s regeneration. Kaplicky stormed out of the
Selfridges opening because the finished structure wasn’t as pure as their
original design. Levete was more pragmatic. “I don’t devalue the power of
conceptual thinking, but for me the thrill of architecture is to see your ideas
realised – to struggle against the problems out there and overcome them,” she
told Jeffries. </div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A rendering of the EDP Foundation Cultural Centre in Lisbon, Portugal, designed by Amanda Levete Architects and currently under construction. </i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </i><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LN9oeFPFh5Y/UvQSBgFMVSI/AAAAAAAADXY/6BfF_X34c0E/s1600/Goldish+ceramic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LN9oeFPFh5Y/UvQSBgFMVSI/AAAAAAAADXY/6BfF_X34c0E/s1600/Goldish+ceramic.jpg" height="320" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A rendering of the cultural centre's exterior and its </i><br />
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Levete and Kaplicky had a son, Josef, but divorced in 2006 –
“a very public falling out,” according to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Levete. Kaplicky, who was Czech, died in
Prague in 2009 at the age of 71, just after visiting his second wife, Eliska,
and their newborn daughter in hospital. He and Levete had continued working
together after their divorce, but had agreed to separate their architectural
practice four months before his death, which is when Levete established Amanda
Levete Architects. </div>
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Anyone who wondered if she had been riding on the coattails
of Kaplický’s genius (a word Levete uses to describe him) has since been
thoroughly silenced. In 2011, Levete won an international competition to build
an extension to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. The 1,500-square-metre
gallery for temporary exhibitions will be the biggest new art space in London
since the Tate Modern; the project also involves the design of a new entry to
the building from Exhibition Road. An earlier scheme by Daniel Libeskind was
abandoned seven years earlier after encountering a storm of public option. “It
was an iconic building, but the time for iconic buildings has passed,” Levete
told <i>The Guardian</i>. Her design is currently under construction.</div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A rendering of Amanda Levete Architects' competition-winning scheme for a new entry and gallery space for London's Victoria and Albert Museum. </span></i></td></tr>
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Other major projects are nearing completion:
a waterfront cultural centre in Lisbon that reads as a dramatic bulge in the
landscape; a shimmering high-rise hotel and shopping centre in Bangkok which Levete
will attend the opening of on her way home from helping to choose our 2014 Home
of the Year. She has also designed furniture for London’s Established &
Sons and writes regularly about architecture, design and urbanism for <i>The New
Statesman </i>(you can read her articles <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/amanda_levete">here</a>). Her office, a non-descript semi-industrial building in London’s
northeast, now employs more than 50 staff, who pad around on the immaculate
space’s bright carpet in socks (the office’s no-shoe office rule means you are greeted
by an archipelago of footwear when you arrive at reception).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>This will be Levete’s first visit to New Zealand. Her
husband Ben Evans, director of the London Design Festival, will accompany her.
She has already reviewed the entries in the 2014 Home of the Year with us, and
will help choose a winner when we visit the shortlisted homes in person. </div>
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First
impressions? This year’s entrants are notable for their “modesty in scale and
materials and technology, and within that they’re searching for something quite
profound and poetic,” she says. That seems promising. </div>
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We’re looking forward to showing her the best New Zealand
homes of the past year. Please come along to Levete's Auckland and Christchurch lectures: it’s
a rare chance to hear a remarkable talent reveal more about her remarkable
work.</div>
HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-63232886635090434432014-02-07T09:30:00.000+13:002014-02-11T17:05:58.672+13:00Design Case Studies with Altherm Window Systems: Newmarket Townhouses by Scarlet Architects<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was a tale of two townhouses when architects Jane Aimer and Lindley Naismith decided to design their own homes in the Auckland suburb of Newmarket. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In this, the second of our series of Design Case Studies with <a href="http://www.altherm.co.nz/">Altherm Window Systems</a>, Aimer and Naismith talk about how the design of their homes was also a masterclass in project and budget management. The photographs are by Patrick Reynolds.</span><br />
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Aimer, her husband Paul Kelly, and their children Gina <br />and Tom are in
the left-hand townhouse, while Lindley <br />Naismith and her partner John
Balasoglou <br />occupy the right-hand home.</span></i></td></tr>
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Naismith and Aimer live next door to
each other in in twin houses they designed
themselves (with the assistance of their partner at Scarlet Architects, Mike
Dowsett). Being so deeply involved in their own building process gave them even
greater insight into their clients’ experiences, and the challenges of managing
budgets. “Nothing hones the mind more than doing it for yourself,” Naismith says. “It gives you an insight into the stress of the project and what happens
to people psychologically as they go through it. It’s a heady mix of financial
pressure, emotional pressure, time pressure and relationship pressure.” </div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The homes have shutters that filter late-afternoon westerly light and are a nod to the heritage homes in the neighbourhood. </span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From left: Mike Dowsett, Lindley Naismith and <br />Jane Aimer of Scarlet Architects.</span></i></td></tr>
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Much of
that pressure stems from the common misperception that equates a builder’s
tender with the overall budget for a house, when in the final reckoning, the
overall cost of a home can be far, far higher than that. That’s because a
builder’s tender doesn’t include the costs of all the extras needed to complete
a home: lighting, interior cabinetry, landscaping, drapes, bathroom and kitchen
fittings and fixtures … the list is long and the size of the final bill can vary
enormously. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The rear view of the homes (which are on separate titles) <br />shows Aimer's home on the right, and Naismith's on the left.<br /> The gardens are connected by two sliding doors - if either <br />couple has theirs shut, it's a signal they don't want to <br />be interrupted (although this is rarely the case). </span></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The view to the garden from the living room in Aimer's house. The artwork is by Tracey Tawhiao.</span></i></td></tr>
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In Aimer and Naismith's own project, they attempted to assess the
cost of all these extras early on in the design process, just after the
builder’s quote had arrived. They estimated a budget for each of the items over
and above the builder’s estimate, and as the building process continued they
endeavoured to make each of these items adhere as closely as possible to their
original estimates to keep the budget on track. “It’s the little increments
that can get you,” Lindley says. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rooms in each home are arranged vertically around light-filled stairwells - green in Aimer's home, and red in Naismith's.</span></i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The staircase in Naismith's home features red plexiglass.</span></i></td></tr>
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This kind of budget creep – a few extra thousand here, and a
few more there – may be the source of the old (and unfair) adage that if you’re
using an architect, you should set a budget and then expect to double it. In
the relatively recent past, it was indeed considered an architect’s job to
estimate a client’s budget. These days, the process of building has become much
more complicated, and the possible range of variations much greater. That’s why
Aimer, Naismith and Dowsett prefer to get a quantity surveyor involved in the early
stages of every project. “We always do a reality check early on,” Aimer says.
“We haven’t got a project until the client is happy with the cost of it.” </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A view of the kitchen and dining area in Naismith's home.</span></i></td></tr>
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Even then, it remains the clients’ responsibility to control
the budget and keep track of expenditure (unless they have employed a project
manager or paid the architects to manage the building process). After all,
architects have no control over whether their clients choose top-of-the-range
kitchen appliances, or lavish bathroom tiles, or other budget-blowing interior
finishes that may not have been originally specified. Says Naismith: “There’s a
huge responsibility there for clients, and some of them ignore it. Often if
things are over budget, it’s not the responsibility of the architect, because
of the fittings the client has chosen. You can have fancy tiles and wonderful
lighting, but the budget might not be estimated for that level of finish.” </div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This sectional drawing shows the way both homes are organised around their central stairwells.</span></i></td></tr>
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Ironically, when it came to their own project Jane and
Lindley ignored their own good advice of getting a quantity surveyor’s
estimate, and instead relied on their own best estimates of the non-build
costs. These estimates weren’t as accurate as a quantity surveyor would have
been. Jane and Lindley’s houses were budgeted to cost about $750,000 each.
Because Jane and her partner Paul had a little more flexibility with their
budget, they specified high-quality lighting and other fittings, and ended up
spending about $250,000 more. Lindley, however, wanted to stick more closely to
her budget, which often resulted in her and her partner John choosing cheaper
options, and spending about $120,000 more than they anticipated, all the while
resisting the pressure all renovators or new-home builders come under to finish
a job “properly”. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Another view of the exterior of the homes. The cottage on the <br />right was an </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">earlier project renovated by Naismith. </span></i></td></tr>
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<![endif]-->A little extra here and there may not seem like a big deal
in comparison to the overall amount of money being spent, but each of these
items adds up. But now their homes are complete and happily occupied, neither
Jane nor Lindley thinks they have over-capitalised, and both say they are now better
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Naismith's living room features a Skagen couch from <br />Bromhead Design and a Lammhults-designed chair from <br />Katalog. The bench is by George Nelson for Herman <br />Miller from Matisse, and the 'Tolomeo' floor lamps and <br />Arteluce table lamp are from ECC. </i></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The mezzanine study in Naismith's home overlooks the dining area.</span></i></td></tr>
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<b>Q+A </b></div>
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<b>Mike Dowsett, Lindley Naismith and Jane Aimer of Scarlet Architects</b></div>
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<b>HOME</b> How did you estimate your budget? </div>
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<b>Mike Dowsett </b>After the
builder’s estimated price came in, we set a budget based on previous jobs and
guestimated figures for additional items. </div>
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<b>Jane Aimer </b>We took a stab at trying
to identify things that weren’t part of the builder’s price. The builder’s cost
is nowhere near the full cost, so setting that budget early on was really good
for us, as we’d compare it to every sub-contractors’ quote that came in, and if
their quote was higher, then we’d discuss what we needed to do to get it down. </div>
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<b>Lindley Naismith </b>The best way to avoid budget blowouts is
to rigorously estimate the budget at an early stage.</div>
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<b>HOME</b> When things looked too expensive, how easy was it to bring
costs down? </div>
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<b>Lindley Naismith </b>One example is how we put a lot of effort into the
stairwells that form the core of our homes. We found the original quote was for
them to be built in a highly finished architectural way. In the end we chose a
more commercial-style installation and decided to live with the imperfections.
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<b>Mike Dowsett</b> Originally we had specified commercial-grade windows,
but they turned out too expensive so we used standard residential windows that
we bulked up a bit so they read as heavier sections. </div>
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<b>HOME</b> Why do you use a quantity surveyor on jobs you are designing
for clients?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Lindley Naismith </b>We really push for
it even if our clients want to rush ahead. Because we are optimistic folk we
want to please our clients, so the temptation to underestimate is huge. So
getting a quantity surveyor in involves a third party and takes the project
away from us being optimistic. </div>
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<b>Jane Aimer</b> If you want a job to meet a budget you have to look at
all the line items and make sure they meet budgets. Clients have to be rigorous
about that, with our help.</div>
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HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-56788230722280684202014-01-31T15:56:00.000+13:002014-01-31T16:52:57.605+13:00Preview: The Art Issue 2014<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our annual Art Issue is always one of our favourites, and we're especially delighted with the way this year's extravaganza has worked out. There are plenty of highlights, including New Zealand jewellery designer Jessica McCormack's remarkable London townhouse, which features in the the beautiful shot by James MacDonald that stars on our cover. </span><br />
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There's much more to see inside. HOME editor Jeremy Hansen visited Jessica in London last June, and details her stellar career - her jewellery designs have been worn by Rihanna and Madonna, and she has a list of well-heeled clients from all over the world. She's also a dab hand at creating an art-filled interior, as you'll see in our pages. </div>
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Another rising star in this issue is New Zealand artist Simon Denny, who won the prestigious Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel in 2012, and has been selected as New Zealand's representative at the Venice Art Biennale in 2015. Photographer Steffen Jagenburg visited Simon (below) at his home and studio in Berlin, and took some marvellous shots. </div>
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And there's more New Zealand artistic talent that we've tracked down offshore: our Art Issue features Fiona Connor at home in Los Angeles, a former shop in the Echo Park neighbourhood that she also uses as a studio for her sculptures (one of which is the outdoor lounge chair in this photo by Emily Andrews below). Fiona has a fascinating art practice that we're really delighted to tell you more about in this issue. </div>
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Many of you will know 'Wind Tree', the fantastic sculpture in Auckland's Silo Park (if you don't, here it is, photographed by Simon Devitt).</div>
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'Wind Tree' was not created specifically for Silo Park, but for another Auckland site in the 1970s. It spent about a decade in storage after being removed from QEII Square to make way for the Britomart redevelopment. We tracked down Michio Ihara, the remarkable artist who created it, at his home near Boston. Gemma Gracewood has written a touching story for this issue about Ihara-san's illustrious artistic career, and Emily Andrews took beautiful photographs like this one below of his home and studio. </div>
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Another highlight from this issue is the New York home of Bill Shumaker (below), a one-time New Zealander whose Brooklyn brownstone is bursting at the seams with his idiosyncratic art collection. Emily Andrews also took the photos, and writer Sam Eichblatt's story in our Art Issue details Bill's fascinating life story. </div>
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There's much more in the issue of course. It's on newsstands from Monday February 3.</div>
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Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to the first in our new
series of Design Case Studies, which will run weekly here on our blog. </div>
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The Design
Case Studies are created to give you insight into the building process of some
of the amazing homes in the magazine, so the owners can
share some of the lessons they learned with you. The series is brought to you
in association with <a href="http://www.altherm.co.nz/">Atherm Window Systems</a>. </div>
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The first Design Case Study visits
Pete Ritchie and Bronwen Kerr of Queenstown's <a href="http://www.kerrritchie.com/">Kerr Ritchie Architects </a>and talks to them
about how they allowed themselves maximum flexibility and minimum fuss with the
construction of their home at Drift Bay on Lake Wakatipu. The photographs are by Paul McCredie.</div>
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Architects often say that when they get to design their own
homes they have a duty to experiment, and Pete Ritchie and Bronwen Kerr’s home
on the shores of Lake Wakatipu is no exception. When architects are their own
clients, they also tend to leave their documentation until the last minute. For
both of these reasons, Pete and Bronwen decided to hire a builder on a labour
and materials arrangement, instead of a fixed-price contract (in which the
builder agrees to complete the work on a house for a previously agreed price).
“It seemed like a fair way to build and there was flexibility along the way,”
Pete says. “Plans don’t have to be quite as tied down, so there’s more scope to
move throughout the project. There was a certain amount of experimentation going
on, and the builder enjoyed that – although it's not always what we would
recommend to our clients, as many want more price certainty.” </div>
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This arrangement allowed for small but important changes
along the way, changes that would have involved potentially time-consuming
renegotiation of a fixed-price building contract. For example, what was
intended to be a large storage cupboard in an area at the centre of the house
was changed into a room containing a pellet boiler to heat water for the
underfloor heating system after Pete and Bronwen investigated heating options
and decided a boiler was essential. In another case, they decided not to clad
an external wall in cedar, but were able to arrange with the builder to use the
leftover timber indoors instead. This flexibility minimised the potential
stress of making big decisions a long way in advance. Instead, Pete and Bronwen
had the luxury of refining details as the building evolved.</div>
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The couple started out with the intention of designing a
“lean” house containing enough room for them and their three children, as well
as a studio to allow them to run their architecture practise from home.
Initially, they hoped to complete the house for somewhere around $2000 a square
metre, a target they’d achieved on a home they had previously designed for
themselves in Wellington.</div>
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By the time building started on their Queenstown house in
2006, prices for building and materials had increased, meaning the cost of the
new house came in closer to $2500 a square metre. Fortunately, the increase in
the value of their lakeside land in the years between their purchase of it and
the erection of their home gave them the ability to borrow more money to cover
the extra cost. </div>
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Some decisions they made along the way helped keep costs
down, but these choices were always made with the overall aesthetic of the
building in mind. Inside, they made the economical choice of strandboard panels
for doors, joinery and some walls, instead of the more expensive hoop pine they
were initially considering. Now that the strandboard is installed, it feels
perfectly in keeping with the home’s casual aesthetic. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The kitchen looks out to the courtyard. The staircase at left is <br />clad in Strandboard panels, which helped keep costs down <br />and fit the home's casual aesthetic.</i></td></tr>
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The other decision they made in order to save money was for
Pete to become the builder’s labourer. The couple had just relocated from
Wellington to Queenstown and didn’t have a great deal of local work on at that
time, so the arrangement made financial sense and also gave Pete valuable
insight into the building process (as well as making it clear that working
outside in the middle of a Queenstown winter can sometimes be a bit grim). </div>
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<tr align="left" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><td class="tr-caption"><i>One of the home's bathrooms features a sauna and a sliding door that opens to the garden. The walls feature 'Vixel' glass mosaic tiles.</i> </td></tr>
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Now, with their own home and a number of other commissions
completed, the couple say they have a good handle on budgetary matters, but
they also emphasise the role the client must play (along with a quantity
surveyor or builder) in managing their expenditure. “We’ve found that a lot of clients want to manage projects
themselves, and they call on us as required,” Pete says. “Some clients are very
hands-on and have the time and capability to get involved in aspects of the
building process, while others would rather keep more of a distance.”</div>
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<b>Q+A <br />
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<b>HOME</b> Why did you decide on a labour and materials arrangement (in which a builder is
effectively paid by the hour and for the materials used) with your builder
instead of a fixed-price contract? </div>
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<b>Pete Ritchie: </b>We had a good friend who was
the builder, and because we know the industry we could source some materials
ourselves. We were our own project managers, and to work like that you need a
builder who you trust. A labour and materials arrangement is a pretty open and
honest kind of system. We didn’t want to pay a huge premium for a fixed price,
and nor did we want the builder to make a loss on the job. So it seemed like an
appropriate way for us to work. Architects do have experience and expertise
that not everyone else has. This gives them more confidence to work this way. </div>
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<b>Pete Ritchie: </b>On the whole I enjoyed it – I also painted the
house myself and stained all the weatherboards. That saved quite a bit of
money. But in the middle of winter weeks can go by without you seeming to make
much progress, and it’s a bit grim and very cold and you have smoko around a
campfire. </div>
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<b>Pete Ritchie: </b>It gives you a good idea of where clients are coming from. We
naturally tend to be conservative with budgets, and we don’t try to extend
clients. The process gave us a really good foundation of understanding where
costs lie and how to work within a budget. </div>
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<b>HOME</b> When you learned the house would cost more than you
originally intended, did you think about revising the plan, and reducing the
home's size? </div>
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originally planned. We had certain needs and requirements which included the
studio we work from. It's not a particularly fat house, so there wasn't much to
trim off. We weren't in the mindset of creating a house that was oversized
anyway. </span><br />
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HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-40572867097340151182013-11-28T16:07:00.002+13:002013-11-28T16:07:36.955+13:00Our new cover: The Summer Issue<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Our latest cover (which will reach subscribers tomorrow, and be on newsstands from Monday December 2) features a photograph by Emily Andrews of the home and studio of artist Jennifer Bartlett (whose work hangs at right), designed by David Berridge. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Given all the Christmas madness that's about to engulf us, we wanted to create a cover that embodied our simple aims in the upcoming holidays: to rest, relax and reconnect. We hope you get this feeling of calm when you look at this lovely shot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Inside, there's a range of inspiring summer escapes, from a beautiful pool pavilion on the Kaipara Harbour by Herbst Architects to a humble Wanaka holiday home by Anna-Marie Chin that was inspired by the region's vernacular sheds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You should also look out for the Noble family's fabulous off-grid Northland encampment - made up of a converted shipping container and a clutch of Indian tents - and a magnificent Waiheke Island holiday home by Andre Hodgskin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We hope you enjoy the issue, and that the promise of post-Christmas calm carries you through the craziness of the festive season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-85652807230678968612013-11-15T17:26:00.000+13:002013-11-15T17:26:52.378+13:00More Mrkusich: this time, the master's marvellous house<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yesterday we blogged about Milan Mrkusich's great paintings (10 works from his collection are currently being <a href="http://oculablack.com/art-auctions/sales/316537/">auctioned </a>by Ocula Black) but we didn't want to leave out the fact that the artist was also a great designer, as these photos of his own Auckland home show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mrkusich started his career as a graphic designer, and later worked on architectural projects in his role at Auckland's Brenner Associates. He designed his own home (where he still lives today) in the early 1950s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our thanks to Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tamaki Paenga Hira for allowing us to reproduce these images of the home from their archives. The shots were taken by a photographer from Sparrow Industrial Pictures soon after the home was completed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This shot (below) shows the home's north-facing elevation and the way its striking wedge shape follows the contour of the site. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This isn't an auction of works from the secondary market, but paintings from Milan Mrkusich's own collection that have been selected for auction by his son, Lewis Mrkusich. Lewis has chosen five pairs of works, each pair combining a painting from early in his father's career with a more recent work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The image below shows, at left on the end wall, 'Chromatic Primary Suite', completed in 1992, paired with (at right on end wall) 'Triptych: Homage to Rodchenko), painted in 1966. The pairings of all the works show the remarkable consistency of Mrkusich's exploration of geometry and colour throughout his career. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here (below), Milan Mrkusich's 'Progression II' (1985-92) is shown at left alongside 'Untitled I' (2002). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At the opening, a couple of people wondered if Milan Mrkusich was still alive, as they hadn't seen any new works from him in some time. We can happily report that he is in his 80s and, although he now needs to use a walker to help him move around, he is very much alive, although he stopped painting some years ago. He didn't attend the opening but visited the gallery earlier in the day to see the works. Lewis said his father was delighted to see the paintings, and intrigued by the way they were grouped. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the image below, Milan Mrkusich's 'Dark Painting II' (1971) hangs at left beside 'Achromatic with Cobalt Blue' (1991).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Not everyone knows that Mrkusich, who was born in Dargaville in 1925, began his career as a designer at the Auckland firm of Brenner Associates. He worked on a number of architectural projects and also designed the Auckland home that he still lives in, a modernist marvel that is still in terrific condition (but he is reticent about having it photographed). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wellingtonians will also know his work from the mural of colour blocks on the Cable Street facade of Te Papa, commissioned as the museum was undergoing construction. And, of course, his paintings are in major public and private collections all over the country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ocula Black's online auction of these wonderful works continues until next Tuesday, November 26. Even if you aren't going to bid on them, we recommend you take the opportunity to visit Ocula Black's Auckland gallery space (at 25 Sale Street) to see the paintings - or see more of them at the Ocula Black link at the top of this page. </span>HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-20888677569879208962013-10-17T18:52:00.000+13:002014-09-23T17:31:27.192+12:00Auckland Architecture Awards 2013<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The winners of the NZ Institute of Architects' Auckland Architecture Awards were announced last night. There's a whole host of great buildings here. We'll start with the houses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Newcombe House in Parnell, Auckland (below) was designed by Peter Bartlett and won an Enduring Architecture award. You can see this terrific house published in full in our new book, Modern: New Zealand Homes from 1938 to 1977, which is in bookstores on November 1. The photograph is by Samuel Hartnett. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The other winner in the Enduring Architecture category was the Yock House (below), designed by architect Lillian Chrystall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the Housing category, RTA Studio won an award for the Stable Lane apartments (below), which featured in our June/July issue. The photograph is by Patrick Reynolds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">New York-based, New Zealand-born architect David Howell won a Housing Award for this home on Auckland's Upper Queen Street (below), photographed by Patrick Reynolds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Glamuzina Paterson Architects picked up a Housing award for this holiday home on Waiheke Island (below), photographed by Samuel Hartnett. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Strachan Group Architects designed the Nikau House in Parnell, which also won an award in the Housing category (below). It also won a Sustainable Architecture award. Photograph by Jackie Meiring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You might remember this from our February/March issue last year: the Ngunguru House (below) by Tennent + Brown Architects, another winner in the Housing and Sustainability categories. Photograph by Paul McCredie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Strachan Group Architects also picked up Housing and Sustainability awards for their work for VisionWest Community Housing, two low-budget homes in West Auckland (below). Photograph by Jackie Meiring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Takapuna House by Athfield Architects (below) is on the cover of our current issue, and also won a Housing award. Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Waiheke Island, the Macalister House (below) by architect Wendy Shacklock picked up a Housing award. Photograph by Patrick Reynolds. Watch out for this in one of our upcoming issues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This home (below) by Dorrington Architects also won a Housing award. Photograph by Emma-Jane Hetherington. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another Housing award winner to watch out for in an upcoming issue: the Tarrant/Millar house in Point Chevalier (below), designed by architect Guy Tarrant (who also happens to have a home in our current issue). Photograph by Patrick Reynolds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Cliff Top House (below) by Xsite Architects featured in our August/September issue last year, and also won a Housing Award. Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Patterson Associates won a Housing award for this home (below) in St Mary's Bay, which you can also look forward to seeing more of in one of our upcoming issues. Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And the final award in the Housing category went to the Dune House (below) by Fearon Hay Architects, photographed by Patrick Reynolds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Onwards! Now to the Interior Architecture category, in which there were five winners. The first, the St Heliers Bay Bistro (below), by McKinney Windeatt Architects. Photograph by David Straight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jasmax won an Interior Architecture award for their work on AUT's Sir Paul Reeves Building (below), which also won an award in the Education category. Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cheshire Architects garnered an Interior Architecture award for their work on Milse (below) in Auckland's Britomart precinct. Photograph by Jeremy Toth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The York Street Mechanics cafe (below) in Parnell, with an interior by Bureaux Architects, was another winner in the Interior Architecture category. Photograph by Samuel Hartnett. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And the final Interior Architecture award went to CPRW Fisher for the Lincoln Road fitout (below). Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Onto the Heritage category, where there were two winners. The Fox Street Office (below) was designed by Fearon Hay Architects and photographed by Jackie Meiring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The other winner in the Heritage category was Salmond Reed Architects for the Allendale House and Annex on Ponsonby Road (below). Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now Commercial Architecture, in which there were four winners. McKinney Windeatt Architects won an award in this category for their design of the Special Building, just behind Victoria Park Market (below). Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also in the Commercial Architecture category, Warren & Mahoney won an award for their work on the renovation of the ANZ Centre in Albert Street (below). Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">RTA Studio won a Commercial Architecture award for the McKelvie Street shopping Precinct (below), which you might remember from our February/March issue. Photograph by Patrick Reynolds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And the final Commercial Architecture award went to Jasmax for the Quad 5 office building at Auckland Airport (below), which also won a Sustainable Architecture Award. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To the Education category, in which RTA Studio won an award for the St Kentigern College MacFarlan Centre (below). Photograph by Patrick Reynolds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Warren & Mahoney won an Education award for the Massey University Albany Student Amenities Centre (below). Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kay and Keys Architects won an Education category award for the Unitec Marae Stage 2 Wharekai (Manaaki) (below), photographed by Greg Kempthorne. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Warren & Mahoney won another award in the Education category for the University of Auckland University Hall. Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the Public Architecture category, Archoffice won an award for the refurbishment of the ASB Theatre at the Aotea Centre (below). Photograph by Silvana Dunatov. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Warren & Mahoney won a Public Architecture Award for the Point Resolution Footbridge (below), just beside Auckland's Parnell Baths. Photograph by Patrick Reynolds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jasmax won a Public Architecture award for the Muriwai Surf Lifesaving Club (below). Photograph by Kenneth Li. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Also in Public Architecture, Glamuzina Paterson Architects and Hamish Monk Architect won an award for the Giraffe House (below) at the Auckland Zoo. Photograph by Mark Smith. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the Small Project Architecture category, Archoffice won an award for this Auckland Council Amenities building (below). Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also winning a Small Project Award is the Arruba Bach by Bossley Architects (below), which you should look out for in an upcoming issue of HOME. Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The House of Steel and Light (below) by Robin O'Donnell Architects also won a Small Project award. Photograph by Fraser Newman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally, the Planning and Urban Design category, in which Sills Van Bohemen won an award for Takapuna's Hurstmere Green (below). Photograph by Simon Devitt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And the final winner in this epic post is Matter and Auckland Transport, who designed this temporary installation on a disused part of Spaghetti Junction motorway to raise awareness of cycling. It won a Planning and Urban Design award. Photograph by Alex Wallace and Laura Forest. </span></div>
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HOME New Zealand magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10641249438677969336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047916002226191852.post-77968877774984166802013-10-15T16:29:00.004+13:002013-10-15T16:31:47.454+13:00Our new book: great New Zealand modernist homes<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We're so pleased with our new book, <i>Modern: New Zealand Homes from 1938 to 1977</i>, which we've created in conjunction with the kind folks at Random House publishers. It'll be in bookstores from November 1, but we wanted to tell you a bit about it here before it comes out. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The book's jacket features a photograph by Patrick Reynolds of a home designed by Reginald Uren in Raumati in the mid-1960s. When you get your copy, you'll see the jacket (like the rest of the book, designed by our friends at Inhouse) folds out to reveal a bigger view of the house. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Under the jacket lies this foxy linen cover with embossed lettering. Yum. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The book, which has 350 pages between its gorgeous covers, is a compliation of features of our favourite mid-century homes from the magazine in the last decade or so, with the addition of some that have been newly photographed for the book. The shot below is of a spread from the book featuring the Donner House, designed by Auckland's City Architect, Tibor Donner. It was photographed by Mark Smith and styled by Katie Lockhart. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YtI_zTs0eZc/Ulyt1wWDs8I/AAAAAAAADGg/ZLo4qlTT6RE/s1600/10_pp018-019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YtI_zTs0eZc/Ulyt1wWDs8I/AAAAAAAADGg/ZLo4qlTT6RE/s640/10_pp018-019.jpg" width="640" /></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There are 24 homes in the book, modernist gems from Auckland, Hamilton, Thames, Whanganui, Hawke's Bay, Raumati, Wellington, Christchurch, Hokitika, Dunedin and Alexandra. All of them show mid-century New Zealand as a place of great sophistication and inventiveness. Most of the homes are still in marvellously good condition, as liveable today as they were when they were first completed - including Wellington's Halberstam House (below), designed by Henry Kulka and still occupied by Lucie Halberstam, the daughter of the original owners. This photo is by Paul McCredie. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">The book also features homes designed by, among others, Ernst Plischke, Bill Alington, Robin Simpson, Vladimir Cacala, John Scott, Ivan Juriss, Ted McCoy, Jon Craig, and Sir Miles Warren, whose magnificent Selby (below, photographed by Paul McCredie) near Havelock North features along with a home Sir Miles designed in Dunedin that has been shot especially for the book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">We're including the shot below just to make it clear that this isn't just a picture book. In fact, it includes the work of some of the country's best architectural writers from HOME's family of contributors, including Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Julia Gatley, Linda Tyler, Adrienne Rewi, Lara Strongman, Andrew Barrie, Bill McKay, Michael Findlay, Alistair Luke and Claire McCall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">There are also plans of almost every house, and helpful biographies of the architects involved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">One of the many nice things about the book is the way it traces modernism's development in New Zealand from textbook flat-roofed homes to later experiments in combining European modernism with this country's cottage vernacular, where homes such as Jon Craig's near Wellington (below, photographed by Paul McCredie) combined pitched roofs with open-plan living rooms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We're pleased to be able to offer the book for the special price of $70 (RRP is $75) including postage, from <a href="http://www.magshop.co.nz/modern">www.magshop.co.nz/modern</a>. You can pre-order your copy there now. We really hope you enjoy it.</span> </span><br />
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