Tag Archives: Interiors

Resene Total Col­our Awards

Paul Leuschke of Leuschke Kahn Archi­tects last night picked up the first ever ‘Resene Total Col­our Mas­ter – Night­in­gale Award’ for his design work for Grant Thornton Account­ants, Auck­land. ProDesign ran a story on this pro­ject (Account­ing 4 Taste) in issue 100, and now online, below. Words: Anthony Coates. Pho­tos: Kal­lan MacLeod. You can find a full list of award win­ners [...]
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Sus­tain­able at Heart

With Jas­max dir­ector Tim Hoo­son par­ti­cip­at­ing in a spe­cial CoreNet Pecha Kucha next week, now seems like a good time to post this story from ProDesign 107, about the archi­tec­tural firm’s move to a new Par­nell base. Words: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­tos: Simon Devitt. ‘Art is never fin­ished, only aban­doned’, goes the pithy (yet slightly cyn­ical) one liner. Would that [...]
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Retail Design Award Highlights

He might not have won the Supreme Award at the Red Awards – that hon­our went to Christchurch’s Redesign Interior Archi­tec­ture for the res­taur­ant Poppy Thai – but Mark Gascoigne was cer­tainly the big win­ner at the retail design awards, pick­ing up eight awards (out of 18 on offer). Share/Save
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Tak­ing aim

Hous­ing two advert­ising agen­cies in one build­ing, albeit under the same par­ent com­pany, can provide a few design chal­lenges. RTA Stu­dio recently under­took such a pro­ject with AIM Prox­im­ity. Pho­tos: Becky Nunes. Advert­ising agen­cies have had a num­ber of hey­days – the 50s, the 80s (up to ’87, of course), per­haps the late 90s and early 00s (up to ’09, per­haps). [...]
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Mod­ern Opera

Opera Kit­chen, bring­ing together the best of the Hawkes Bay. Pho­tos: Brian Culy. Cover story from issue 106 with addi­tional images. Some wag once declared that music with din­ner is an insult both to the cook and the viol­in­ist. That’s ok, because at Opera Kit­chen the music is next door, in the big room – the refur­bished [...]
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Mak­ing More of Motif

Xsite Archi­tects’ adven­tures in sym­bol­ism at the John Kinder Theo­lo­gical Lib­rary. From ProDesign 105 with addi­tional images and drawings. Words: Michael Bar­rett Images: Simon Devitt Fraught with dis­aster is the road of cul­tural motif woven with build­ing design. If you get it wrong, there’s a def­in­ite risk of com­ing across as pat­ron­ising and, at worst, insult­ing. [...]
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Clin­ical Trials

Breed­ing an atmo­sphere of good health at a new woman’s health clinic. Pho­tos: Emma-Jane Heth­er­ing­ton. (From ProDesign 105 with addi­tional draw­ings and photos.) Med­ical clin­ics, well-worn places where the lino wraps up the walls and the tang of dis­in­fect­ant hangs heav­ily in the air. In the wait­ing room it’s hot, too hot, and the car­pet is as [...]
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With Bells On

Wingate & Farquhar’s long, lin­ear form for a New Zea­l­and com­pany steeped in tra­di­tion. Words: Anthony Coates. Images: Simon Devitt. (From ProDesign 104, with addi­tional images). The day the tea ran out, Reporoa, Octo­ber, 1993 – I’d decided to spend the day read­ing a novel on a sun-drenched couch while drink­ing cups of milky, sug­ary tea. From memory, the nov­el­ist [...]
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Inter­view: Jasmax’s Tim Hoo­son & Nick Moyes

Max in, Max Out Jas­max were respons­ible for both the base build­ing and the interi­ors at the recently com­pleted NZI Centre. ProDesign spoke with two lead archi­tects about the motiv­a­tions for the 5 green star-rated building. Inter­view: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­to­graphy: Simon Devitt. From ProDesign, issue 104 (with addi­tional images). Share/Save
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Revis­ing History

A visual tour of Steph­en­son & Turner’s recent lec­ture theatre revi­sion at the Uni­ver­sity of Auckland’s Bio­logy Building. Share/Save
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