Tag Archives: Interiors

With Bells On

February 18th, 2010
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

January 25th, 2010
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).
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Revis­ing History

December 22nd, 2009
A visual tour of Steph­en­son & Turner's recent lec­ture theatre revi­sion at the Uni­ver­sity of Auckland's Bio­logy Building.
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Where we Work

November 19th, 2009
For­ging On – A Steel­works Home for a Graphic Foundry (and its sneaker collection). Words: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­to­graphy: Phil­lip Simpson. Ok, call me totally super­fi­cial. The reason I really like Switch's new work­space at the Steel Works is because it has really cool stools. Yes, those ones –the Pantone-referencing custom-made wheelie stools that glide so eas­ily across the über-smooth, newly [...]
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Min­istry of Design for Leo Burnett

October 29th, 2009
Per­spect­ive, Pen­cils and Personality Words: Michael Barrett Later on I felt bet­ter about being lost – well, after I vis­ited Wiki­pe­dia, and dis­covered that Treng­ganu Street is some­times referred to as “the Pic­ca­dilly of Chinese Singa­pore”. Didn’t feel much bet­ter about run­ning late, though. Noth­ing worse than being late for a meet­ing, being on the right street, but being unable [...]
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Interior: Wel­ling­ton School of Medi­cine by Ath­field Architects

September 18th, 2009
With surgical precision Athfield Architects has created a 
new 'heart' for this medical school 
attached to Wellington Hospital.
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