Tag Archives: Wingate + Farquhar

A Rare Beast

July 6th, 2010
A ware­house and show­room that shows a light archi­tec­tural touch, with meas­ured con­trasts between solid­ity and light­ness and func­tion and fin­esse. Words: Michael Bar­rett. Pho­tos: Simon Devitt. From ProDesign 107 with addi­tional images. Ware­houses, as their des­ig­na­tion obvi­ously denotes, are gen­er­ally exer­cises in func­tion­al­ity, places where pur­pose wins out over pos­sib­il­ity. It has to be said, there [...]
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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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