Dec/Feb 2019

Interior

Featuring New Zealand's best commercial interiors

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Monologue
In this issue, there is a small, aerial photo of central Christchurch (p. 50) which shows the cathedral – the lower end of its cruciform ruptured and cordoned off – with the imposing, rectangular new central library to its left. The beauty of this im
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2019 Interior Awards Jury
Richard is an architect and an idiosyncratic collector of books, art, chairs and old ceramic tiles inspired by Islam. He is passionate about design, watercolours and land yachting. Following a career leading one of New Zealand’s major design practice
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Contributors
Writer WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE ROCKET LAB SPACE (P.58)? Two things I love are big sheds for making cool stuff in and science fiction. The combination here was heaven for me – I was enthralled. IS IT DIFFICULT GIVING BIG, OPEN SPACES LIKE THIS A
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MELANIE McDAID
Amanda Harkness: What took you to London? Melanie McDaid: I studied architecture at the University of Auckland and then spent four years working here in Auckland with Scarlet Architects under Jane Aimer and Lindley Naismith. I worked on residential a
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Malt & Juniper
Winner Best Bar Design Designer Sans-Arc Studio Location Adelaide, South Australia Malt & Juniper is a small Adelaide bar that maximises a compact space and tight budget through a cohesive vision expressed in considered details. Even as the jury asse
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Pop Inn
Winner Best Installation Design Designer Daryl Jackson Alastair Swayn Architects Location Canberra, Australian Capital Territory A mobile wine bar that pops up on public land in Canberra, the Pop Inn is an excellent expression of all the jury hoped t
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The Third Place
PROJECT: Tuūranga CLIENT: Christchurch City Council LOCATION: Christchurch DESIGN: Architectus with Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects PROJECT TYPE: Civic FLOOR AREA: 9,500m2 IF YOU HAVE set foot in a library in the last 20 years, you may have noticed
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Ground Control
PROJECT/CLIENT: Rocket Lab Auckl and Production Complex LOCATION: Auckland DESIGN: Designgroup Stapleton Elliott PROJECT TYPE: Workplace “OPEN THE pod bay doors, Hal”. So goes one of the most famous lines in cinema, when HAL 9000, the sentient comput
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In Focus
What was your brief? The original brief comprised a new facility made up of three parts: the first was a new reception zone to showcase everything Rocket Lab is about, from high-end design to creating a bespoke product to deliver the specific require
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Design For Aging
We hear a lot about retirement these days but it’s easy to forget how recent an idea retirement even is. For most of history, if you were alive but not rich, you worked – relying on family and charity for any assistance you required as you aged. Alth
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Nz Aged-care Industry Statistics
• Statistics New Zealand estimates that, by 2028 the proportion of the population aged 65 and older will increase from 15 per cent to 19 per cent – an increase of around 350,000 people. By 2068, the proportion of people who are 65 and older is foreca
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In Focus: Bob Bull
What are some of the largest changes you see happening in the aged-care business? With the baby-boomer generation now reaching retirement age, there is more demand for an active-aging approach to life and, indeed care. The boomers are independent and
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Aged-care Guide
A fresh, comfortable and robust aged-care collection, designed and tested to respond to user-specific challenges The Santiago collection is designed for people with reduced mobility and is suitable for both home and professional care settings. The Sa
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Jeff Vickers
Tell us a bit about thinkstep and the work it does. Thinkstep Australasia works to enable companies to succeed sustainably. We are locally owned and part of the global thinkstep group. We started out doing life cycle assessment (LCA) in the early 199
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Personal Space
What are you working on at the moment? At work, there are some fantastic projects on the boil, including a sculptural white concrete house. Outside of work, I have a neat little ‘upcycling’ project where we are creating a family home on the west coas
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Leading The Industrial Re-revolution
Industry has progressed us forward as humans but the implications for the environment have been detrimental at best. The idea of the Industrial Rerevolution is to acknowledge the fact that industry is necessary for the way the economy works in the hu

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