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The Art Issue: our new cover

January 31, 2013, 6:16 pm
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Our new cover, which we're rather pleased with, features a photo by Nicole Bachmann of the London home of New Zealand sculptor Francis Upritchard and her husband, furniture designer Martino Gamper. It's on newsstands from Monday February 4. We think it's pretty good, and we hope you like it too. 


Inside the magazine is a visual feast, featuring homes and studios of artists and collectors including Tony de Lautour, Rohan Wealleans, Fiona Pardington, Bill Sutton, Dick Frizzell, Anthony Goicolea, Emily Wolfe, and more. We cover a lot of ground, from Christchurch to Hawke's Bay, London and Auckland - all of it in the service of inspiring you, our readers, of course.
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Home of the Year 2013 shortlist

February 11, 2013, 6:55 pm
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We're delighted to announce the homes shortlisted for the Home of the Year 2013. 

Next week, HOME editor Jeremy Hansen will accompany fellow judges Lance Herbst of Herbst Architects and Cathleen McGuigan, the New York-based editor of Architectural Record magazine, on a trip around the country to visit the shortlisted homes and choose the winner of New Zealand's richest architectural prize (the winning architects get a cheque for $15,000, thanks to our Home of the Year partner Altherm Window Systems). 

The shortlisted homes were chosen from an open entry process - not all of them have been photographed by our crack team yet, hence a bit of patchiness among the shots.

In Auckland, this family home (below) by Lochore Priest Architects is one of the 11 homes on our Home of the Year 2013 shortlist. 


In Christchurch, we'll be visiting this project (below) by Herriot + Melhuish, a renovation and expansion of an early 1960s home by Ernst A. Kalnins, with landscape architecture by Wraight & Associates. Photograph by Russell Kleyn.


This courtyard-style home near Wanaka (below) by Glamuzina Paterson Architects is one of the four South Island homes on our shortlist. Photograph by Samuel Hartnett. 


Back in Auckland, we'll visit this home (below) by previous Home of the Year finalist Daniel Marshall. Photograph by Patrick Reynolds.
 

Three-time Home of the Year winners Stevens Lawson Architects made the shortlist with this home on Waiheke Island (below). Photograph by Mark Smith.
 

This shortlisted entry by Athfield Architects is on Auckland's Takapuna Beach. Photograph by Simon Devitt. (It's the home illuminated by the sun at left, in case you're wondering).
 

The capital city's only shortlisted entry this year is a home by Home of the Year 2001 winner Gerald Parsonson (below). Photograph by Paul McCredie. 
 

The members of Patchwork Architecture, all recent graduates, designed and built this home (below) in Whanganui. 


Back down south, we'll be visiting this shortlisted home near Wanaka (below) by Anna-Marie Chin of Crosson Clarke Carnachan Chin Architects. Photograph by Patrick Reynolds.
 

Tennent Brown Architects, who won the Home of the Year title in 2006, have this home near Nelson (below) on the Home of the Year 2013 shortlist. 
 

Last but not least, Hamish Monk of Hamish Monk Architecture features for the first time on the Home of the Year shortlist with this house in Remuera.


Follow HOME editor Jeremy Hansen on Twitter at this link for updates from the Home of the Year 2013 judging tour, starting Monday February 18.

The winner of the Home of the Year 2013 will be announced in our Home of the Year issue, on newsstands April 4. As always, our sincere gratitude to our Home of the Year partner, Altherm Window Systems, for making all this possible.
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Style Safaris are back!

February 28, 2013, 1:48 pm
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We're delighted to announce that our popular Style Safaris are making a comeback. On Friday May 10, we'll be taking a small group of readers on a day-long tour of Auckland's best design stores, where they'll enjoy exclusive briefings on the latest global interior trends.























Tickets are $75 and can be purchased at the link here. Numbers are strictly limited to 50 participants, so don't delay. We're really looking forward to the day, so hope you can join us.
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Home of the Year 2013 - the finalists

February 28, 2013, 2:46 pm
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The Home of the Year judges have completed their deliberations, and the finalists in our 18th annual Home of the Year award have been selected. We're delighted to present them for you here (with thanks to our Home of the Year partner, Altherm Window Systems). 

The six homes in this post will all appear in full in our Home of the Year issue, which will be on newsstands on April 4 - in which we'll also reveal which house has scooped the $15,000 first prize. 

Huge thanks to our rigorous judges, Lance Herbst of Auckland's Herbst Architects and Cathleen McGuigan, the New York-based editor in chief of Architectural Record magazine, who accompanied HOME editor Jeremy Hansen on visits to all the shortlisted houses last week. 

Here are the finalists, in no particular order. 

This highly crafted home (below) by three-time Home of the Year winners Stevens Lawson Architects is on Waiheke Island, with carefully framed views of the Hauraki Gulf and Onetangi Beach. Photo by Mark Smith.

In Auckland, architect Jane Priest of Lochore Priest Architects deployed a warm modernist vocabulary in designing her own family home (below) to accommodate herself, her husband and their two daughters. Photo by Jackie Meiring. 
 
In Christchurch, Duval O'Neill of Herriot + Melhuish designed a sensitive renovation of an early 1960s home by Ernest Kalnins (below) with incredible views of the ocean and the Southern Alps. Photo by Russell Kleyn.

The four architectural graduates from Patchwork Architecture designed and then spent a year building this charming, low-budget home near Whanganui (below). Photo by Paul McCredie.
 
Auckland's Glamuzina Paterson Architects devised a smart response to a huge landscape in creating this courtyard house near Wanaka (below). Photo by Patrick Reynolds. 
 
Last but certainly not least, Wellington's Tennent Brown Architects designed this house (below) near Nelson (with assistance from landscape architect Megan Wraight of Wraight & Associates, who helped devise the sensitive terracing scheme for the home's pavilions). Photo by Paul McCredie. 
 






















We're delighted at how varied the lineup of finalists is, not only in their geographic locations, but in their budgets and the approaches their architects have taken, too. We can't wait to show you more of them in our Home of the Year issue. Our thanks to all the architects and homeowners who entered the competition and agreed to let the jury see their homes. We feel very privileged to be able to share these great works of architecture with you. 
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Martino Gamper visits Auckland

March 5, 2013, 6:55 pm
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Good news, design-philes: the incredibly talented (and witty and charming) Italian furniture designer Martino Gamper, whose home features on the cover of our current issue, is in Auckland next week to exhibit some of his one-off creations ... and you're invited! 

The event's being hosted by Everyday Needs, 6A Kirk Street, Arch Hill, Auckland, from 5.30pm-8.30pm next Wednesday March 13. There'll also be a range of Martino-designed items available for sale, so take your credit cards. Email studio@everyday-needs.com for more info. The photo of Martino is by Nicole Bachmann. You can also visit Martino's website to see more of his fantastic work here.


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Home of the Year 2013: our new cover

April 2, 2013, 11:30 pm
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We're delighted to announce that the winner of the Home of the Year 2013 is the beautiful Headland house on Waiheke Island by Stevens Lawson Architects. 

A photo by Mark Smith of the home's main bedroom, located in one of its three curvaceous pods, graces the cover of our special Home of the Year issue, which is on newsstands from Thursday April 4. 


Also in our Home of the Year issue: five amazing finalist homes in Auckland, Whanganui, Nelson, Christchurch and Wanaka. It's a great diversity of design which we're very proud to showcase for you in print for the first time. 

We'll post a short web film of the winning home on this site soon - stay tuned!  

This is the fourth time Stevens Lawson have won the Home of the Year award. Our congratulations to Nicholas Stevens, Gary Lawson and their team, who collect the $15,000 first prize. And, as always, our thanks to our Home of the Year partner Altherm Window Systems for their ongoing support of the Home of the Year award.
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On film: Home of the Year 2013 by Stevens Lawson Architects

April 2, 2013, 11:40 pm
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We're delighted to show you around the Home of the Year 2013 by Stevens Lawson Architects, a beautiful curvaceous dwelling on Waiheke Island. Enjoy this short web film - and also make sure to pick up a copy of our Home of the Year issue, on newsstands from Thursday April 4. It features exclusive coverage of this amazing home plus our five incredible finalists. Enjoy.


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Subscribe now and get a genuinely great free gift

April 8, 2013, 9:13 pm
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We're hoping that those of you who aren't already subscribers to HOME might be tempted by this offer: subscribe now for one year (six issues) for $43 (which saves $17 on the cover price) and you'll receive a gift that's way better than your normal plastic giveaway tat: a free pair of decidedly non-plastic Riedel Ouverture tasting flutes worth $72. Visit the link here to take advantage of the offer (the terms and conditions are on there, but basically, every new subscriber before June 3 gets a pair of the flutes). Do it!


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Coming soon: The Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival

April 9, 2013, 8:54 pm
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HOME is delighted to support the Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival, which hits screens in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin in May and June with a lineup of the best architecture and design films you'll see anywhere. 

Here are the dates. Mark your calendars!

Rialto Cinemas, Auckland: May 9-22
The Embassy, Wellington: May 23-June 5
The Rialto, Dunedin: June 6-9

For those who can't wait to inspect the programme, you can visit the link here. (Wellingtonians: the festival will screen at The Embassy in your town, so the programme is at the Event Cinemas website here - they haven't loaded ticket booking capability on there yet, but we're assured they will soon). 

One of the films we're looking forward to in the festival is Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line. Charles Renfro was a member of our Home of the Year jury in 2010, and we adore him and the firm's work. In our current issue, we feature an interview with the documentary's directors, Muffie Dunn and Tom Piper, which we're also pleased to share with you here:

Image courtesy of Checkerboard Film Foundation, photos by Iwan Baan. 

HOME What made you choose DS+R as the focus of your documentary? 

MUFFIE DUNN, Director I’d wanted to do a film on Diller Scofidio + Renfro ever since 2002 when I first set foot in New York City’s Brasserie restaurant. At the time, though, they didn’t have enough built work around which to focus a film.
TOM PIPER, Director At Checkerboard [Film Foundation] we’d been doing a series of architecture films begun in 2006. Subjects were chosen in conjunction with Suzanne Stephens, deputy editor of Architectural Record. Once the High Line and Lincoln Center were underway, she rightly urged us to move forward with DS+R. 

Elizabeth Diller (left), Ricardo Scofidio (centre) and Charles Renfro. Photo by Peter Ash Lee.

HOME What did you learn about the principals of the firm by working with them so closely?

MUFFIE DUNN Having made 11 architecture films prior to DS+R, let’s just say we’d become accustomed to a certain personality profile. But Liz, Ric and Charles were incredibly open and willing to share ideas right from the start, which we think is apparent in their work as well.

HOME What effect has their work had on New York City, where they're based?

TOM PIPER One of the ending lines of the film is from critic Martin Filler, who says they’ve had a “euphoric effect” on New York. I think you’d be hard-pressed to find disagreement with that. 
MUFFIE DUNN I would add that their work is inviting. They’ve removed the fortress-like elements at Lincoln Center and implemented design that beckons people of all walks of life to mix and linger. The same can be said for the High Line.

The High Line in New York City. Photo by Checkerboard Film Foundation.
HOME What’s your favourite part of the film? 

MUFFIE DUNN We both love the Blur Building sequence. I find the ethereal nature of what they built breathtaking. 
TOM PIPER The combination of Jeremy Linzee’s music for that scene and the video footage we were able to locate from within the structure really creates a moving surrogate for having been there.

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The winners in the New Zealand Architecture Awards

May 24, 2013, 4:59 am
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There's a bunch of terrific buildings in the New Zealand Architecture Awards, bestowed at a function in Auckland last night (May 24) by the NZ Institute of Architects. 

First, congratulations to Fearon Hay Architects: The Imperial Buildings, a refurbishment of an abandoned Auckland theatre complex (featured in our February/March 2012 issue), won the highest honour, the New Zealand Architecture Medal. Well-deserved, we reckon. The photo is by Patrick Reynolds.

The judges' citation said "the conversion of older buildings to new purposes ... signals a greater awareness of the worth of existing buildings, and of the possibilities they offer to imaginative clients and architects." The building also won an award in the Heritage category.


We'll look at the winners of the New Zealand Architecture Awards for housing next. Nice to see the Lake Hawea courtyard house (below) by Glamuzina Paterson Architects, a finalist in our Home of the Year award, getting recognised here, too. The photo is by Patrick Reynolds.


Glamuzina Paterson Architects picked up a second housing gong for the 'S' house (below) in Auckland's Mount Eden, which featured in our August/September 2012 issue.



Stevens Lawson Architects picked up a housing award for this home (below) in Waiake Beach in Auckland. 




And another housing award went to the Regent Park Apartments for City Housing in Wellington (below), designed by Designgroup Stapleton Architects.



The First Light House by First Light Studio (designed while its members were students at Victoria University of Wellington) picked up an award for International Architecture. It appeared at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC, and is now located on a site in Hawke's Bay, which we're looking forward to showing you in an upcoming issue. 



This place (below) isn't technically a home - it's 'The Shack' at Cloudy Bay in Marlborough, a place where guests of the vineyard can stay. It was designed by Tim Greer and Paul Rolfe and it won an award for Commercial Architecture. You might remember it from our August/September 2012 issue. 


Patterson Associates picked up a commercial award for the Geyser building in Parnell, Auckland (below), as well as an award for Sustainable Architecture.

  
And the third commercial architecture award went to Architecture + for Telecom Central in Wellington (below). 



In the education category, Architectus won an award for their design of the St Cuthbert's College Performing Arts Centre in Auckland (below). 



We always enjoy the Enduring Architecture category, and this year's winner is a treat: the School of Music at the University of Auckland by Hill Manning Mitchell (below). This shot is of the lovely courtyard behind the lyrical blank facade. Go in for a look if you're passing by - the building's in lower Symonds Street.



In the Planning and Urban Design category, there were two awards. The first went to Architectus for their work on the Karanga Plaza and kiosk at Auckland's North Wharf (below). 


The other Planning and Urban Design award went to the Buchan Group for Re:START, Christchurch's lively container mall (below).


In the Public Architecture category, Tennent + Brown and SKM won an award for the ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie, Wellington (below). 



Also winning a Public Architecture award was Athfield Architects' Te Hononga/Christchurch Civic Centre (below). It also won a Sustainable Architecture award.



Still in the Public Architecture category: the third winner of a Public Architecture Award was Pearson & Associates for the Rotoroa Exhibition Centre on Auckland's Rotoroa Island (below). 



The last Public Architecture Award went to Nelson's Irving Smith Jack for their design of the Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre (below). 



Two to go, both in the category of Small Project architecture. The Wellington Zoo Hub by Assembly Architects (below) picked up one of these prizes.



Finally, the last NZ Architecture Award for 2013 went to Ken Crosson of Crosson Clarke Carnachan for the Hut on Sleds at Whangapoua on the Coromandel Peninsula, a finalist in our 2012 Home of the Year award. 



Oh wait - how could we forget? Each year the NZ Institute of Architects also awards a Gold Medal for career achievement, which this year goes to Auckland architect Pip Cheshire (below) of Cheshire Architects (you might remember the Bambury house from our February/March 2009 issue, which he designed, and also the Mountain Landing house which graced the cover of our June/July 2011 issue). We've got an interview with Pip in our June/July issue, on newsstands June 3. Congratulations to him and all the New Zealand Architecture Award winners. 
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Our new cover

May 30, 2013, 6:32 pm
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Here's the cover of our special Design Issue, featuring a group of our stunning furniture and lighting Design Awards finalists. The photo is by Toaki Okano, and the shoot was conceptualised and styled by Sarah Conder and Juliette Wanty. 

We don't like to brag, but we think this issue's an absolute peach. It focuses on the homes of product designers like IMO's Sam Haughton and Hannah Brodie and their enviable inner-city Auckland pad, or industrial designer Ross Stevens, who worked for Philippe Starck in Europe and is building an amazing Wairarapa home out of recycled coolstore panels. 

In this issue, we also travel to Canada's icy Fogo Island to visit artist Kate Newby, who's on a residency in an incredible studio there. And we go to Antarctica to see the restoration job on Robert Falcon Scott's rudimentary huts.

Also! We check out typographer Len Cheesman's lovely Greytown garden, our correspondents report back from Milan Design Week, we inspect a delightful dessert restaurant in Auckland by Cheshire Architects, and much more....

We hope you enjoy it. The issue's on newsstands from Monday June 3.






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Design Awards 2013 - the winner!

May 31, 2013, 10:18 pm
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The results are in! Congratulations to Simon James and Scott Bridgens, whose 'Hex' pendant light takes top honours in our furniture and lighting Design Awards 2013. 

The 'Hex' pendant is a sleek, minimal beauty designed for Resident Studio that combines cutting-edge LED lighting technology with an elegant aluminium frame suspended from three slim wires (two of which, rather miraculously, also supply electricity for the light). It was launched at Milan Design Week in April and is already attracting serious international attention - deservedly so.

See this and our stellar lineup of Design Awards finalists in our new issue, on newsstands from Monday June 3. The photo is by Toaki Okano, and was styled by Sarah Conder and Juliette Wanty. Thanks also to Blum, our Design Awards partner, for their support. 

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California Design - an interview with co-curator Bobbye Tigerman

June 30, 2013, 1:48 pm
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The epitome of California style: The Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946.
Photo by Julius Shulman, 1947.© J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute.
Design aficionados, pay attention: starting this Saturday, Auckland Art Gallery plays host to California Design: Living in a Modern Way, a major (and majorly successful) show that originated from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It showcases the best of a golden and globally influential period in California design and architecture, and we can’t wait to see it. HOME editor Jeremy Hansen talked to the exhibition’s co-curator, Bobbye Tigerman, about the show (this interview is also featured in our current issue of the magazine).

HOME First of all, some context: what is California design to you – and what was going on in California at the time that created the energy that this show encapsulates?
BOBBYE TIGERMAN, CO-CURATOR The California Design show we organised [co-curated with Wendy Kaplan] covers the years from 1930 to 1965. This was a time of incredible innovation and extraordinary growth in California. The population grew significantly with the Depression, when people were looking for jobs, and with the onset of World War Two a lot of industries were located in northern and southern California. You had a huge population of educated people coming here and they all needed a place to live. There was a big demand for new home construction and, as a result, there was a lot of opportunity for new design and architecture. There was this widespread recognition that California was a place where things were possible: the rules could be bent and even broken. It drew a lot of very creative people who did a lot of interesting things during that time.

What made you want to do the show?
When Wendy and I realised that there had never been a show on the subject we were kind of shocked. We knew it was important to do and do quickly because so many of the artists were still alive and we could talk to them and capture their stories. The show turned out to be wildly popular — we had 363,000 visitors, making it the fifth most-attended show at LACMA.

The show draws on examples of architecture, design and craft. What do these sometimes disparate occupations have in common?
Including both design and craft was an easy choice, as the designers of the era didn’t really make distinctions between them. We started off thinking we’d focus on design for the home, but we quickly realised we were going to have to break our rules and include fashion, jewellery, and graphic design, because they were so compelling and so connected to the other designers and industries. We were trying to reflect the era.

Why has this period of design remained so influential and potent to this day?
I struggle with this question a lot. I think there are a couple of reasons. One is I think we have a nostalgia for a time – even if we didn’t live through the post-war era – when there was a lot of opportunity, the ability to achieve the good life. It seemed much more possible then than it does today. I think aesthetically it’s very simple and clean; it was always meant to be futuristic and it’s still the future, so if you’re interested in being a modern person it still has those connotations. It’s still widely available, it’s not wildly expensive.

Almost all the items in the show could be characterised as possessing a certain sense of optimism. What’s happened to that optimism? Does California still possess that cultural primacy?
The show ends in 1965 – the design industry changed rather drastically around that time, so that kind of design community that existed in the post-war years is no longer there. I think if you want to identify what California design means in the latter part of the 20th century it would be hardware and software focused in Silicon Valley. It’s now literally changing how everybody lives and interacts with each other. It’s different, but I think the region still has broad influence.

What’s your own place like?
I live in an apartment building that was built around 1948 or so. I do like mid-century design, and I have some things from the era in my house, but I try not to make it a time capsule.

For more information and to purchase discounted early-bird tickets to California Design: Living in a Modern Way, visit the Auckland Art Gallery's website here. The show opens Saturday July 6 and runs until September 29.
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Updated: World Architecture Festival - the NZ finalists

July 3, 2013, 5:37 pm
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Seven New Zealand projects have been listed as finalists in the World Architecture Festival, to be held in Singapore in October. 

The Auckland Art Gallery, designed by FJMT and Archimedia, is a finalist in the festival's 'Culture' category (photo below by Patrick Reynolds). 

 















The Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre (below) by Irving Smith Jack Architects (a recent winner in the NZIA national awards), is a finalist in the 'New and Old' category.

















A housing development at 387 Tamaki Drive, Auckland, by Sydney-based Ian Moore Architects is a finalist in the 'Housing' category (below).

Ian Moore Architects – 387 Tamaki Drive

The Mackelvie Street development in Ponsonby, Auckland, by RTA Studio in is a finalist in the 'Shopping' category (below, photo by Jackie Meiring).

















Also by RTA Studio, the planned 'Ice Hotel' in Queenstown is a finalist in the 'Future Projects - Leisure Led Development' category.  















An Alexandra house, also by Irving Smith Jack Architects, is a finalist in the 'Villa' category (photo below by Patrick Reynolds; look out for this in an upcoming issue of HOME).

 

The Auckland Zoo giraffe house (rendering below), by Glamuzina Paterson and Hamish Monk Architects, is a finalist in the 'Display' category. 



















Congratulations to all the finalists! We'll keep you up to date with details later in the year when the winners are announced at the festival.
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Outtakes: McKinney's transformed Kingsland Villa

July 7, 2013, 10:57 pm
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Architect Jack McKinney's Auckland villa renovation featured in our June/July 2012 issue, and remains one of our favourites. In some ways, it was a classic bang-out-the-back scenario - albeit with a much more sophisticated approach. These photographs are by Patrick Reynolds. In this shot, you can see how Jack's addition preserves the line of the hallway, which runs clean through to the back yard.


After travelling past bedrooms and bathrooms, visitors to the home enter the addition, and an expansive, contemporary open-plan living, dining and kitchen space (below). The twin peaks of the additions roof stretch northwards, flooding the space with light throughout the day while maintaining privacy from the neighbouring houses. The 'Van Dyck' dining table is by Rodolfo Dordoni for Minotti from ECC, and the 'Flo' dining chairs are by Patricia Urquiola for Driade from Indice. The orange 'Strips' sofa is by Cini Boeri for Arflex.


McKinney's stainless steel kitchen exudes simplicity. Suspended above the bench is a copper pendant light (below) made by Jack from waxed copper plate.


The view below shows the home's peaked roofline and dramatic windows. The sun moves through the space like a sundial throughout the day.


Out the back of the house is the studio (below), which was originally an old garage. Its peaked roof echoes that of the home's extension.


When it came to furnishing the studio interior (below), Jack made a refreshing decision: "I like leaving it empty," he says. He also kept the concrete floor of the original garage.


This view (below) looks from the studio back to the main house.

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Outtakes: A beautiful beach getaway by Min Hall

July 15, 2013, 8:09 pm
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It's that time of year when we start fantasising about taking a break - not an all-action holiday, but something quiet and wintry that mostly involves reading books around a fire. This home by architect Min Hall in Golden Bay seems to fit that description perfectly.

First, the plan, which is interesting in its own right. Min broke the house into modules designed to fit around the trees. There is one living and dining area, another wing for the main bedroom and the third for guests (below). The sea is on the eastern boundary, or right-hand side of the plan.
The photograph below (all these images were taken by Paul McCredie) shows the approach to the house, where cars pull up to the back of the house. Min designed the home's modules to be clad in different materials to break up the bulk of the building even further. Covered walkways connect the home's different parts.


Inside, the house has elegantly simple aesthetics - only two pieces of art feature in the property, so not to distract from its surroundings -  yet there are some unique design elements which define the house.

The box window in the dining area (below) is likened to a museum display and exaggerates the feeling of looking inwards through the forest. A Simon James-designed 'Hawk' table accompanies seating by Marc Zuckerman and a smaller rustic 'Uma' bench by Chad Heays.


Huge folding doors off the living area allow a large panorama of the bay (below).


Perhaps even better is the view from the main bedroom where, at high tide, water gently laps on the shore just a few metres away. This is the kind of thing real holidays are made of - when staying in bed seems like one of the best ways to enjoy the views.


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We like: Rekindling Christchurch

July 16, 2013, 2:26 pm
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We like Christchurch's Rekindle, a fascinating firm making furniture out of demolition timber. We also like Shop Eight, the great cafe in New Regent Street it shares its headquarters with. HOME's Jeremy Hansen spoke to Juliet Arnott, Rekindle's founder, about the business. Guy Frederick took the photographs.

Juliet Arnott, Rekindle's founder, in Shop Eight cafe. She's sitting at a table by Rekindle
HOME We love your new café and studio space. What is it comprised of?
JULIET ARNOTT Downstairs is Liz Phelan’s Shop Eight, a café we built from materials diverted from landfill including handcrafted Rekindle furniture. Upstairs is our Rekindle shared studio space. In a city where built space is so limited we’re happily working to use the small space as resourcefully as we can. We hold evening events and forums that invite discussion from a diverse audience on topics of concern. It's certainly a space that encourages conversation. 

Shop Eight cafe is located in the refurbished Christchurch heritage zone of New Regent Street.
What is Rekindle, and what made you want to start it?  
Rekindle came out of my therapeutic concerns as an occupational therapist for those who have barriers to coping in working life, and my desire to use a creative process to problem-solve wood waste. I began to see that these concerns could be met via a social enterprise that uses wood waste to create employment and beautiful products. This began in Auckland but soon after the earthquakes I decided it was time to move back to Christchurch. Rekindle is young, but we are flowing some work to community groups here who need it, and building demand for our furniture in the store and online.

A Rekindle chair in the company's workshop.
You’re located in a strange heritage oasis in the midst of the red zone. What’s that – and life in Christchurch generally – like at the moment?  
Yes it is strange, a beautiful old street set against a backdrop of demolition. We value the heritage enormously and have kept the street signage from the mid 1900s. The realities of loss are still very present in Christchurch, and we feel this particularly in our salvage work with home owners. But innovation and hope are strong features of daily life here, there are many passionate discussions about what could be. 

Rekindle furniture outside Shop Eight in Christchurch's recently reopened New Regent Street.



Shop Eight and Rekindle are located at 8 New Regent Street, Christchurch. Click here for more information about Rekindle. 
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Outtakes: A Mount Maunganui marvel by Evan Mayo

July 17, 2013, 3:00 pm
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Mount Maunganui is one of New Zealand's favourite summer destinations, but when Heather Coyne and Mark Winter asked Hamilton-based architect Evan Mayo of Architecture Bureau to design them a holiday home there, they never envisaged they'd end up moving there permanently. 

It's a credit to Evan's smart design that they did so. Heather and Mark found the single-level holiday house he created so pleasing that they decided to move there full-time. The main house, beautifully photographed by Florence Noble, features a handsome, compact, three-bedroom structure with high ceilings made from hoop-line plywood. Importantly, the property's original cottage was retained on the site, and now doubles as a home office and spare bedroom. It's visible in the right of the photo below, and is one of the few original dwellings remaining on the Mount Maunganui beachfront promenade.

The tyre-swing that hangs from the pohutukawa down the drive and the central decking between the original property and the modern building (below) perfectly respond to the brief of this holiday home being "a place for the kids to grow up" says Mark.




The view from the kitchen cleverly looks over the home's living and decking area so Heather and Mark can keep an eye on their grandchildren at play (below) and enjoy the sunshine when they feel like it.


The extended eave over the deck offers shade and shelter (below), while the deck integrates well with the surrounding landscaping, which expertly manages the transition from the lower-level carport to the home itself. Inside, clerestory windows on the home's western elevation allow good ventilation and afternoon light.


The living area features the Focus 'Ergofocus' fireplace designed by Dominique Imbert, which warms the area on cold winter nights. The pendant lights above the kitchen bench were purchased on TradeMe.
 

The shot below shows the connection between the open-plan living space and main bedroom and en suite. Two additional smaller bedrooms are tucked into the home's western side, but when no visitors are staying, the home feels like a simple apartment for Heather and Mark.


The retention of the original cottage (below) is a sympathetic masterstroke. On a street where a number of homes look like they're on steroids, Evan's sensitive design retains something of the diminutive age-old scale of this beachside community, as well as providing privacy for Heather and Mark's new home.

  
The following photograph is from just across the road from the house, with Mount Maunganui beach's wild-daisy covered dunes extending into the distance. 
 
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My Favourite Building: Michael Lett

July 25, 2013, 8:35 pm
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We've been running our 'My Favourite Building' page at the back of the magazine since 2005, and recently decided it'd be quite fun to look back over some of the people and buildings we've featured. Earlier this year, Auckland gallerist Michael Lett chose Queen Street's Metro Centre (the big cinema complex with the IMAX theatre, behind the Civic), a mid-1990s exercise in futurism by Walker Group Architects. The photo is by Alastair Guthrie (Michael's head is just visible peering off the bridge at the top).


Here's what Michael had to say about why he likes the building.


“Before this space became Queen Street’s Metro Centre, it had DKD café and a Hare Krishna vegetarian café and was somewhat bohemian. When the new building went up it was fabulously ugly and I hated it, but over the years it’s become more decrepit and I’ve warmed to it. It’s dawned on me that this could be the Civic Theatre of my generation. 

"In Auckland there is a tendency to continually renovate or try to improve existing architecture, often to the detriment of the building. I was quite sad when they got rid of the Metro Centre’s rocket-shaped pillars and the tube TVs with their fibreglass, bug-like screens above the movie counter – I tried to buy one but they’d been thrown out. 

"If we leave this place alone for 50 years we’ll be revelling in its design. It’s a fine example of the façadism trend, and it’s so 90s with the overtones of sci-fi futurism in its fitout. And who doesn’t love a rocket lift?”
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Outtakes: Devonport house by Michael O'Sullivan

July 25, 2013, 8:57 pm
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We really like this home in Devonport, Auckland, by architect Michael O'Sullivan of Bull O'Sullivan Architects (who also designed our Home of the Year in 2011). The long form of the home is clad in white weatherboards, while the interior is a deliberate contrast, full of warm timber. In the photo below, the home's co-owner Iain Wood sits just outside the property. Emily Andrews took the photographs, and Yvette Jay styled the shoot.


The opulent herringbone patterned ceiling (below) is a metaphorical protective cloak thrown over the family. The kitchen, with its dramatic onyx island, features north-facing windows with vertical timber mullions that cast ever-changing patterns of light and shadow through the house.


This is the view out the other side of the living space (below), where Iain admires the sight of Auckland's Waitemata Harbour from the sofas designed by his wife, Jes. The pendant lights in this room were designed by Michael O'Sullivan and blown by Lava Glass. The 'Pebble' tables by Jerry Low and Nathan Yong and the 'Caro' rug by Carmen Stallbaumer are both Ligne Roset from Auckland's Domo Collections.


Michael tucked a downstairs rumpus room for Iain Jes' daughters on the lower level of the house and lined the space in ply (below) with a deep red carpet. 


The pared-back main bedroom (below) features monochromatic bed linen from Seneca and a bedside table from BoConcept. Michael's aesthetic reference for the home's white weatherboard exterior and warm interior was Rangiatea, the famous Maori church in Otaki.


The photo below shows the home's long, low roof pitch, which references the 1950s designs by Group Architects, many of which were also constructed on the North Shore.


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