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YOUR CHANCE TO HEAR THE CANADIAN-NORWEGIAN ARCHITECT BEHIND THE FOGO ISLAND INN. Saunders was born in Newfoundland and now works from Bergen, Norway, designing everything from holiday cabins to public buildings. His work is marked by a determinedly contemporary aesthetic that is uniquely rooted in history and context – though he is perhaps best known for his design of the Fogo Island Inn, which was the subject of the award-winning documentary Strange & Familiar. The inn was part of a project intended to revitalise the island’s economy, at the same time as respecting its long-held traditions. Local artisans made everything from the furniture to the bedspreads, and the very design referenced the island’s traditional fishing shacks, at once contingent and charming. CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON, $35 A TALK ABOUT HIS WORK…
This might be my first issue as editor, but HOME and I go way back. In the February/March 2002 issue, I wrote my first story for the magazine on a little house in Westmere by architect Nicholas Stevens – which came about after I wrote a parody of the magazine in the university student magazine Craccum. As HOME’s deputy editor Penny Lewis wrote on the contributors’ page below a very youthful photo of me, “We felt naff and flattered at the same time.” Fifteen years – and lots more houses – later, I had one hesitation in accepting this job: there was bugger-all to fix. For 11 years, Jeremy Hansen ran this magazine with a discerning yet gentle eye. As he did so, he created one of New Zealand’s most…
SIMON WILSON Our regular contributor photographed two features at the beach ( p.50 and p.92). Does photographing architecture come with the occupational hazard of wanting to create or rework your own home? It’s great to spend so much time with residential architecture, a treat often reserved for the owners. Talking with architects and owners I am constantly learning and it certainly makes it hard to go home to our very original ex-state house. A new build is certainly in the future – until then we are doing a test run and building a cabin in Northland, designed by the talented Ben Mitchell-Anyon of Patch Work Architecture. You shot a Waiheke holiday home by John Irving and the design spread on Auckland’s west coast – will you be going coastal yourself this…
Until recently, Paul Doran of Doran & Doran operated out of a little studio above a Malaysian restaurant on Auckland’s Ponsonby Road. In October, the tailor moved into a small store in a former warehouse in Parnell. Architects (and landlords) Fearon Hay are upstairs; a coffee roaster is a neighbour and Xero’s Auckland headquarters are across the street. Doran’s signature look is clean and minimalist. Made-to-measure suits are crafted to his patterns in Italy by the Marzotto family and the Caruso group, an arrangement that took four years to develop. His bespoke suits, meanwhile, are made at his workroom in Epsom – though we particularly like the Tokyo jacket, made to order from a Japanese knitted cotton in Italy: it rolls up without creasing, while still looking smart. You’ll also…
“We all thought we were making a craft brewery in an old shed, surrounded by some wrecked old vines,” says Nat Cheshire of Tantalus, which opened in spring on a beautiful bit of land at Onetangi on Waiheke Island. “It started out being about beer and plates of meat and became this kind of continually evolving project.” Over three years, Cheshire – along with project architect Simon McLean and creative director Emily Priest – worked with Campbell Aitken and Carrie Mendell, who with Aitken’s family bought a run-down vineyard called Saratoga, including a large Mediterranean-ish building complete with bell tower. The vines turned out to be in okay shape: eventually, the vineyard started winning awards – and the nature of the project changed. Cheshire rebuilt the belltower in a slightly…
La Grande Motte literally means the big clod? Yes, that’s the literal translation. It sounds much better in French. Jean Balladur must have been the envy of many a French architect in the 1960s. He got to build a completely new town along a swathe of untouched Mediterranean coastline. What’s more, he built it to his own singular vision: a mix of pre-Columbus pyramids and pre-fabricated and moulded concrete structures, inspired by a visit to Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia in 1962. You have your upcoming exhibition ‘La Grande Motte’ at Precinct 35 in Wellington. Why did you want to photograph the town? La Grande Motte is a surreal futuristic experiment. It was built in the spirit of optimism; a sort of utopian concrete cityscape. The buildings are very sculptural and I…
