HOME covers the best New Zealand architecture, design and interiors. It features inspirational, ingenious and just plain breathtaking homes from all over the country – as well as new restaurants, exciting art and the latest furniture releases.
This is always my favourite issue of the year to put together. It is a celebration of innovation, of bold design, and of homes that deliver joy. These are houses with unique creative visions; projects that deliver meaningful spaces for their occupants and those that settle into their site and environmental setting with ease. From a rural family home that gracefully unfolded stage by stage over 13 years in Auckland's Waimauku Valley, to a sculptural Dunedin home for an art collector that itself becomes an object of art, the 2023 Home of the Year winners are a diverse group of homes that each deliver something unexpected, entirely different, and perfectly fitting. On Waiheke Island, we visit a home that is suggestive of a bird in flight, its winged form appearing…
Jo Bates Writer You wrote a feature for this issue about our built environment and climate change. What stood out to you most about this topic? Responsibly responding to the impact of climate change includes a design-led shift in thinking in Aotearoa New Zealand. The role of architects and architecture is critical. Also, I think the Environmental Defence Society's working paper on managed retreat is essential reading for anyone interested in our natural and built environments and how they may take shape. You're an Auckland local. What are your three top places to visit in your area? Objectspace, Anna Miles Gallery and Karangahape Road are all destinations that make me feel connected to creativity and an energy that's unique to this part of the world. What is it you most…
The garden city's annual festival of architecture is back for 2023, with its largest programme to date, spanning residential, commercial and civic buildings, along with guided and audio tours. This year, the festival is incorporating a celebration of the work of one of New Zealand's most significant architectural partnerships, that of Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney, with a range of buildings that capture the development of their practice, from the Dorset Street Flats through to their later work, the Christchurch Town Hall and College House. The programme also takes a closer look at Christchurch's coastal identity, with a particular focus on the Brighton area, including historic and contemporary design approaches such as the New Brighton Surf Life Saving Club (pictured). The festival runs across the weekend of 6-7 May…
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki has announced four nominees for the 2024 Walters Prize: Owen Connors, Brett Graham, Juliet Carpenter and Ana Iti. Established in 2002, the Walters Prize was conceived as a platform to showcase excellence in the visual arts. The 11th Walters Prize exhibition is scheduled to be presented in winter 2024 and will be awarded in late 2024. The four shortlisted artists have been selected by an independent jury to represent the most outstanding contribution to contemporary New Zealand art in the preceding two-year period. Pictured right is a still from Juliet Carpenter's innovative film installation, EGOLANE, 2022, which is intimate and disorienting, following a woman travelling alone in a driverless car, charting her journey through despair, ecstasy, contemplation and boredom. In focusing on physiological states,…
Sherwood Queenstown launched its artist residency programme last month, hosting Northland creative duo Ophelia and Ryder Jones for a 10-day stay culminating in an on-site exhibition. What did you find most inspiring about the alpine location? Ophelia: I was taken by the quality of the light and how the sun would light up the mountains in the evening, illuminating the textures of the snowless landscapes. I also found the flora was very different to where we live [in Northland]. I loved seeing apple trees on the streets, bramble bushes, crocuses and an abundance of wild roses. Ryder: Swimming in the lake and driving along the shore. The alkaline tones of the landscape. The rocks are different, smooth and green. The chestnut trees above the Sherwood and the lime green spiky…
Think burnt orange-red hot sauce, mustardtinged olive dirty martini, grunge eyeshadow, and circular voids. Sound like an eclectic group of concepts? That's because it is. We speak to New York-based Kiwi Georgina McWhirter and Melbournian Oliver MacLatchy about the creative process that drew inspiration from a diverse and curious array of forms and colours, resulting in an arresting new resin tapware range, Chromablock. A Kiwi living in New York and a designer in Melbourne makes an unlikely collab. How did your partnership come about? Georgina McWhirter (GM): On my annual summertime trip back home to Auckland years ago, I had spied Oliver's modernist, minimalist bath fittings in a magazine and loved them. I tore the article out, took it back to New York, and reached out to him to cover…
