Stories On Design // Wrapped Buildings.Wrapped Buildings are awesome. Why? Because they are just like giant Christmas presents, except way cooler because you get to keep them forever. It's not that often one sees buildings that challenge the conventional to this extent. I...
House Under Eave in Pt Wells, New Zealand by MRTN Architects.MRTN Architects's House Under Eave has a shifting scale - from the street it appears as a compact assemblage of parts, which rapidly expand upon...
Stories On Design // Perfectly Perforated.Perfectly Perforated (try saying that as fast as you can five times in a row) is a celebration of the love affair architects & interior designers seem to have with the 'hole'. Get your mind out of the gutter - you know that I mean,...
Resin & Neon Lights by Sabine Marcelis.Famed for her unique way of creating unexpected magic with materiality, Sabine Marcelis turned her attention to the manipulation and diffusion of light to create these sculptural – yet fully functional – lighting objects. Sabine...
Stories On Design // Take Me To Church.Regardless of whether or not you love churches, it is difficult to deny the extraordinary power of these sacred elemental spaces. In today's world full of noise, the church represents a little break, and a sweet moment of peace. To...
Stories On Design // Thin Black Lines, Revisited.As it's been nearly 5 years since I first wrote about my love for thin black lines, I thought it would be fun to revisit this topic after all this time. It's so easy to forget that something as simple as a line can be so powerful and...
Eyrie Houses by Cheshire Architects // Kaiwaka, New Zealand.Two modest cabins sit at the foothills of an estuary in Kaiwaka, New Zealand. Their charred timber skins contrast with the surrounding landscape like a pair of stray boats floating in a sea of swaying grass. Isolated and unconventional,...
Stories On Design // Room With a View.Room With a View talks about spaces that embrace their context wholeheartedly - the site, the location, the climate, vernacular architecture and more. What I love about all these examples is the demonstration of many different ways in...
Updated Collection by Resident Studio.New Zealand design company Resident follows the ‘think local, act global’ approach to production in a series of beautifully refined and crafted...
