Why I started Pocono Modern

<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If you have ever read this blog, I suppose you have come to know alot about what I think about the current states of things.  Like most Architects, I have quite alot of opinions about how things run and I do my best to try and affect change where I can. I think that's all you can really do.  </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When I worked for other companies I found that clients were seldom interested in my opinion about things.  In most cases they had already made up their minds about what size workstations they wanted to use or how best to layout a space.  I was merely a facilitator.  I was the one who put it all on paper and validated their theories about how many people could fit on a floor.  That kind of work makes you money but doesn't give you much else.  </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When I would drive to meetings, I would think about the kind of job I REALLY wanted.  It would be the kind of job where you could create things that matter to people.  And when I say 'matter' I mean things that were important in the context of a person's life.  </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">A number of years ago there was this documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright that I saw on PBS.  One of the stories that was recounted was about a couple who had commissioned Wright to design a home and were very pleased with the result.  Unfortunately for this couple though, they could not agree on much else and so it was decided that they would get a divorce.  The only problem was that neither one of them wanted to leave the house.  Apparently, the only thing they could agree on was how magnificent the house was.  And so they both stayed, one on one side and one on the other.  I hope to design anything that matters that much to someone.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Four years ago I decided I was going to try and do something that mattered to me.  I bought a piece of land. I designed a home.  I managed to find a way to build it without getting a loan.  I was really proud of it.  </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I believe that anyone can have a great place to live.  It doesn't take alot of money. It doesn't take a big piece of land.  The only thing it takes is a person to pay attention to how they live and then to create the kinds of spaces that serve those needs.  I believe that we are doing that at Pocono Modern.  I am thankful that we have found a group of clients that believe many of the same things that we do about what a home is.  I will end the year with a quote from cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">'"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">She was from Northeast PA after all.  See you all in 2012.</span><br /><br /><br />

Why I started Pocono Modern

If you have ever read this blog, I suppose you have come to know alot about what I think about the current states of things.  Like most Architects, I have quite alot of opinions about how things run and I do my best to try and affect change where I can. I think that's all you can really do.  When I …

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Our new look

<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Those of you who haven't picked up our latest issue yet may not know that we've undergone a bit of a redesign, courtesy of the lovely team at Inhouse Design. We've put some of the opening spreads from the features in this issue below as a tease. The first is a story about the artist Andrew Barber, with photography taken at his Auckland studio by Jeremy Toth.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbVhRcTC8i_yd8YQGvNN3RVds4vS4L1H_8aXHSj8rB1mUleDERvwTOVP4LFUOyRxMYIAA9tI4gonnXiDixMzMAHf7AEFHkHR4mS_pn3XHFeykoVrk_fLFRatqvuqe-c3fyf5c2LhFsVjdA/s1600/HNZ1211_AndrewBarber_Zarko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbVhRcTC8i_yd8YQGvNN3RVds4vS4L1H_8aXHSj8rB1mUleDERvwTOVP4LFUOyRxMYIAA9tI4gonnXiDixMzMAHf7AEFHkHR4mS_pn3XHFeykoVrk_fLFRatqvuqe-c3fyf5c2LhFsVjdA/s400/HNZ1211_AndrewBarber_Zarko.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On the western shores of Lake Taupo is this bach, a former dental clinic sensitively adapted by architects Rick Pearson and Briar Green, and photographed by Simon Wilson</span>. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2AkRUal3EcDvUAoY_IK7bbm1cfeTxzoVROX3rJLXF0ZAQga2MojIXNMVo7pb1HGD9rGPKzFS94kIH8LXh9ug-DIjH_Fxx102INDzeAi7kieZZACFV07LymP-Pq0fzI7XnEMliGkPTlMg/s1600/Pearson+opener.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2AkRUal3EcDvUAoY_IK7bbm1cfeTxzoVROX3rJLXF0ZAQga2MojIXNMVo7pb1HGD9rGPKzFS94kIH8LXh9ug-DIjH_Fxx102INDzeAi7kieZZACFV07LymP-Pq0fzI7XnEMliGkPTlMg/s400/Pearson+opener.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Some people have been asking, what's the difference? Good point, as we have opened stories with two full-page images many times in the past. The difference on these pages is our new fonts, but in the body of the magazine we also have a new five-column grid (the underlying organisational structure for the layout), as well as different treatments of small devices like bylines and picture captions. Not enormous changes, and the intention was for it to be evolutionary, rather than revolutionary - so if you haven't noticed, that's OK!</span></div>

Our new look

Those of you who haven't picked up our latest issue yet may not know that we've undergone a bit of a redesign, courtesy of the lovely team at Inhouse Design. We've put some of the opening spreads from the features in this issue below as a tease. The first is a story about the artist Andrew Barber, w…

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Brian MacKay-Lyons: Tickets on sale now!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The international member of our Home of the Year jury, Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons, will visit New Zealand in February to help choose the winner of the Home of the Year award (the award results will be published in our April/May 2012 issue). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He'll be giving talks in Auckland (on February 8) and Wellington (on February 9) when he's here, and tickets are now on sale at the link </span><a href="http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=BRIANMAC12"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. Brian is a leading proponent of regionalist architecture, as well as being a sheep farmer and sea kayaker, so his talks promise to be fascinating (Architects get 10 CPD points for attending.) Thanks to our Home of the Year partner Altherm Window Systems for making Brian's visit possible. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">That's Brian below, and a shot of one of his buildings by Greg Richardson. For more information about Brian and his work, you can visit his website <a href="http://www.mlsarchitects.ca/">here</a>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRH4rDbfRG9IgNu_xuM0PVVZ7p726_luEkVPEVaEEtalA9040fH8dqXmd9PdYGLD5Ov4r6D9yozubmMC8njyMG6-4K3t75amID7YW_IXRFJn9lP9ah_WZ4819O0VO5tWkXMYt9Y_Wk4nJd/s1600/Brian+MacKay-Lyons+Headshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRH4rDbfRG9IgNu_xuM0PVVZ7p726_luEkVPEVaEEtalA9040fH8dqXmd9PdYGLD5Ov4r6D9yozubmMC8njyMG6-4K3t75amID7YW_IXRFJn9lP9ah_WZ4819O0VO5tWkXMYt9Y_Wk4nJd/s400/Brian+MacKay-Lyons+Headshot.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJdDqJz1eyEPRQy3xpP0f7PtH2esUndvhekpDOaPVrI0CmSmFEv8o__ewThciZRJJxrjINbqndtM0vXncyOMw5Q-VjZCH7y5hstDlB1glbtn6PKST35qlUhDDr6cSEBkbtwq28wMGcj6p/s1600/GRPhoto_111030_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJdDqJz1eyEPRQy3xpP0f7PtH2esUndvhekpDOaPVrI0CmSmFEv8o__ewThciZRJJxrjINbqndtM0vXncyOMw5Q-VjZCH7y5hstDlB1glbtn6PKST35qlUhDDr6cSEBkbtwq28wMGcj6p/s400/GRPhoto_111030_01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>

Brian MacKay-Lyons: Tickets on sale now!

The international member of our Home of the Year jury, Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons, will visit New Zealand in February to help choose the winner of the Home of the Year award (the award results will be published in our April/May 2012 issue). He'll be giving talks in Auckland (on February 8…

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Our new cover

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our new cover features an outdoor room on Great Barrier Island, designed by Lance and Nicola Herbst of Herbst Architects and photographed by Jackie Meiring. We really like it and hope you do too - subscribers should receive their copies today, and the magazine will be on newsstands on Monday December 5. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9s-TUwOdcSW-e_vc82GHz-AHBHIHjraLbi0YNR29XbX2DJXaz13aKipIoTCrh6ko11lKMLYlwLdxlxFY9fBpCf_lAnTIOOi1fbZFd37j-K93nEPQoGRCkuSJpCdapV6mgQpeYS7q_Kb6/s1600/HOME+New+Zealand+Dec+Jan+2012+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9s-TUwOdcSW-e_vc82GHz-AHBHIHjraLbi0YNR29XbX2DJXaz13aKipIoTCrh6ko11lKMLYlwLdxlxFY9fBpCf_lAnTIOOi1fbZFd37j-K93nEPQoGRCkuSJpCdapV6mgQpeYS7q_Kb6/s400/HOME+New+Zealand+Dec+Jan+2012+cover.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our new issue also features a slick black cottage by Fearon Hay Architects on Great Barrier Island, a colourful, 50s-inspired bach on the Kapiti Coast by Parsonson Architects, New Zealand-born architect David Howell's glamorous New York apartment, a former dental clinic reinvented as a bach at Lake Taupo by Rick Pearson and Briar Green, and lots more. The graphic design boffins among you will also be interested to know that this issue features a redesign led by Arch MacDonnell at Inhouse Design. Let us know your thoughts on it...</span>

Our new cover

Our new cover features an outdoor room on Great Barrier Island, designed by Lance and Nicola Herbst of Herbst Architects and photographed by Jackie Meiring. We really like it and hope you do too - subscribers should receive their copies today, and the magazine will be on newsstands on Monday Decembe…

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Incoming: Brian MacKay-Lyons, Canadian architect extraordinaire

<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We're delighted to announce, along with our Home of the Year partners Altherm Window Systems, that the international member of our Home of the Year 2012 jury will be Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Born and raised in Arcadia, Nova Scotia, Brian studied in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He has worked and studied in China, Japan and Italy, returning to Nova Scotia in 1983 to challenge the region's 'brain drain' and make an architectural contribution to the area. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Since then, he's become a leading proponent of regionalist architecture, designing some fantastic houses and, increasingly, important public buildings in Canada and abroad. He has won five Canadian Governor-General's medals for architecture, as well as the American Institute of Architects' Honor Award. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Needless to say, we're really looking forward to his visit and are honoured that he's chosen to come here. He'll be visiting in February, and will give lectures in Auckland on Wednesday February 8 and Wellington on Thursday February 9. Stay tuned for ticket purchase details. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the meantime, here's a short YouTube clip featuring Brian and his work. You can also see more of his work at his firm's website <a href="http://www.mlsarchitects.ca/">here</a>.</span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="264" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oe-oMeFJJ7k" width="460"></iframe>

Incoming: Brian MacKay-Lyons, Canadian architect extraordinaire

We're delighted to announce, along with our Home of the Year partners Altherm Window Systems, that the international member of our Home of the Year 2012 jury will be Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons. Born and raised in Arcadia, Nova Scotia, Brian studied in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and at the Univ…

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Our upcoming redesign

<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our December/January issue of the magazine will feature a redesign led by Arch MacDonnell</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> and the team at Inhouse Design. We embarked on this process in October after our former art director, Miranda Dempster, was lured back to New York. During the design development, we made a short web film (heretofore known as the <em>HOME </em>movie) to show you some of the process behind the new design (thanks Dean!). We hope you like the film, and the magazine when it's published on December 5 - as always, we'd be delighted to get your feedback. </span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="264" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JPc8q6Wrj1c" width="460"></iframe>

Our upcoming redesign

Our December/January issue of the magazine will feature a redesign led by Arch MacDonnell and the team at Inhouse Design. We embarked on this process in October after our former art director, Miranda Dempster, was lured back to New York. During the design development, we made a short web film (heret…

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From our archives: A hint of summer

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Summer's on the way. This cover from our June 1958 issue shows Tibor Donner's magnificent Parnell Baths in Auckland in all their splendour soon after they won the NZ Institute of Architects Gold Medal. The nice thing is they look just as good today. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPF3C7I2ydS05LwEkCmV6E8AXJLf8VN9x877sns50F_QwmuLvTWqLpGwyvDrC3UAn0TW76CqTo_I-gl-Z308CAi8gzkRpFkxP8a6vcf5_JYJqMm06qNg3P6dHzlipVWT4Ztdmrysq6xHOL/s1600/HOMENZ_101220_OCT-OLDISSUES_0396.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="277" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPF3C7I2ydS05LwEkCmV6E8AXJLf8VN9x877sns50F_QwmuLvTWqLpGwyvDrC3UAn0TW76CqTo_I-gl-Z308CAi8gzkRpFkxP8a6vcf5_JYJqMm06qNg3P6dHzlipVWT4Ztdmrysq6xHOL/s400/HOMENZ_101220_OCT-OLDISSUES_0396.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>

From our archives: A hint of summer

Summer's on the way. This cover from our June 1958 issue shows Tibor Donner's magnificent Parnell Baths in Auckland in all their splendour soon after they won the NZ Institute of Architects Gold Medal. The nice thing is they look just as good today. …

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Outtakes: Concrete house by Simon Twose

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One of our favourite images from our current issue is this one by Paul McCredie of a house in Kelburn, Wellington, by Simon Twose (the house was originally commissioned when Simon was working at Warren & Mahoney's Wellington office). This view looks from the home's bedroom wing across its courtyard, through the living areas and out to Wellington Harbour. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrsjCqqTpL0QrJs1AXVd3opa3BAYH3_W5kHD2_wbj1yhNUHY7QlztrvJ1Bijy43PBnzBdJwonTjiYGxKjiMAb0kinbyqvqMyaI1SAFpI72FCOQG5sC2HcY3khLLkFDkandgYgfMQC32CCI/s1600/Mainey33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrsjCqqTpL0QrJs1AXVd3opa3BAYH3_W5kHD2_wbj1yhNUHY7QlztrvJ1Bijy43PBnzBdJwonTjiYGxKjiMAb0kinbyqvqMyaI1SAFpI72FCOQG5sC2HcY3khLLkFDkandgYgfMQC32CCI/s400/Mainey33.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The home's owner, Brett Mainey, is also a builder - and a man who likes a challenge. So he asked Simon to design a house "that would be difficult to build". What resulted was a long, involved and ultimately rewarding collaboration between architect and client. As you can see in Paul's shot below, the house really stands out in its street of villas, its concrete facade demanding a response. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj3riIl4xqUdWdgGW3DJ2lmecW1Z9aoW_x4xBlwHXQ-FX9lazIP6Wr1tsZgcP04y0T5yY38cwUblnfdbTijwpxRAceTgRHsJmhmRoVRbGUcsieE_B2gly62-9F3hg2SvYe4flbpcGp8Hcg/s1600/Mainey1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj3riIl4xqUdWdgGW3DJ2lmecW1Z9aoW_x4xBlwHXQ-FX9lazIP6Wr1tsZgcP04y0T5yY38cwUblnfdbTijwpxRAceTgRHsJmhmRoVRbGUcsieE_B2gly62-9F3hg2SvYe4flbpcGp8Hcg/s400/Mainey1.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc9KqpybIOQfjQXBgEAU0w1TOcDh6-gmY9IZc8-R22iF_wBvMilYV9toVLvGXrptu1MX_Z0-nqBIbvr_150x6nH_nQbjTDetWJKtBkYD8QEiIRH7HcJn8oTe4rZzXad6jVb57u7qwHMcjU/s1600/Mainey10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc9KqpybIOQfjQXBgEAU0w1TOcDh6-gmY9IZc8-R22iF_wBvMilYV9toVLvGXrptu1MX_Z0-nqBIbvr_150x6nH_nQbjTDetWJKtBkYD8QEiIRH7HcJn8oTe4rZzXad6jVb57u7qwHMcjU/s400/Mainey10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The home's entrance is set a little below the street, a sheltered spot out of the wind that opens onto the navigational fulcrum of the house - left to the bedroom wing, right to the living area. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZ7U8vjUp09tY8FHKI5GIR9ZeQ8fg4H0yghK5j00FW5qLkYPnWhOZT7TrKOeHdMYmuJxgXyPLFH6BaSTyx09b30nvl-jRRmfEaPE1fEqxGd6S42yYuNSDeM2vLIDOUe7hL2q-OXOhH1Ra/s1600/Mainey3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZ7U8vjUp09tY8FHKI5GIR9ZeQ8fg4H0yghK5j00FW5qLkYPnWhOZT7TrKOeHdMYmuJxgXyPLFH6BaSTyx09b30nvl-jRRmfEaPE1fEqxGd6S42yYuNSDeM2vLIDOUe7hL2q-OXOhH1Ra/s400/Mainey3.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the left of this photo (below) you can see the home's central courtyard. Rather than leaving a small amount of space around the perimeter of the property, Simon designed the house so it pushed to the edges of its boundaries and concentrated this space in its courtyard instead. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tKulmLLqPCVFIZjiyORiPDl6mKA7R6qMNG-sYDk8iEJIbqHTIWrI-pS3ZlI2A0Ja0sXNTHu9Nszw_Iap16-UrHGlJjjikdDI1ePNmCpXg5_qEFQw6nAMJFPaeQpzdBHqN_JpXCd5uCPb/s1600/Mainey13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tKulmLLqPCVFIZjiyORiPDl6mKA7R6qMNG-sYDk8iEJIbqHTIWrI-pS3ZlI2A0Ja0sXNTHu9Nszw_Iap16-UrHGlJjjikdDI1ePNmCpXg5_qEFQw6nAMJFPaeQpzdBHqN_JpXCd5uCPb/s400/Mainey13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicgkdaY4tYU5EyT0bgS2Eyueu9evfmhLGiGn1eeN6dbgKcfb-OwOBchXAKyIxzA7DGKwADqPVgq6niqAkGFpj-dmr4vthfKMNAcORbdboSlHB3ScpNZd_mzq2MdW4dMrymtZ7oBfM_bC-L/s1600/Mainey19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicgkdaY4tYU5EyT0bgS2Eyueu9evfmhLGiGn1eeN6dbgKcfb-OwOBchXAKyIxzA7DGKwADqPVgq6niqAkGFpj-dmr4vthfKMNAcORbdboSlHB3ScpNZd_mzq2MdW4dMrymtZ7oBfM_bC-L/s400/Mainey19.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgphRbKzzsa_94zqPRQ8epm8Be9-aW4EkOVNgpdd0GbGICmIO8T9UOOTtpxcb-HiASY0783iHrv_5UGY7RqkUAMh1ADDRA7-KplLEFaNCMpixlv7EpqyhrrgFt2q1zk3iiRajDGG9pM1mu/s1600/Mainey29.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgphRbKzzsa_94zqPRQ8epm8Be9-aW4EkOVNgpdd0GbGICmIO8T9UOOTtpxcb-HiASY0783iHrv_5UGY7RqkUAMh1ADDRA7-KplLEFaNCMpixlv7EpqyhrrgFt2q1zk3iiRajDGG9pM1mu/s400/Mainey29.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>

Outtakes: Concrete house by Simon Twose

One of our favourite images from our current issue is this one by Paul McCredie of a house in Kelburn, Wellington, by Simon Twose (the house was originally commissioned when Simon was working at Warren & Mahoney's Wellington office). This view looks from the home's bedroom wing across its courtyard,…

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We like: Hometown Boomtown

<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Preservation arguments are raging in Christchurch right now, which makes this very interesting clip from the documentary <em>Hometown Boomtown</em> from NZ On Screen all the more pertinent. It examines the major changes to Wellington's cityscape (many of them made in the name of earthquake strengthening) in the 1970s and 1980s, includes interviews with many of the major players of the time (including Bob Jones and then-mayor Sir Michael Fowler), and has heaps of amazing demolition footage. Worth a look!</span><br /><br /><br /><object height="358" width="410"><param name="movie" value="http://www.nzonscreen.com/nzonscreen-player.swf"> </param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> </param><param name="flashvars" value="c=3774&v=5635"> <embed src="http://www.nzonscreen.com/nzonscreen-player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="c=3774&v=5635" width="410" height="358"></embed></object>

We like: Hometown Boomtown

Preservation arguments are raging in Christchurch right now, which makes this very interesting clip from the documentary Hometown Boomtown from NZ On Screen all the more pertinent. It examines the major changes to Wellington's cityscape (many of them made in the name of earthquake strengthening) in …

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We like: Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has to Travel

<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sometimes those late-night internet shopping binges don't carry any post-purchase regret: this morning our copy of <em>Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel </em>arrived in the post, and we've all been swooning ever since. Vreeland was fashion editor at <em>Harper's Bazaar</em> in its mid-century heyday (with editor Carmel Snow and art director Alexey Brodovitch, with an incredible roster of contributors including Richard Avedon and a host of other top-notch photographers) before moving to become editor in chief at <em>Vogue</em>. The layouts she worked on are still beautiful and inspirational. (The image on the cover was photographed at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West). The book is a perfect Christmas gift. </span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_Y7CGndNvpLTHd8NZ0SzG-jhfIPR42z5TDaUnFXdQ1peQ29LZbCGshXd5XyVpvUTMagb6p6QXXcP3q0aRvllL0eGqMSnCyNnxiQieRGW6yoaFdvuRq8rzt_0umGTMJKaUyCANmwuTZ8J/s1600/Diana+Vreeland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_Y7CGndNvpLTHd8NZ0SzG-jhfIPR42z5TDaUnFXdQ1peQ29LZbCGshXd5XyVpvUTMagb6p6QXXcP3q0aRvllL0eGqMSnCyNnxiQieRGW6yoaFdvuRq8rzt_0umGTMJKaUyCANmwuTZ8J/s400/Diana+Vreeland.jpg" width="335" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtp_9_59BXq87I_AWiT9oVeZAucX72SQC3slpkQ_s-QQPT9Av8n2YQJHSlDRCOtkbp1vR_KG1Wpdmlz6szvoe6i80TqwSImbECHsv0dhE9ky0UyEVs2LbVgIOzpsOu9qRyggvTwxGvpCx/s1600/Diana+Vreeland+Harper%2527s+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtp_9_59BXq87I_AWiT9oVeZAucX72SQC3slpkQ_s-QQPT9Av8n2YQJHSlDRCOtkbp1vR_KG1Wpdmlz6szvoe6i80TqwSImbECHsv0dhE9ky0UyEVs2LbVgIOzpsOu9qRyggvTwxGvpCx/s400/Diana+Vreeland+Harper%2527s+cover.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKY3_c9FqdR7g4xKD0-mpypeprDWtUQ8qKD_CbGrC00-YhxYdaoD_VBqhqsBozeSa2s4eEOv6l6udzcYfr52kmD12ZGlnBW0nYDZuzSe-9yAL4xZQwcL8dyhdw4S-1rPgK8JZ4UPQl4Q0s/s1600/Diana+Vreeland+covers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKY3_c9FqdR7g4xKD0-mpypeprDWtUQ8qKD_CbGrC00-YhxYdaoD_VBqhqsBozeSa2s4eEOv6l6udzcYfr52kmD12ZGlnBW0nYDZuzSe-9yAL4xZQwcL8dyhdw4S-1rPgK8JZ4UPQl4Q0s/s400/Diana+Vreeland+covers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div>

We like: Diana Vreeland, The Eye Has to Travel

Sometimes those late-night internet shopping binges don't carry any post-purchase regret: this morning our copy of Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel arrived in the post, and we've all been swooning ever since. Vreeland was fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar in its mid-century heyday (with editor …

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Outtakes: Melling Morse's Garden Shed

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wellington's Melling Morse Architects do an accomplished line in compact, relatively cheap, incredibly charming dwellings, and the Garden Shed, a finalist in our 2011 Home of the Year award, is no exception. It was given its name because its site is a garden sub-divided from a larger property, and because the home's owner wanted to feel as if she lived in the garden (rather than in a house that had monstered it). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">This desire to keep as much of the property for gardening as possible partly explains the decision to position the house right up against the footpath of its street. (These photographs are by Paul McCredie). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaLvyz08ssGPZ2_GD_nztlsM3hA8Rskqui-eqK7aYRYFHux45fEuWBxbon7FqJdvb1WppGwIVS9tmFQ7PJXPcATpARKUAY5R0QDFJ5MNj1TvXRaTTTpi0iprBQUcPSEZ2hfnskEe6aF-xI/s1600/Gardenbox10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaLvyz08ssGPZ2_GD_nztlsM3hA8Rskqui-eqK7aYRYFHux45fEuWBxbon7FqJdvb1WppGwIVS9tmFQ7PJXPcATpARKUAY5R0QDFJ5MNj1TvXRaTTTpi0iprBQUcPSEZ2hfnskEe6aF-xI/s400/Gardenbox10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh4S4BkpxOZ2WujtVeoICMT-Vka2RhNUMDO-3jhFxXYy4p1Z6QzWJEffXHy7J57gGS6CjBxW0oCmrD99mLwCRuZUDmjTf05IoKDnMbyk-jyL_JL-YxQVnfNQ5LBDuhcDMhvzKvLxb_O5bq/s1600/Gardenbox9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh4S4BkpxOZ2WujtVeoICMT-Vka2RhNUMDO-3jhFxXYy4p1Z6QzWJEffXHy7J57gGS6CjBxW0oCmrD99mLwCRuZUDmjTf05IoKDnMbyk-jyL_JL-YxQVnfNQ5LBDuhcDMhvzKvLxb_O5bq/s400/Gardenbox9.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKMCMQ9QaAX3KjupEG_iTb1o969GrboeIFzdlHautYVqD6Sly3VZPe0AhE0DeHyp4hXnceI4YcsovNySvwQEeaPAl93iPQrZfFIGarKuPOwux9kM255Qk_xFP4cqzfBWCVIHF5K_QFGJCF/s1600/Gardenbox5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKMCMQ9QaAX3KjupEG_iTb1o969GrboeIFzdlHautYVqD6Sly3VZPe0AhE0DeHyp4hXnceI4YcsovNySvwQEeaPAl93iPQrZfFIGarKuPOwux9kM255Qk_xFP4cqzfBWCVIHF5K_QFGJCF/s400/Gardenbox5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">While it presents a relatively closed face to the street, the 65-square-metre home's northerly elevation opens to the garden, with tall windows drawing sunlight into the double-height kitchen, dining and living space. The generous scale of the home's terrace adds an interesting note of grandeur to an otherwise highly efficient composition. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGS_BHNKz-XGRG5xm64pizN2vTafNZlYOup0BZ7uurBUoR-WFT-nft7x33fPPNrycpkqwhyJsRq6iFoBXjRuACjx-UXfz3biA-BnMLkfPrfTna69o5Hv-gcYGmW-0ePU3M_ZSHrifep9U1/s1600/Gardenbox4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGS_BHNKz-XGRG5xm64pizN2vTafNZlYOup0BZ7uurBUoR-WFT-nft7x33fPPNrycpkqwhyJsRq6iFoBXjRuACjx-UXfz3biA-BnMLkfPrfTna69o5Hv-gcYGmW-0ePU3M_ZSHrifep9U1/s400/Gardenbox4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4SzdANPUOrDCcWDUQK698HXt6ct_j1I2CbyFL1ajWu2p9lxI3u3Oyc27VZYfEEohQltz1knYjR-Vk1buQ0_siMXdY2vG20FkKRhLEObrLxHHzsiKBXJJgb4jfOCanvgTwJU6fQelD1J8/s1600/Gardenbox12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="278" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4SzdANPUOrDCcWDUQK698HXt6ct_j1I2CbyFL1ajWu2p9lxI3u3Oyc27VZYfEEohQltz1knYjR-Vk1buQ0_siMXdY2vG20FkKRhLEObrLxHHzsiKBXJJgb4jfOCanvgTwJU6fQelD1J8/s400/Gardenbox12.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiL1cWjRx839yMAdpVf8h1sn0zpud42bvhlb1WU8J0XoW1ferA78X-TIkQiIZJUZW6j5khu0Jl8IDX9YBL7PnqzFi-7H6IvlIPOVvmfRh29vXUp5iV3wHZ1URN0CRdeuiOg4AtAuSi6A8d/s1600/GardenShed21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiL1cWjRx839yMAdpVf8h1sn0zpud42bvhlb1WU8J0XoW1ferA78X-TIkQiIZJUZW6j5khu0Jl8IDX9YBL7PnqzFi-7H6IvlIPOVvmfRh29vXUp5iV3wHZ1URN0CRdeuiOg4AtAuSi6A8d/s400/GardenShed21.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The home's main bedroom is downstairs and opens onto the terrace that overlooks the garden. Upstairs (shown in the image below) is a space containing a mezzanine study area and room for a spare bed if needed (the owner currently uses this area for doing yoga).  </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO7XpDadbhlbgXperFlj4M9T8nZWSGxpxSkHt4og9IneS2OQ9H8ZIq1goRk6UtcWFdfUIO8dz0ZwU9CxKQq62jXYlIB-PGyLa3JICVO2AG8gRxsF4S7hwb9Ilh9LQZJM8QVsm1q_0amw0l/s1600/Gardenbox2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO7XpDadbhlbgXperFlj4M9T8nZWSGxpxSkHt4og9IneS2OQ9H8ZIq1goRk6UtcWFdfUIO8dz0ZwU9CxKQq62jXYlIB-PGyLa3JICVO2AG8gRxsF4S7hwb9Ilh9LQZJM8QVsm1q_0amw0l/s400/Gardenbox2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>

Outtakes: Melling Morse's Garden Shed

Wellington's Melling Morse Architects do an accomplished line in compact, relatively cheap, incredibly charming dwellings, and the Garden Shed, a finalist in our 2011 Home of the Year award, is no exception. It was given its name because its site is a garden sub-divided from a larger property, and b…

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We like: Patti Smith's photographs

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There probably isn't anything this woman can't do. In the <em>New York Times' </em>style magazine, <em>T, </em>A.O. Scott interviews Patti Smith, who has an exhibition opening of her photographs, all of them beautifully composed and acutely observed. The link to the article is </span><a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/requiem-lass/?ref=womens-fashion-issue"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, and the photograph of Smith below is by Anton Corbijn from the <em>New York Times</em>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmeUTNc38ZhnKqW19zEV3mL3WSHF8TY3WJIE4BMk_ACwo6sgzHJ-d5YAszTLdIfXMzabFJFK_75axiZmuGEwY-cIeX5xfQ2BBhZcDLezmbJtVp6lIwwrNMISuXpbVdpG6_sMB2V1xAAMW6/s1600/Patti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmeUTNc38ZhnKqW19zEV3mL3WSHF8TY3WJIE4BMk_ACwo6sgzHJ-d5YAszTLdIfXMzabFJFK_75axiZmuGEwY-cIeX5xfQ2BBhZcDLezmbJtVp6lIwwrNMISuXpbVdpG6_sMB2V1xAAMW6/s400/Patti.jpg" width="396" /></a></div>

We like: Patti Smith's photographs

There probably isn't anything this woman can't do. In the New York Times' style magazine, T, A.O. Scott interviews Patti Smith, who has an exhibition opening of her photographs, all of them beautifully composed and acutely observed. The link to the article is here, and the photograph of Smith below …

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From our archives: A royal visit, 1953

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In 1953, the visit of the Queen and Prince Philip was considered significant enough to make the cover of our predecessor, <em>Home and Building. </em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsyNe0-q9dcRMmPSmllpLvLCqwx2SgGbvhZyBPoaWpczup6mQldI-LlujFsxb9n8NYL3YPTiSsa-KBVNdIgHfmtc8WoOA3L7eBP_pNzaWgSEGpOrigHRAs-E0RlYvmdSACWRyCkGU9Ws9/s1600/HOMENZ_101220_OCT-OLDISSUES_0271.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsyNe0-q9dcRMmPSmllpLvLCqwx2SgGbvhZyBPoaWpczup6mQldI-LlujFsxb9n8NYL3YPTiSsa-KBVNdIgHfmtc8WoOA3L7eBP_pNzaWgSEGpOrigHRAs-E0RlYvmdSACWRyCkGU9Ws9/s400/HOMENZ_101220_OCT-OLDISSUES_0271.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>

From our archives: A royal visit, 1953

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Steve Jobs and a Legacy of Design

<div><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I started writing this post over a month ago when Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple.  At the time, I felt really disturbed over this news because it signaled something that many people did not want to acknowledge.  It signaled was that Steve Jobs was near the end of his life on earth.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">To most people, his death will probably be a blip in the news feed and by next week we will go back to talking about Greek debt or something.  But to me, I found a kinship in the work that Steve Jobs did and how he saw the universe.  In a world where so many leaders seem to be following a broken compass, I felt reassured that somebody at the top gets it.  And not only do they get it, they want to share it with everyone else.  This thought gave me comfort.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">As I read the many articles and editorials that are flooding the news stream right now, I feel a little scared.  Probably more scared than I feel about the economy or terrorists and I know that sounds horrible to say.  Yes, I'm sure Tim Cook and Apple will continue to churn out great products and build on the foundation that Steve Jobs created.  But somehow, I really did feel like Steve Jobs was looking out for people like me.  People who feel that the world could be a better place if we focus on just a few really important things.  Steve Jobs used Design to create a line of products that focused on improving communication, creating art, and providing entertainment.  Steve Jobs believed in Design against all odds. Although Apple's growth had always outpaced industry standards, his focus was never corporate profits.  His focus was on changing the world and making it better.  And even though his success is undeniable, it is funny how many business minds dismiss it as a 'one-off' phenomenon.  Apple always seems to be cited as an example and almost dismissed as quickly.  And that is what really scares me.  It scares me that most people really don't understand how building a quality product that is well designed will translate into both success and value.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Steve Jobs was the loudest voice for the movement of Design and Quality.  Now that his voice has left us (at least physically) I worry about who will take up that stance.  I worry that it won't be taken up at all.  At least for the moment, we have enough of his wisdom to help us find the way.  I will leave you with a couple of quotes from Steve Jobs on Design and Quality:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rest in Peace Mr. Jobs.  We miss you already.</span><br /><br /><br /></div>

Steve Jobs and a Legacy of Design

I started writing this post over a month ago when Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple.  At the time, I felt really disturbed over this news because it signaled something that many people did not want to acknowledge.  It signaled was that Steve Jobs was near the end of his life on earth.To most peopl…

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Events: The Department Store

<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thanks to Altherm Window Systems, Waipara Hills wines and The Department Store for their support for a client function we held at The Department Store in Takapuna last night. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our guests got to use their Department Store vouchers from their gift bags (which also contained The Department Store newspaper and a copy of the new issue of <em>HOME</em>) to shop a little before our conversation about design with architects Patrick Clifford of Architectus, Michael O'Sullivan of Bull O'Sullivan Architects and Richard Naish of RTA Studio. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We even had a celebrity guest (thanks for coming, Tim Finn!). </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8JxRKVux84V_z3gmhmTpIHmy2dqZyKlPsYvq4p_yLQB370N64sx6lPBk_e4i23KhlBcoby5zZI8u4803eryiMo0T7bJNYhSR4Nt5lCMKWidI4l7RpY2eg2xmEaIMjDXE5c_jq_Xex_Hz/s1600/Tim+Finn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE8JxRKVux84V_z3gmhmTpIHmy2dqZyKlPsYvq4p_yLQB370N64sx6lPBk_e4i23KhlBcoby5zZI8u4803eryiMo0T7bJNYhSR4Nt5lCMKWidI4l7RpY2eg2xmEaIMjDXE5c_jq_Xex_Hz/s400/Tim+Finn.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbPl5CMwFGvVp2POKmni7lH7RY8wODr0kqlbn5KOIo80OYRE2hm7QL-L8erEECtBtXebRpVAZgkpVTYk0rTEivoDMC73dU6niFS-fcYunMm42k8EIlv9OdPVHkS7CB6pq5rS8XHZ2fnZeu/s1600/Waipara.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbPl5CMwFGvVp2POKmni7lH7RY8wODr0kqlbn5KOIo80OYRE2hm7QL-L8erEECtBtXebRpVAZgkpVTYk0rTEivoDMC73dU6niFS-fcYunMm42k8EIlv9OdPVHkS7CB6pq5rS8XHZ2fnZeu/s200/Waipara.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm_HA8xyuCjaxK9hi3FmeKdwD1iylAejeqTBATXeAslgI-St6_RsiTQyPVhkHypw-3rq9j7IROmB4em4AFCmAEXuOntUvKfGRacEfOrE3KIMICbPGA8DNIkYGE3EcXoSxWsHoL8XMzrEZM/s1600/Gift+bags.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm_HA8xyuCjaxK9hi3FmeKdwD1iylAejeqTBATXeAslgI-St6_RsiTQyPVhkHypw-3rq9j7IROmB4em4AFCmAEXuOntUvKfGRacEfOrE3KIMICbPGA8DNIkYGE3EcXoSxWsHoL8XMzrEZM/s320/Gift+bags.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JUGBehSxKfJ92TSbRzeo7IKnCILwy7aPfyplVWDgYgpYaN76i7iyMRorcbT6aA-PYGQbXjghHrKHzk9VctU0nfIGXmpFvagKAfYA21HkpgYGyqRoJrYYTHWjZoQmE6GSgsJAqc_zxnrF/s1600/Brett+and+Portia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JUGBehSxKfJ92TSbRzeo7IKnCILwy7aPfyplVWDgYgpYaN76i7iyMRorcbT6aA-PYGQbXjghHrKHzk9VctU0nfIGXmpFvagKAfYA21HkpgYGyqRoJrYYTHWjZoQmE6GSgsJAqc_zxnrF/s400/Brett+and+Portia.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div>

Events: The Department Store

Thanks to Altherm Window Systems, Waipara Hills wines and The Department Store for their support for a client function we held at The Department Store in Takapuna last night. Our guests got to use their Department Store vouchers from their gift bags (which also contained The Department Store newspap…

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We like: Al Brown's Depot

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We would like to join the chorus of approval for Al Brown's Depot in Auckland's Federal Street. The pleasingly rustic interior, designed by Charlie Nott, feels as if it has always been there; the food is easy-going and excellent, and the service impeccable. These photographs are by Florence Noble, and are also featured (along with a terrific write-up by Simon Farrell-Green) in our latest issue. We wish the eatery was a bit closer to work, as we'd go there even more often. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Below, Al Brown at Depot before the lunchtime rush (the place is open from 7am but doesn't take bookings, so it's best to arrive earlyish to ensure you get a table in good time, although the staff are very good at managing waiting times). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSMRsHljAtzy8Dbyoq_EGvJwpNQH48Cdnp5kfQrFJ2Gy7iLr7Bb3PyUt4IajCNPvv2D1PJ_dubgpNsyfLd-FHKSqkg_fAgW59R5RkNoARFbrGEyXtgIAXfdQt5lGnKxA5lW8JbQZUG2InG/s1600/Depot+Al+Brown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSMRsHljAtzy8Dbyoq_EGvJwpNQH48Cdnp5kfQrFJ2Gy7iLr7Bb3PyUt4IajCNPvv2D1PJ_dubgpNsyfLd-FHKSqkg_fAgW59R5RkNoARFbrGEyXtgIAXfdQt5lGnKxA5lW8JbQZUG2InG/s400/Depot+Al+Brown.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A vintage aesthetic permeates the place, making it feel like a long-lasting and well-loved establishment, even though it's pretty new. Just out of shot in this pic is where they shuck the excellent oysters. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaojlkE8g3Ykgk4EzxTLxMHZGr9DpO8EzO4DhqxEuawQtfQWtPwWwuyNyWmgHX71g6hF1417opiZD7Sbe9Da5mJLjl7m_HLIvuRxjitkvwA6H_xYAN8bnaHcgL1sg1cmzPvJZGmj53VEmG/s1600/Depot+bar+stools.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaojlkE8g3Ykgk4EzxTLxMHZGr9DpO8EzO4DhqxEuawQtfQWtPwWwuyNyWmgHX71g6hF1417opiZD7Sbe9Da5mJLjl7m_HLIvuRxjitkvwA6H_xYAN8bnaHcgL1sg1cmzPvJZGmj53VEmG/s400/Depot+bar+stools.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Diners down the back get a good view from their benches of the small kitchen. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmg-KOq-xl33dv7bNWKIAWai2Knad__TyDMND88L3nDLhyphenhyphenBkP-kIe4av95CubLqX_rDLsYSePiLxSDyuJDBUAyb4gBZzHo9GCZbNcI9g1MOX0Qn472YvgNGCyuiSwhJP1AYCGUb0H8US-i/s1600/Depot+kitchen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmg-KOq-xl33dv7bNWKIAWai2Knad__TyDMND88L3nDLhyphenhyphenBkP-kIe4av95CubLqX_rDLsYSePiLxSDyuJDBUAyb4gBZzHo9GCZbNcI9g1MOX0Qn472YvgNGCyuiSwhJP1AYCGUb0H8US-i/s400/Depot+kitchen.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsaPRD2_cJK5e83TZ1NveTiLgbQNfNqUqO5GAydsph-JGRT2Q2KWoebkA_FJLlO6WHeUsVuiB58pQW9Wid9BSBHb1KRBR36-QvmYBdgZDMMVcUySgtQZLj8AMx3Cp5XEYB5ak-ujYcH2tP/s1600/Depot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsaPRD2_cJK5e83TZ1NveTiLgbQNfNqUqO5GAydsph-JGRT2Q2KWoebkA_FJLlO6WHeUsVuiB58pQW9Wid9BSBHb1KRBR36-QvmYBdgZDMMVcUySgtQZLj8AMx3Cp5XEYB5ak-ujYcH2tP/s400/Depot.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>

We like: Al Brown's Depot

We would like to join the chorus of approval for Al Brown's Depot in Auckland's Federal Street. The pleasingly rustic interior, designed by Charlie Nott, feels as if it has always been there; the food is easy-going and excellent, and the service impeccable. These photographs are by Florence Noble, a…

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Events: Kevin McCloud, a reminder

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A reminder, for those of you who don't have your tickets yet (and many of you do, we know), that <em>HOME New Zealand </em>is delighted to be part of the team bringing <em>Grand Designs</em> host Kevin McCloud to New Zealand to do a lecture at The Civic in Auckland on Wednesday October 26, 2011. Tickets are on sale via The Edge at the link <a href="http://www.the-edge.co.nz/Event-Pages/K/Kevin-McCloud.aspx">here</a>. </span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8jb79_pHv2UE__Tyazy_EIrAXthkw0U7a9icdzD3H27C6KFDN4J1aVeyisIgIiPNgnEMdG5ONdDfyKu1fJEAkhglaJ7tiuqh7kS6yMFinNxdj17xuhh0xa5zNvLvdLrjKPD_TjbIkfNwH/s1600/Kevin+McCloud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8jb79_pHv2UE__Tyazy_EIrAXthkw0U7a9icdzD3H27C6KFDN4J1aVeyisIgIiPNgnEMdG5ONdDfyKu1fJEAkhglaJ7tiuqh7kS6yMFinNxdj17xuhh0xa5zNvLvdLrjKPD_TjbIkfNwH/s400/Kevin+McCloud.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"></div>

Events: Kevin McCloud, a reminder

A reminder, for those of you who don't have your tickets yet (and many of you do, we know), that HOME New Zealand is delighted to be part of the team bringing Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud to New Zealand to do a lecture at The Civic in Auckland on Wednesday October 26, 2011. Tickets are on sale v…

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We like: David Hockney's iPad show

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">One of the best things about our recent visit to Copenhagen was seeing David Hockney's show of his drawings on the iPad and iPhone at the Lousiana Museum of Modern Art (which is about 30 minutes by train north of the Danish capital). In a darkened room, a wall was lined with iPads showing slideshows of Hockney's sketches - all of them small observational moments with an incredibly charming naive quality to them. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hockney began using the 'Brushes' application on his iPhone in 2008 and drawing by making strokes with his fingers. More recently, he has been using a stylus on his iPad. He says one of the things he likes about these drawings is the questions they raise about authenticity and reproduction: he emails drawings to his friends which are, as he says, not copies of the original works, but identical to them in every way.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">His commentary accompanying the exhibition also makes the point that, in this context at least, the iPad is a magical medium, lending a luminous quality to these beautiful drawings that pen and ink could never emulate. There is also a pleasing showbizzy sort of touch to the exhibition, with the animated playbacks of some of the drawings being created projected onto one of the gallery walls. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">You can read more about the exhibition at the Louisana Museum of Modern Art site <a href="http://www.louisiana.dk/uk/Menu/Exhibitions/Past+exhibitions/David+Hockney%3A+Me+Draw+On+iPad">here</a>. The drawings below are on display on the site.  </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlQG0zEKVa_flLQO5nFsMHlJuQpDTL12oaVkwhLK4OCfvKm4NRqTHja1dpn2yZiwt61mPXKDLf5S-wZtrLrtHeUnAAEZvgWutL8e6TBaYmhGBciNphTloI438hB2B3x89W42ipQ9KCDqG2/s1600/hockney_515x385-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlQG0zEKVa_flLQO5nFsMHlJuQpDTL12oaVkwhLK4OCfvKm4NRqTHja1dpn2yZiwt61mPXKDLf5S-wZtrLrtHeUnAAEZvgWutL8e6TBaYmhGBciNphTloI438hB2B3x89W42ipQ9KCDqG2/s400/hockney_515x385-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CK3tVUcAMpuvR_053Co3vp4CjGo37Z91Ng4cHZ-br0dLqFi1zWslWrB71gztwcS2lc3hhk91xHP2z_dJmtZqrSz7nP5c306ZhUkRY0qyez0kOzJ0ljY-mltSyMJg-TDOFzcJf4bA0-Nd/s1600/hockney_515x385-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CK3tVUcAMpuvR_053Co3vp4CjGo37Z91Ng4cHZ-br0dLqFi1zWslWrB71gztwcS2lc3hhk91xHP2z_dJmtZqrSz7nP5c306ZhUkRY0qyez0kOzJ0ljY-mltSyMJg-TDOFzcJf4bA0-Nd/s400/hockney_515x385-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggzalEgGeIryKVqYYOFPZlQKXDCfWsjvBzxOZi_-zsjM5l9Fo0OBw7QDgOsCZh_BzVtT-VMUMBVJzniwGaKg_m9MPGCXVgjMLxpCZgl8TRK8jAIbtu1PBkOCVnnuE4ztAVzERH8W5CSDn2/s1600/hockney_515x385-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggzalEgGeIryKVqYYOFPZlQKXDCfWsjvBzxOZi_-zsjM5l9Fo0OBw7QDgOsCZh_BzVtT-VMUMBVJzniwGaKg_m9MPGCXVgjMLxpCZgl8TRK8jAIbtu1PBkOCVnnuE4ztAVzERH8W5CSDn2/s400/hockney_515x385-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>

We like: David Hockney's iPad show

One of the best things about our recent visit to Copenhagen was seeing David Hockney's show of his drawings on the iPad and iPhone at the Lousiana Museum of Modern Art (which is about 30 minutes by train north of the Danish capital). In a darkened room, a wall was lined with iPads showing slideshows…

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Outtakes: The Kare Kare house, our Home of the Year 2011 by Michael O'Sullivan

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From the black sand of Kare Kare beach, the <em>HOME New Zealand</em> magazine Home of the Year 2011 is almost invisible. The house was designed by Michael O'Sullivan of Bull O'Sullivan Architects for Bob and Barbara Harvey. It's a pleasure for us to be able to show you some outtakes from Patrick Reynolds' beautiful shoot of the house here. In the shot below, you can just see the house nestled among the trees in the lower right-hand corner of the frame. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguA1o9rwozROjQNInc5fLeASM1wJuUKGt15eY1X8ozA_5M2k8BeLBitmFFSPrIe04wHOtaCKvFQ_rZ_8DgkqVgsep0djwBb3BjvbHAwxwhOt33a61MPZ9LsBXUWG92hOwNDlubndhUkWR0/s1600/KAREKARE+BACH_1540.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguA1o9rwozROjQNInc5fLeASM1wJuUKGt15eY1X8ozA_5M2k8BeLBitmFFSPrIe04wHOtaCKvFQ_rZ_8DgkqVgsep0djwBb3BjvbHAwxwhOt33a61MPZ9LsBXUWG92hOwNDlubndhUkWR0/s400/KAREKARE+BACH_1540.JPG" width="266" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Inside, the house faces south towards the beach, but draws light in from a sheltered north-facing courtyard and from glass panels on the roof. The weatherboard ceiling appears to fragment and fall away as it nears the home's southern wall, giving way to the glass panels overhead. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaQcM6JKHVfGIXstzNePn_KmluNci4pmpPlTqW7oMwDXM-fef9myXAr0gQzek6KVsZROyyamobUMejguSfcmYf0ISSGUSCFkBMIdBd3TSEqLC8uNacKQtSg9RbPTllPsbp0zwjor5wTaU/s1600/KAREKARE+BACH_1589.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaQcM6JKHVfGIXstzNePn_KmluNci4pmpPlTqW7oMwDXM-fef9myXAr0gQzek6KVsZROyyamobUMejguSfcmYf0ISSGUSCFkBMIdBd3TSEqLC8uNacKQtSg9RbPTllPsbp0zwjor5wTaU/s400/KAREKARE+BACH_1589.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUE0bSNpAYxvEO_Butu531__r_CUWhGcqEekthwEJ5sAnKT6jcPF8AY5zZ2oowZd94VRcyVTrYctzpVusFutUMDzqCu3kX0aZSCTattm2eDifDb2p-xitV5_YTesdOSz1XtwTQIPCvj0DD/s1600/KAREKARE+BACH_1800.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUE0bSNpAYxvEO_Butu531__r_CUWhGcqEekthwEJ5sAnKT6jcPF8AY5zZ2oowZd94VRcyVTrYctzpVusFutUMDzqCu3kX0aZSCTattm2eDifDb2p-xitV5_YTesdOSz1XtwTQIPCvj0DD/s400/KAREKARE+BACH_1800.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The ceiling tilts towards a band of windows that frame the view towards the beach into a horiztonal slot. Holes for lightbulb recesses are punched into the ceiling. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3DhH1N-TUw3fHVCiQMMjWE4yAxF7ieD2USBjDNy8_C7_EgZ5jBwfSrAWKoOTwcBiK6jbzvbXNLs86npeW5MyNgorc7z4q2Ie48LV3la1P7MIWxLBuS6yIcRCiY6XpPeS2mpCJWP7ph4LD/s1600/KAREKARE+BACH_1867.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3DhH1N-TUw3fHVCiQMMjWE4yAxF7ieD2USBjDNy8_C7_EgZ5jBwfSrAWKoOTwcBiK6jbzvbXNLs86npeW5MyNgorc7z4q2Ie48LV3la1P7MIWxLBuS6yIcRCiY6XpPeS2mpCJWP7ph4LD/s400/KAREKARE+BACH_1867.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Outside in the courtyard, the ceiling plane appears to erode again to admit as much sunlight as possible into the space. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqA0Jic0q4UWYSOGC4PsZXfDm2YXA2bbcXF2pbvAHhr_8lLw5na-1Juhr8_i4dbSMqdDVRau_UP8C0V23MAXj1kpkzEFzW6Uvtu1fpATGMu2cfQrSqxs3WvddZvPECFwbMvoxg9oC2FiC7/s1600/KAREKARE+BACH_1886.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqA0Jic0q4UWYSOGC4PsZXfDm2YXA2bbcXF2pbvAHhr_8lLw5na-1Juhr8_i4dbSMqdDVRau_UP8C0V23MAXj1kpkzEFzW6Uvtu1fpATGMu2cfQrSqxs3WvddZvPECFwbMvoxg9oC2FiC7/s400/KAREKARE+BACH_1886.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The main bedroom (the 129-square-metre house has two bedrooms in total) features orange carpet and windows wrapping the ceiling and wall at the northern end of the room. The door at left leads to the courtyard. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlQd8dqXGWEC1JQ06e3Z1PDBBjirlNwoHVuDgnAM0c3j4l9Ak6J1DoaVWWlzf88erRKJzfbLZL2Zj3BRMroFZzfYDN-CRdmnaQ8voa8YovcnJaBCUCqhGx2LcK-4mi2QwU4lLCPPz-rzR/s1600/KAREKARE+BACH_1900.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlQd8dqXGWEC1JQ06e3Z1PDBBjirlNwoHVuDgnAM0c3j4l9Ak6J1DoaVWWlzf88erRKJzfbLZL2Zj3BRMroFZzfYDN-CRdmnaQ8voa8YovcnJaBCUCqhGx2LcK-4mi2QwU4lLCPPz-rzR/s400/KAREKARE+BACH_1900.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This view from outside the house is about all that can be seen of it from the road. It shows the main bedroom volume (clad in black bituminous roofing membrane) cantilevered over the carport.  </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkGQ6OOSELDaVqKRAuOLczo99e6UKH5Opft5FG9XqS2fTYN_66sBAgxT_3VZT6zgmf9pnG9LwasUySqPIpRa-eH7KeamORXJuAAUA0lDyZhZvpZcSAvw26nMPdesZX7C0ACbNVeDl1V-s_/s1600/KAREKARE+BACH_2154.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkGQ6OOSELDaVqKRAuOLczo99e6UKH5Opft5FG9XqS2fTYN_66sBAgxT_3VZT6zgmf9pnG9LwasUySqPIpRa-eH7KeamORXJuAAUA0lDyZhZvpZcSAvw26nMPdesZX7C0ACbNVeDl1V-s_/s400/KAREKARE+BACH_2154.JPG" width="266" /></a></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We'll post more outtakes of the finalists in the 2011 Home of the Year here on the blog in the coming days. Thanks again to our Home of the Year partner Altherm Window Systems for their ongoing support of New Zealand's richest architectural prize. </span></div>

Outtakes: The Kare Kare house, our Home of the Year 2011 by Michael O'Sullivan

From the black sand of Kare Kare beach, the HOME New Zealand magazine Home of the Year 2011 is almost invisible. The house was designed by Michael O'Sullivan of Bull O'Sullivan Architects for Bob and Barbara Harvey. It's a pleasure for us to be able to show you some outtakes from Patrick Reynolds' b…

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Real Estate: A piece of New Zealand history, for sale

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's not often you see a piece of New Zealand history in the real estate pages, but now potter Peter Stichbury and his wife Diane are moving out of their South Auckland house and studio and putting the property up for sale. (The auction's on Sunday October 30 - more info at the link </span><a href="http://www.mikepero.com/property/MPRE21224"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZc5OPvIPFf9AtOk9M2yCwfCX4vut9z6J5YD8_1hnb76u6hlZTJjfATAD34HIF6jVnCcnoHgVzj3gUDF4di3wD7tHCnV0hPpElc2HO_cie7XT5oxVfbfKZ_9AgBfqQl0l5lGgWyNoza6P/s1600/Peter+Stitchbury+house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZc5OPvIPFf9AtOk9M2yCwfCX4vut9z6J5YD8_1hnb76u6hlZTJjfATAD34HIF6jVnCcnoHgVzj3gUDF4di3wD7tHCnV0hPpElc2HO_cie7XT5oxVfbfKZ_9AgBfqQl0l5lGgWyNoza6P/s400/Peter+Stitchbury+house.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="left"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Peter stopped potting about five years ago, but you can read more about his works at Te Papa's website </span><a href="http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/theme.aspx?irn=2259"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. </span></div>

Real Estate: A piece of New Zealand history, for sale

It's not often you see a piece of New Zealand history in the real estate pages, but now potter Peter Stichbury and his wife Diane are moving out of their South Auckland house and studio and putting the property up for sale. (The auction's on Sunday October 30 - more info at the link here).Peter sto…

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Zaha Hadid's second Stirling Prize

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">British architect Zaha Hadid has won the 2011 Stirling Prize for her design of a London school building, the Evelyn Grace Academy. She also won the award last year for the MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome. The award, now in its 16th year, is intended to recognise the best European building designed or built in Britain.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERzRh8RwXy9PuVr2EI8byfyVCBMGYNy8RJ2c4nCWF5gLIqq-ELJ6Qsu377Kqd0NLPdZaRqooOjK4dA7dukvZ07NLKQKLUitpsvfpjQz9woW3uTC7X4yAH_Ged0kBLmu4lyT2sF1PXRka9/s1600/Evelyn-Grace-Academy-in-B-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERzRh8RwXy9PuVr2EI8byfyVCBMGYNy8RJ2c4nCWF5gLIqq-ELJ6Qsu377Kqd0NLPdZaRqooOjK4dA7dukvZ07NLKQKLUitpsvfpjQz9woW3uTC7X4yAH_Ged0kBLmu4lyT2sF1PXRka9/s400/Evelyn-Grace-Academy-in-B-007.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You can read Vanessa Thorpe's story on the prize announcement in <em>The Guardian</em> at the link </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/oct/01/stirling-prize-zaha-hadid-brixton-school"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. The newspaper also features a video presentation of the Stirling Prize finalists <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2011/sep/30/stirling-prize-2011-shortlist-video?intcmp=239">here</a>. </span></div>

Zaha Hadid's second Stirling Prize

British architect Zaha Hadid has won the 2011 Stirling Prize for her design of a London school building, the Evelyn Grace Academy. She also won the award last year for the MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome. The award, now in its 16th year, is intended to recognise the best European building …

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Renzo Piano at Ronchamp

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There's an interesting piece by Jonathan Glancey in <em>The Guardian</em> about a new convent designed by Renzo Piano at Ronchamp, which of course is also the site of Le Corbusier's revered Notre Dame du Haut chapel.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW1cClpZ7U_QuGJyaujWO2F-d4Pnp2oSupzu2nh6anOIUvyw6UXdYaA6r1ffWjjoKEOvEvSZkvAmv18KoRZgyC0-TuodWg9T_1jVOlDBDT6rOrcEr-CNQwWTO1m1gfFEGBht7SZc5vvWII/s1600/Renzo-Pianos-chapel--007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW1cClpZ7U_QuGJyaujWO2F-d4Pnp2oSupzu2nh6anOIUvyw6UXdYaA6r1ffWjjoKEOvEvSZkvAmv18KoRZgyC0-TuodWg9T_1jVOlDBDT6rOrcEr-CNQwWTO1m1gfFEGBht7SZc5vvWII/s400/Renzo-Pianos-chapel--007.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Much consternation surrounded the announcement that Piano was to create a building here, but the purists need not be worried about architectural sacrilege, as Glancey praises Piano's "quietly masterful" work in producing a convent that "wraps itself around contours of the hill, burrowing into the landscape like the strands of a rosary pressed gently into the earth". You can read his story and see more images of the convent at the link <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/25/renzo-piano-convent-ronchamp">here</a>. We'd like to go and visit right away...</span><br /><br /><div align="left"></div>

Renzo Piano at Ronchamp

There's an interesting piece by Jonathan Glancey in The Guardian about a new convent designed by Renzo Piano at Ronchamp, which of course is also the site of Le Corbusier's revered Notre Dame du Haut chapel.Much consternation surrounded the announcement that Piano was to create a building here, but …

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From our archives: Our worst cover ever?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A gem from our archives that shows our predecessors didn't do everything right. This is from the unfortunate period in the 1960s and 1970s when the cover of the magazine was pretty much put up for sale. Here, a model in a field (in a fetching outfit, we must admit) holds an aluminium door frame leading to ... where exactly? We're baffled, but have to admit we kinda love it too. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTVipRKBpEkZ5Nj13ZDwlKWiakJMHD0GmGebrEG5YtaddH4gTC35iuYfEK4zvUTdWoukRC6313zPae_zOvKiZR0D86NPZAH1mlfeO0i1SP0EQiJBZZQUQOZnkeyDdvUfDvXPV_mbxszfll/s1600/Worst+cover+ever.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTVipRKBpEkZ5Nj13ZDwlKWiakJMHD0GmGebrEG5YtaddH4gTC35iuYfEK4zvUTdWoukRC6313zPae_zOvKiZR0D86NPZAH1mlfeO0i1SP0EQiJBZZQUQOZnkeyDdvUfDvXPV_mbxszfll/s400/Worst+cover+ever.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div align="left"></div>

From our archives: Our worst cover ever?

A gem from our archives that shows our predecessors didn't do everything right. This is from the unfortunate period in the 1960s and 1970s when the cover of the magazine was pretty much put up for sale. Here, a model in a field (in a fetching outfit, we must admit) holds an aluminium door frame lead…

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Travel: Copenhagen's Kastrup Sea Baths

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Copenhagen's Kastrup Sea Baths, designed by White Arkitektur AB and built in 2004, are a delighful invitation to take a dip. And we needed enticement the day we visited in August, during a month in which the Danes had been complaining about their cooler-than-usual summer. There was one other couple at the baths, but they'd already been in the water. The lifeguard on duty was bundled up in a fleece jacket and scarf. It was only 16 degrees, but we had to go in, as we'd come all the way from New Zealand. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCnon2IqYtiqZq2gAMlHddrxmYLjjrXGG0Gg8cNNMIp3HiN2sjWtZO0HXmYTywV1ZkAu_cLxoG5Ipl2VIhJlRRe6fCEa_COIxlwIOOtrroOZ56Of-JdNqpoNr2E8DcLvJvhwzF3bpyYwb/s1600/IMG_1063H.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCnon2IqYtiqZq2gAMlHddrxmYLjjrXGG0Gg8cNNMIp3HiN2sjWtZO0HXmYTywV1ZkAu_cLxoG5Ipl2VIhJlRRe6fCEa_COIxlwIOOtrroOZ56Of-JdNqpoNr2E8DcLvJvhwzF3bpyYwb/s400/IMG_1063H.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Besides, the baths themselves are fantastic - in reality they are not baths so much as a circular, sheltered platform at the end of a wharf that extends from the beach. (It's a short ride - about 15 minutes - on Copenhagen's new subway from the central city to a stop that's a few minutes' walk from the beach). The structure contains changing rooms and culminates in a diving platform. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZCSse4jylLlJMAZwayCMtRHKXVZnKYpLsLjd4QZsI_zlNiBfGQm5pNM0UP4hUIxA5beqU0MB7MEQpRGFDC4rkUbZROVEn6mprC6WhlX7welUhsb9xz5o3gl8KJppYXw2n56cciqZuIDZQ/s1600/IMG_1063L.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZCSse4jylLlJMAZwayCMtRHKXVZnKYpLsLjd4QZsI_zlNiBfGQm5pNM0UP4hUIxA5beqU0MB7MEQpRGFDC4rkUbZROVEn6mprC6WhlX7welUhsb9xz5o3gl8KJppYXw2n56cciqZuIDZQ/s400/IMG_1063L.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The great advantage of the circular timber structure is that there is always somewhere to shelter from the breeze.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrERMHK2wxoj8wvVozopM12ilBBC_D0OPisZKfZ5G0RVDdVv9gzMnp1dS1ElT9ISRfIzSM3_1BTGpYSP7_WbhAc4AEG2h0qvTNpodfjx4TUf5oNqrvF0hJLB4Dj9jjvvgK7zhEYguy2AcT/s1600/IMG_1064A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrERMHK2wxoj8wvVozopM12ilBBC_D0OPisZKfZ5G0RVDdVv9gzMnp1dS1ElT9ISRfIzSM3_1BTGpYSP7_WbhAc4AEG2h0qvTNpodfjx4TUf5oNqrvF0hJLB4Dj9jjvvgK7zhEYguy2AcT/s400/IMG_1064A.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">From the top of the diving platform, the view north towards central Copenhagen also takes in some of the offshore wind turbines. The images below show some of the other points from which swimmers can dive off the structure. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMCZWv-aqgvCrvCHHhjhRfKSP1UFNU6nqQHt93hZJvHQ2VF_fDrMP6db3WpG2X0s3u7kvyxs2BKibSC0TuR3jamuH9Dy8Xq6sBHoLkXSMZ2VxdbAq5M1wgLnl49_cNseZLJZ_s03OXPta0/s1600/IMG_1064O.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMCZWv-aqgvCrvCHHhjhRfKSP1UFNU6nqQHt93hZJvHQ2VF_fDrMP6db3WpG2X0s3u7kvyxs2BKibSC0TuR3jamuH9Dy8Xq6sBHoLkXSMZ2VxdbAq5M1wgLnl49_cNseZLJZ_s03OXPta0/s400/IMG_1064O.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The clear panel you can see in the image below contains outdoor showers where swimmers can rinse off with a view of the Oresund Bridge leading from Denmark to Sweden as well as Santiago Calatrava's 'Turning Torso' residential tower in Malmo across the water.</span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHjIkqyK0gO3WxXoH0v-gVhrMHAIBQjjskwKs1QCCH4cESIZCsC9iMVf06vXvmeMQ2Q7-m48UMOQUEBpTxcdXxGPjTAk29awKS_iAHyIZW-bUgJiA-Z9m84NG4GKKNyBrhXXOh6AsSpByL/s1600/IMG_1063P.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHjIkqyK0gO3WxXoH0v-gVhrMHAIBQjjskwKs1QCCH4cESIZCsC9iMVf06vXvmeMQ2Q7-m48UMOQUEBpTxcdXxGPjTAk29awKS_iAHyIZW-bUgJiA-Z9m84NG4GKKNyBrhXXOh6AsSpByL/s400/IMG_1063P.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the photographs below you can see white doors which lead to the small changing rooms. That's the lifeguard reading in her chair - the cool temperatures meant it wasn't a busy day at the baths, but we were still pleased we took the plunge. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxu4uuXgicS6ciN-8GZX7XlFPtIt3AfivohVXY8gaPpTQL0PGFYMrJMw0DGwNyjs2xXMGfAi_hjjypRXpK_5W6Ew5CHiifORuFULc7OWsx364BuCAfdGwHiTvNxWU4tka8o_eY5n2JlH6t/s1600/IMG_1064K.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxu4uuXgicS6ciN-8GZX7XlFPtIt3AfivohVXY8gaPpTQL0PGFYMrJMw0DGwNyjs2xXMGfAi_hjjypRXpK_5W6Ew5CHiifORuFULc7OWsx364BuCAfdGwHiTvNxWU4tka8o_eY5n2JlH6t/s400/IMG_1064K.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidnhzl4vSO4xtWkkS7po9BEFaYz1o7Gncq_G0JSPHhCJaKBtCHkzaEakyD5OGFMak3uGy9DTV5wVmC_TcXN29NSRVFQegGOyP25kgQVWlXq6fChdy4sKYuyfwluFeP5XJFbLv_SZ6G8TB1/s1600/IMG_1063X.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidnhzl4vSO4xtWkkS7po9BEFaYz1o7Gncq_G0JSPHhCJaKBtCHkzaEakyD5OGFMak3uGy9DTV5wVmC_TcXN29NSRVFQegGOyP25kgQVWlXq6fChdy4sKYuyfwluFeP5XJFbLv_SZ6G8TB1/s400/IMG_1063X.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"></div>

Travel: Copenhagen's Kastrup Sea Baths

Copenhagen's Kastrup Sea Baths, designed by White Arkitektur AB and built in 2004, are a delighful invitation to take a dip. And we needed enticement the day we visited in August, during a month in which the Danes had been complaining about their cooler-than-usual summer. There was one other couple …

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