Interior features New Zealand interior architecture and design across workplace, corporate, retail, hospitality, education, public, and other interior commercial environments.
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IMPERIAL TABLE • Red Wall 1939 is a new Chinese fine-dining restaurant in Auckland, with a fascinating history and an equal measure of design intent.
LADY LUCK • Miss Fortune’s offers an oasis of colour and graphic extravaganza to an industrial zone in Wellington.
NEW LIFE FOR TAURANGA’S POST OFFICE
CORENET SYMPOSIUM
DESIGNER INTERVIEW • Dutch-born and Victoria University of Wellington-educated Sabine Marcelis has created a strong industrial design brand in Europe.
THE ROOM
Capital character • Wellington’s cityscape and natural textures are brought inside Deloitte’s new headquarters.
DESIGN STATEMENT • Christopher Davidson was tasked with creating a mural inside the Deloitte HQ in Wellington (reproduced below). Here, he talks about the objective and the process.
SO/ PLAYFUL • A new boutique hotel in Auckland takes on a volcanic theme and a celebrity fashion designer to inject personality and a lot of oomph.
On a good buzz • As the final touches are put on its hospitality area, the B:Hive at Smales Farm on Auckland’s North Shore is, by all accounts, a success story for its owners and its tenants.
MATERIAL SYMPHONY • Danish interior designer David Thulstrup shares some of the secrets behind his meteoric rise and enviable client list.
YOU’VE BEEN FRIENDED • Tracey Ingram explores a few interiors that highlight the importance of designing communal spaces in the age of social media.
Urban laboratories: What we can learn from airports • As the improvements to Auckland International Airport and its surrounds come closer to completion, the executive director of Aerial Futures, Andrés Ramirez, ponders the significance of this typology.
Developer focus • Federico Monsalve sat down with Scott Pritchard, CEO of Precinct Properties, to talk about the industry and the upcoming Commercial Bay project.
Interiors at an exhibition • Auckland’s Objectspace gallery is set to open The Room, a daring exhibition of commissioned, residential interior installations designed by four top New Zealand designers, curators and artists. Federico Monsalve spoke to its two curators, Kim Paton and Rufus Knight, about the impetus for the show.
Speaking in three dimensions • in:situ, the New Zealand Institute of Architect’s biennial conference, took place at Auckland’s Spark Arena in February. We chatted to some of its guest speakers.
Chip off the new block: Blockchain and the building sector • What does blockchain mean for the construction sector? Will it change the ways in which we manage building assets? How will distribution and supply be altered by new digital technologies? Academics from the University of Auckland, Dermott McMeel and Alex Sims, have begun researching just such questions. Federico Monsalve sat down with them to glean an early indication of their process and thinking.
CLIMATE CHANGE: ACTION FROM THE GROUND UP • Children around the globe are following the lead of 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg by striking from school to prompt their governments to make radical responses to climate change. But what would a radical response look like and what is needed to combat the changes we are now facing as the earth heats up?
SUBURBAN SPACES • The common garage has a rich past. Here, Simon Bush-King evaluates a book that takes a serious look at the unimposing room attached to our personal sanctums.
BOOKS • Here are some of the books currently gracing our shelves.
PERSONAL SPACE • Michael Leng, senior interior designer at Wingate Architects,...
