Published bi-monthly, Urbis features stylish interiors, spaces and objects, fascinating places, interesting people, technology updates and car reviews. Through its sophisticated design, Urbis appeals to design-savvy consumers and style-makers, as well as design and architecture professionals.
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The Urbanists • Dunedin: Vogel Street. The historic warehouse precinct has, slowly but confidently, become one of the most significant and unique urban-regeneration developments in the South Island. Here, we meet some of its main players.
Books • Full of zeal and bite, these books make for perfect additions to contemplative evenings spent indoors during the incoming cold.
Things to do • Art and culture are in full bloom this season. Here is an assortment of events to whisk your imagination away.
Ministry of home affairs • Be it home economics, playing catch-up, semi-retirement or loftier goals to take over the world, here is a way to do it in style.
Chisel and stone • Versatile and highly varied, stone has a lengthy tradition of lending the home a sense of mineral permanence and solidity. Here, we select some contemporary interpretations of this fascinating material.
GET THE LOOK ON YOUR WALLS
Technophile • Behold… a cross-section of innovative technology. A snapshot of how electronic intelligence is finding its way into what we wear, how we create and, even, how we sleep. These gadgets promise to enhance our human minds, and aid in our health, creativity and productivity. The future is now.
Urbis Drive • Andrew Kerr trials five luxury SUVs in which to drive an adventurous extra mile.
UnserHaus, our house
Floral haiku • Inspired by ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement, we explore the poetic, brittle nature of species such as hydrangea, misty blue limonium and more. In collaboration with Mark Antonia.
Hot House • A language of movement is expressed in this Great Granny House: as if shaped by the wind, the sun and the ways in which it is used and moved through.
Inside Story • Interior designer Tracey Halliday and her partner, Brendon Cleaver, a graphic designer, open the doors to their London home to show us the objects they love.
Cleaver’s favourite things
Design legacy • The Thorburn’s family business, ECC, has been stylishly making a mark in many of our houses and businesses for 110 years now… It was about time we turned the tables and stepped into their living quarters.
Art in motion • A power couple in the worlds of art and architecture gives us a tour of their heritage home, tell us some of their life stories and show us the art pieces they love.
Pacific art navigator • Peter Brunt, academic and co-curator of a large exhibition of Pacific art currently on display in Paris, opens his Wellington home to show us some of the pieces he surrounds himself with.
Spaces
JEWEL ON THE HILL • Inspired by iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, this home on a hill of Auckland’s North Shore is steeped in family history and luscious detail.
ABOVE THE SEINE • THIS RENOVATED PARIS APARTMENT BRIDGES THREE BUILDINGS FROM TWO DIFFERENT CENTURIES THROUGH IMPECCABLE DÉCOR AND A HEFTY COMIC BOOK COLLECTION.
MAGIC TOUCH • CONCRETE AND TIMBER JOIN FORCES IN THIS HOUSE TO OFFER A VISUAL AND PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE THAT IS CLOSE TO ARCHITECTURAL MAGIC.
IN PERFECT UNISON • A COUPLE AND THEIR EXTENDED FAMILY SHARE A HOME MADE UP OF TWO HOUSES THAT ARE SEPARATE YET DELIGHTFULLY STITCHED TOGETHER.
SET IN STONE • THREE GENERATIONS OF BAUHAUS-INFLUENCED ARTISTS GRACE THIS HILLSIDE HOME.
A GENTLE RHYTHM • THE RENOVATION OF THIS MOUNT ALBERT HOUSE CHAMPIONS BALANCE,...
