meet the locals

Construction on the final zone of Wellington Zoo’s ‘He Tuku Aroha – Meet the Locals’ starts this week to create a walk-through kea aviary. Photographer David St George recently visited the project. Here are some shots:

 

Small Project Architecture

Our team was excited to receive a Small Project Architecture Award at last week’s NZIA Local Awards in Wellington for the Porirua Kiosk. This small, strategic building is part of a much larger picture of urban revitalisation and in many ways symbolises a new lease of life for Porirua’s city centre.

Citation: “The building accommodates two small food and beverage outlets as well as public bathrooms; amenities which are not typically closely coupled. However, through clever planning and screening this finely crafted ‘object’ works. Timber, glass and metal combine to create a very robust yet welcoming facility in what has been a challenging area. Through the deployment of simple patterns and bright colour, a subtle Pacifica theme is evoked, especially when shadows from the glass canopy fall across the structures timber skin”. 

 

 

 

Making Art with Mr Reynolds

 

On 1 March we posted images and a time-lapse video of our design collaboration with John Reynolds (turning the builders shrink-wrapped cocoon, within which our new studio has been growing, from a negative into a positive). Last night we invited John back for the next stage of the creative process; sampling, editing, inverting the black box to create a multitude of shiny black artworks that, in the next stage of the process, will find a permanent home in our Auckland studio.