Friday, September 2, 2011

Friday, April 29, 2011

Street Art & Window Shopping



Make Us Proud - NZOC Olympic Campaign

NZOC Olympic campaign launch for the London Olympic Games - Make Us Proud - moments that make us proud to be Kiwis.... here's one from me...

David Lange's Oxford Union Speech - March 1985 / ... and a more recent piece by Tiki Tane:


Spiral Joy


Love this material palette... & the spiral stair beyond (source: unknown)

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Autumn Textures


One of our most treasured rituals is a morning walk in Western Park with Eddie followed by a coffee in the courtyard at the local Cafe - a real little community & a great way to start the day.... at the moment we are experiencing this beautiful autumn light - the texture & shadows on the neighbouring wall (above) is rekindling my love of concrete as a material...

... the aging of the material is only crafted over time... the weathering of the carpark walls in the background of this image..


the colours of an in-situ wall found in a carpark in New Plymouth....


... and the combinations of stone, concrete, greenery (the natural) against the clarity of glass, white walls & strong geometric lines....



... the stunning balance of textures in Eduardo Souta de Moura's work - magic, one would imagine with the changing of the seasons

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Off the blog... The Bulwagan Foundation Trust

The Bulwagan Foundation Trust is a cause to celebrate humanity... they are embarking on a quest to develop a centre, a "hall" ('Bulwagan') - a community facility in Wellington for Filipinos in NZ

... architecture as a vehicle to bring people across cultures together - good luck for the project!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Ponsonby's Orlando??





we ran into this sculptural moment one morning walking in Western Park (itself a mid-19th century distinguished open space).... & immediately thought of Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando - the scene where Tilda Swinton (Orlando) rides into post-modernist England on the motorbike & sidecar with her daughter/  everything shaped in white, evidencing form & stark drapery of that era


we await the moment of unveiling for this plastic cover & what it will poetically tell us about the future....