4 pool designs you’ll want to dip your toes into
22 January 2016
As summer strikes, we’ve uncovered four stylish ways of taking to the waters, with pool designs that make outdoor living easy
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A small Auckland backyard becomes a tropical paradise
17 January 2016
Fearon Hay transforms a petite Auckland back yard into a summery paradise A small Auckland backyard becomes a tropical paradise Poorly designed pools can feel as if they’ve severed a back yard in two, a lose-lose situation that results in an unpleasant sense of constriction
A pool and pavilion by Pattersons architects
29 December 2015
A pool and pavilion by Pattersons on Canterbury’s Banks Peninsula is a getaway all its own It is a modern pool in the grounds of a historic house. The location is Annandale, a sheep and cattle station on Canterbury’s Banks Peninsula with which regular readers
Q&A with landscape designer Xanthe White
16 December 2015
Xanthe White has won a clutch of landscape design awards and written two books, but she’s about to tackle a rather more personal project: her own garden. Xanthe, what makes a good garden now? It’s about relationships with the landscape and the person. The designer
At home with the world’s most famous garden designer
20 November 2015
He has become the most famous garden designer in the world, yet he still opens his own property to the public a few days a week in summer and is happy to show people around it personally At home with the world’s most famous garden
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Timber enclave
Bounded by farmland, and beneath a simple gabled form, this home is designed around layered moments of unexpected eccentricity. Surrounded by Cantabrian farmland, the home of two former Christchurch locals delivers unexpected eccentricities within a traditional gabled form. Head southwest out of Christchurch and the
Three by the pond
AW Architects has designed a house in Bendemeer with three, very distinct volumes and equally diverse personalities: the birdwatcher, the socialite, and the sheep shearer who’s scrubbed up well.