Arkhé is featured on the latest edition of Business North magazine. I talked with Rosa Watson about my background, design process and receiving this year’s ADNZ awards for Residential New Home and Interiors.
Arkhé is featured on the latest edition of Business North magazine. I talked with Rosa Watson about my background, design process and receiving this year’s ADNZ awards for Residential New Home and Interiors.
Designs evolve. Or so they should.
After many iterations, each with different degrees of success, we ultimately found the fittest solution on a change of typology.
The essence of the original concept remains: to express the emblematic mid-century modernist architecture - resonant to the clients who have spent many years overseas including California, where, arguably, the most iconic manifestations of that architectural style are found.
In this context, Palm Springs Boulevard, Papamoa - referencing the place where that architecture was most made manifest - the adoption of the mid-century style was, paradoxically, an act of dissent against the orthodoxy of the "fast architecture" - prevalent in the area.
Watch this space.