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How architects design for how you actually live

Ideas & Perspectives

How architects design for how you actually live

A well-designed home is not only shaped by how it looks, but by how it quietly supports the life unfolding inside it. Before a home becomes a floor plan, a palette or a set of construction drawings, it begins as something far more human: a way of living.

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Inside the architectural practice designing from first principles

People & Practice

Inside the architectural practice designing from first principles

Having worked across New Zealand, the Pacific, Africa and the UK, Graham and Kate Price have built a collaborative practice grounded in first principles thinking. Designing across continents has a way of sharpening an architect’s perspective. For husband-and-wife duo Graham and Kate Price of First Principles Architects & Interiors, that experience has shaped a practice built on curiosity, adaptability and close attention to place.

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Mat Macmillan gave himself permission to create and designed a sculptural light pendant in the process

Materials & Craft

Mat Macmillan gave himself permission to create and designed a sculptural light pendant in the process

In his home workshop just outside Tauranga, Mat Macmillan started experimenting with plywood and paper. His creativity shaped a light design that’s been illuminating homes across New Zealand for over a decade.

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