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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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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
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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