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Designer profile: Tash McIntosh Moorman
Tash McIntosh Moorman is a born-and-bred North Shore, Auckland, girl. The interior designer’s Northcote Point home, a 1920s’ bungalow, features in Urbis issue 82. We chatted to her about her career and...
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Architect profile: Tim Dorrington
Tim Dorrington is an Auckland-based architect, whose portfolio features many residential homes. The 40-year-old started out designing in his spare bedroom, before forming his own firm, Dorrington...
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The monuments men
Joining forces following the catastrophic earthquakes of February 2011, designer Tobin Smith, 36, and architect Blair Paterson, 43, merged their Christchurch design and architectural practices to form...
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Amsterdam: i29 interior architects
Jasper Jansen and Jeroen Dellensen have a lot in common. They both grew up in Amsterdam, they each have two children of the exact same age and they both went to cabinetmaking school. That’s where they...
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Architect profile: Stefan Antoni
Stefan Antoni knows Cape Town. He was born there, he studied there and he now runs world-renowned architecture practice SAOTA Architects there. Antoni designed a house in his hometown which features in...
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Architect profile: ODR Architects
John Mercuri (45) and Steve McKellar (35) are the Australian architects behind a set of urban Melbourne townhouses featured in Urbis issue 83. The duo, who founded Of Diverse Research (ODR) Architects...
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Inside Story: Rachel Carley
Park up at the end of a suburban Mount Albert road lined with one-storeyed bungalows, wander down a long driveway, and you’ll find an utterly unexpected sight; an oddly shaped section covered by an...
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Seattle: John and Frances Smersh
The Smershes have lived and worked in West Seattle for 20 years. “I was born and raised in Seattle and went to college in California; that’s where we met,” explains John. “A couple of years after...
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Seattle: Matthew Stannard
Matthew Stannard moved to Seattle on a whim. “It was recommended by other travellers. It had Boeing. There was talk of a small company called Microsoft doing well. It was a laidback place,” he...
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Architect profile: Paul Clarke
Paul Clarke is the man behind an Omaha Beach house featured inissue 84 of Urbis. The Auckland-based architect of Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects (CCCA) grew up in Dunedin but moved to Auckland to...
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Architect profile: Ian Moore
Ian Moore knows good architecture (take it from us). The Warkworth, Auckland-born architect designed a stunning apartment to be featured in Urbis issue 84. We chatted to the Surry Hills,...
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The world of interiors
It was by happenstance that Liz Seuseu became an architect. The school leaver had been accepted into Elam art school in 1998 when a friend suggested she reconsider. “It’s pretty daunting to decide what...
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Artist profile: Paul Jones
Urbis: You’re an artist living in Brixton, London, how did you end up showing your artworks in New Zealand?Paul Jones: Like a lot of these things, I came to know the gallery through a colleague, Ian...
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Architect profile: David Howell
From Havelock North to New York City; an unexpected move for most, but that’s exactly what architect David Howell did some years ago. Howell, 54, is the architect behind a New York City loft, to be...
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Architectural designer profile: Rachel Higgs
Architectural designer Rachel Higgs is one busy woman. The 34-year-old is a self-proclaimed professional juggler; she’s a mother of two, the founder of architectural design firm Integrado and she...
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Interview: Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Aaron Paterson: Chilean architects, like yourself, Smiljan Radic and Alejandro Aravena, have all in different ways progressed contemporary architecture. What are your thoughts on the architectural...
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Buenos Aires: Segundo Denegri and Marcos Altgelt
After high school, Marcos Altgelt spent a year in New Zealand picking kiwifruit in Te Puke, followed by similar gigs in Tauranga and Hastings. The experience, he says laughing, “taught me endurance!”...
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Southern accents
Urbis:You moved to New Zealand when you were six years old; 30-odd years later, do you see yourself as being Kiwi?José:People say: ‘You’ve been here since you were six, you’re a Kiwi, get over it’. The...
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Q & A: Brian White
Amelia Melbourne-Hayward: How did you get interested in architecture – were you drawn to the profession at a young age?Brian White: I cannot remember a time when I wanted to do anything except...
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Layered approach
The thrill of standing in I.M. Pei’s glass and metal pyramid – immersed in the tectonics of its modernist construction as he gazed out at the grandeur of the Louvre Palace – turned a 14-year-old Joseph...
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