Explore architecture
Ostend Road House by Bull O’Sullivan Architects.
Photo by Simon Devitt
News, insights and interviews about architecture and design in New Zealand and further afield.
Quick links
![](/media/2711/stu.jpg)
Stuart Gardyne
2015 Gold Medal interview
I quite like the modesty of those little houses in Karori and Ngaio. There’s something far more captivating about achieving something with a paucity of means.
![](/media/2710/tessa-square.jpg)
Tessa Forde
Open category winner, Warren Trust Architectural Writing Awards
Nepal and Christchurch have since become connected in their own way. I felt uneasy in Kathmandu; I could guess at the damage even the smallest earthquake could do. I was used to looking out for it.
![](/media/1815/1_0000_layer-10-web.jpg)
Patrick Clifford
2014 Gold Medal interview
When we started out, we spent years hoping we’d get some work, and it was tough. We worked incredibly hard, and I think we still work very diligently. I don’t think we’ve ever got to a point where we take work for granted. There are a lot of good people working out there, and we respect that. We don’t think we get anything as of right.
![](/media/1283/pip.jpg)
Pip Cheshire
2013 Gold Medal interview
I’m interested in a kind of clarity, a paring back. That, coupled with an acknowledgement that there are no singular answers anymore. I have no truck with revisited modernism, the kind of neo-modernism that’s going around. We’ve lost the modernist social agenda, so modernism has been disempowered. It has become a style thing.
Stuart Gardyne
![](/media/2711/stu.jpg)
Tessa Forde
![](/media/2710/tessa-square.jpg)
Patrick Clifford
![](/media/1815/1_0000_layer-10-web.jpg)
Pip Cheshire
![](/media/1283/pip.jpg)