A meeting of minds prompts some garden-variety philosophising.
Recently, I met up with a group of my one-time design students, some of whom I haven’t seen for more than a decade. One of them, a young woman now possessed of a slightly intimidating style, albeit evolved from her younger self, gave me initial cause to worry as she sat next to me at the end of a long table. What might we talk about after the initial enquiries into health, current occupation and location? Of course, we could have revelled in ‘remember when’ but since we weren’t in the same class – instead I was her teacher – that dynamic was a slightly challenging one for a Sunday afternoon at the pub. I needn’t have worried. Our conversation quickly and naturally segued into what was really top of both of our minds on a summer day: our gardens. We got talking about fig trees – of which we are both fans – and then the wider topic of gardens. I settled into a relaxed afternoon.
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The Past Is Present
In exhibitions at public galleries around the country, artists reflect on our collective, individual and cultural histories.
Why I Walk Carl Douglas
How the experience of walking reveals our world to us and informs our sense of our place in it.
My Favourite Building Chlöe Swarbrick
Built on Auckland’s Karangahape Road in the 1920s, St Kevin’s Arcade has served as vocational inspiration and a meeting place for the Green MP since she was a teenager.
Humble Special
PAC Studio designs a home on a tiny budget in the bush above the Kaipara Harbour.
Modern Love
Assembly Architects draws on lightweight Californian modernism to craftan elegant mountain retreat.
Family Tree
On a leafy site in the Waikato, Tane Cox crafts a subtle home for three generations
LOW PROFILE
Sometimes, strict covenants can be a blessing in disguise.
Fine Line
A house in a vineyard by Stuart Gardyne shows country living need not be rustic.
Elegant Shed
Ben Daly rehabilitates a farm building with a long family history on the Canterbury Plains.
Perfect Pitch
An encampment by an inlet casually inhabits land at Tawharanui.