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Meet Tom Kundig

“I often work with elemental materials such as steel, concrete, wood and glass in their raw states,” says Tom Kundig, Principal / Owner / Founder of bi-coastal US design firm, Olson Kundig.

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“You have to make sustainable technologies a no-brainer.”

“So much of the environmental and decarbonisation space is filled with messages like ‘you should’, but willpower can only take you so far".

Design

“We want to be the best, not the biggest.”

“Our team shares a common goal of becoming New Zealand’s waterproofing market leaders because of our superior products and our stand out service, not because of our size,” says Allco Waterproofing CEO, Dean Harper.

Architecture

“It’s what’s inside that counts.”

“No one looks at a cabinet and sees the screws or the hinges. They see the pantry that’s making life easier for their family and they feel that emotional benefit,” says GM of Sales and Marketing for Häfele, Simon Lount.

Design

“Now is our time.”

“There’s a huge demand for plasterboard in New Zealand right now,” says Elephant Plasterboard owner and Managing Director, Kevin van Hest.

Architecture

“We don’t compete. We complement each other.”

“Our growth in the last 12 months has been phenomenal,” says Jade Patel, CEO of Project Floors New Zealand.  During that time, Jade has been based at The Design Hub in Takapuna.

Design

“We don’t make projects that could go just anywhere.”

“Our work is in public art that connects with people and resonates with environments,” says Jeanine Centuori, co-founder of UrbanRock Design.

Design

“Every space can have a profound impact.”

“Sometimes when you enter a space you can really feel something,” says French-born Mexican architect Paul Cremoux of Paul Cremoux Studio.

Architecture

“The industry is in catch-up mode.”

“Insulation is quite topical now because of the recent H1Energy Efficiency building code changes,” says Autex New Zealand Managing Director, Rob Woolner.

Architecture

Meet Jessamyn Davis and Andy Lantz

As they operate at the edge of contemporary design, the pair acknowledges a recent paradigm shift in what we expect from our physical spaces. “Everything is different,” Andy says.

Architecture

“If you have 0 ideas, you have a bad project. If you have 10 ideas, you also have a bad project.”

“I don’t know what I’m doing at the precise moment when I’m designing. I just let the freedom come and, at some point, it aligns” says French-born Mexican Architect, Ludwig Godefroy.

Architecture

“You’re buying an excellent product; you should have an excellent design around it.”

“I help architects to better understand our gas fireplaces and the interactions between them and the building materials they’re selecting,” says Richard Miller, Architectural Advisory Lead for Escea.

Architecture

“I’m challenging the historical belief that our built spaces are immortal monuments.”

“The purpose of my work is to make buildings easy to change,” says XFrame Co-Founder and PhD Candidate Gerard Finch.

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