Bruce Goff's Crystal Chapel

Bruce Goff’s luminous Crystal Chapel, designed in 1949 and sadly unbuilt, but recently modelled digitally so you too can see the genius …

[Hat tip SOCIETY OF ORGANIC ARCHITECTS]
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Recent Project: Howick renovation

 

Among the many projects currently in the office is this one, a renovation of a mid-century modern in Howick, offering opportunities to rethink New Zealand’s modernist heritage, and to undo  some of the later “modernisations.” And, like every renovation project, it involves a bit of untangling …

Recent Project: Remuera Bungalow

Among the projects on the boards here is this one, untangling an existing Remuera bungalow and better connecting its occupants to sun, to views, and to its difficult site.

It's always fun teasing out the hidden potential of Auckland's many California Bungalows, too often far too little exploited...

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Bruce Goff, architect

While I was visiting Canberra recently (as my more astute readers spotted), I met up with inspirational practitioner of organic achitecture Laurie Virr — to the delight of both of us.

Bruce Goff has been an architectural hero for us both over many years, but never having heard him speak, I was delighted to find that Laurie had a video of Goff talking about and visiting many of the homes he’d designed: homes as unique as the characters he’d designed them for.

The video quality is poor, but I find every minute thrilling!

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