DINZ Designers Speak - Two Plus One - Christchurch

Designers Speak - Two Plus One - Christchurch

Conversations and insights that may lead to new views...or not!

Design Firm: Xcite Architects - Malcolm Taylor
Title: Designing Inside Out
Soundbite: ...is Interior Architecture part of the NZ Culture?...

Design Firm: Wingate + Farquhar - David Wingate
Title: Over a Wine
Soundbite: Understanding the brief and protecting our clients from themselves - or not?

Design Firm: Jasmax - Alastair Hood
Title: The Project with 200 Clients
 Soundbite: Designing a design studio - walking the talk

Presenters

Malcolm Taylor - Xcite Architects

Director of Xsite Architects, Malcolm Taylor was a senior design Architect at JASMAX for 9 years and worked with Bossley Cheshire Architects before his company was established.

Xsite Architects has grown to a team of 5, working on a large range of projects, both in the field of Commercial, Education, Marine Interiors, Commercial Interiors, Residential; high density, new and private renovations.

Xsite Architects received the NZIA National supreme award in 2005 for a beach house in Piha, along with a string of NZIA branch awards over the past ten years. The 5 best awards have been achieved from 1998 have also been keenly cherished.

Malcolm has been a Tutor at Unitec from 2000 – 2004 and has had a keen interest in Architecture education both at Unitec and Auckland School of Architecture
Malcolm graduated with Bachelor of Architecture in 1987 from the Auckland School of Architecture. Among other things, Malcolm has been a part time professional Musician for 20 years, playing with artists such as Nathan Haines, Bo Runga, Beaver, Hattie St John, Greg Johnson and Peter Urlich.

Malcolm is also a keen “weekend builder” spending a lot of time renovating his Church in St Heliers.

Chiara Corbelletto's sculptural work of 114 inflatable modules, commissioned for the Piha House 2005 NZIA Supreme Award.

David Wingate PDINZ - Wingate + Farquhar

David Wingate is an architect with a wide understanding of architectural design and management in New Zealand and the UK. Recently David has developed particular expertise in residential buildings and interiors, and has further experience in commercial buildings, interiors, public buildings, healthcare and retail projects.

David strives to produce high quality design solutions to meet clients' needs in all respects: visually, environmentally, technically, on time and on budget. David’s design method involves close dialogue with the client to explore and develop the brief and ensure that the design grows out of a shared understanding of the objectives. In this way the design can bridge the gap between what is desirable and what is possible.

Alasdair Hood FDINZ - Jasmax

Alasdair is an Associate Director of Jasmax leading the interiors and workplace team in the Christchurch studio he co-established in late 2008.
 
His last major project prior to heading south was leading the interior team designing Jasmax’s new Auckland studio in Parnell. Arguably a “poisoned chalice”, Alasdair saw the project as a unique opportunity to test and further develop much of the strategy and thinking applied to many of the workplace projects the studio has designed.

The Christchurch office has grown considerably since its inception with a range of interesting projects in a variety of phases. Alasdair is convinced that the success of the studio is in large part attributable to the focus they’ve placed on hiring the right mix of people and establishing a culture that clients feel immediately comfortable engaging with.

When he’s not working on other people’s projects, Alasdair is head down on his own – a house in the “Christchurch style” set amongst 2 acres of somewhat dilapidated garden on the plains. After more than a decade working on projects for other people, the opportunity to restore and refurbish such a unique property for himself is a treat (that doesn’t always feel like a treat). There’s nothing he relishes more than getting his hands in the dirt or onto the drop saw to fashion another piece of the enormous puzzle.

Supported by Dulux

Posted on: April 30, 2010