A wonderful survey of New Zealand architecture from the 1950s and 60s featuring archival photographs from the time. Features many Christchurch homes including Paul Pascoe’s Graham House in South Shore (pictured) that was given planning exemption due to its ‘experimental’ roof.
…continue reading Looking for the Local.
Having trained in architecture in New Zealand, Griffiths travelled to England in 1933 and the following year was awarded a travelling scholarship to the United States. He returned to New Zealand prior to the war and commenced private practice in 1945.
…continue reading George Davidson Griffiths (1907-1973)
A lovely example of the continental L-shape floorplans brought to Christchurch by Ernst Plischke in the late 1930s. These houses introduced multi-purpose living areas and full height glass opening onto courtyard gardens. This one, built in 1947, looks particularly well-restored and is a credit to the owners (orange door aside).
…continue reading 25a Cashmere Rd. Maling House. Pascoe and Hall.
Designed in the 1960′s, this two bedroom Redcliffs home still looks a million bucks. Auctioned earlier this year by Harcourts, the new owners have done the right thing and removed the bright blue balcony blinds. As you drive along Main Rd make sure you wave a thank you.
…continue reading 21 Glenstrae Road. Architect Unknown.
Featured in NZ Womens Weekly, 1963. “Mrs Selwyn Carson told Peter Beaven she admired the ‘cots’ at Akaroa and wanted ‘a modern interpretation of a traditional stye cottage with a verandah’. Mrs Carson, a doctor’s wife with four children, had also requested that the house be childproof or more specifically boy-proof.”
…continue reading 16 Dyers Pass Rd. Carson House. Peter Beaven.
Richard Blunt designed symmetrical pavillions and window box are superb. It’s a primo location down by the Avon and shares the river bank with Peter Beaven’s family House, Warren & Mahoney’s Carlton Mill Flats and a nice, newer number from Wilson & Hill.
…continue reading Carlton Mill. Trengrove and Blunt.
This is Maurice Mahoney’s house, designed in 1966, which he still occupies. The house sits in a Fendalton cul de sac and looks fantastic (despite the Toyota Echo in the drive, which we tried to push away, but the handbrake was on and the doors locked). The Mahoney house utlilises many of the Warren & Mahoney hallmarks: white painted concrete blocks, exposed structure and steeply-pitched gabled roofs
…continue reading 8 Pentlow Pl. M E Mahoney House. Warren & Mahoney.
Designed 1966, earlier photos suggest the garage has been subsequently widened to fit two (expensive) cars. Either way she’s a stunner, and in a similar style to her Fendalton buddies the M E Mahoney House and M B Warren House.
…continue reading 2 Makora St. Schneideman House. Warren & Mahoney.
Designed in 1960 by Miles Warren for his parents, this house is the best known of a series of projects later dubbed the “Pixie†houses. Picking up on both historical cottage patterns and then contemporary Danish models, these houses were composed of crisp boxes of concrete block, with punched openings and no eaves or verges on their gabled roofs.
…continue reading 9 Queens Ave. M B Warren House. Warren & Mahoney.
We like this house. The two small front pavilions open onto a lovely moss-covered garden. The house is bordered by a stream and a red Japanese bridge gives access to the garage. In the middle of it all is a courtyard swimming pool.
…continue reading 16 Coldstream Ct. Minson, Henning-Hansen & Dines.
