131 Mt Pleasant Rd. Stebbing House. Warren & Mahoney.
Typically, Warren and Mahoney treated their hill houses quite differently than those down on the plains. The uniformity of the Pixie House design is discarded for more experimental and individual shapes. This early 60s house has additions that extend the original building down the slope.
November 8th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
The new owners are planning to extend the house on this beautiful main elevation, cladding the new addition with Linea. The drawings are complete. They want ‘something more modern’. This is a unique W&M house with some really nice details. Enjoy it now because very shortly – for us purists – it will go beyond the point of no return.
December 18th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Unfortunately this is always the case, the reoccurring abuse of original form is not just limited to Christchurch. But what does seem to be localized is Christchurch’s current obsession with ‘something more modern’ being defined as any cube box clad in Linea. The building boom has seen the collective conservative masses develop areas such as Fendalton and Merivale into something that resembles uncontrolled, ad-hock American New Urbanism. Think ‘The Truman Show’, but here we have cheap, poorly detailed, cramped, Linea weatherboard copies of Thom Craig’s original Black Box dotting the landscape. Conformity certainly has been a double edged sword for Christchurch arch.
February 15th, 2011 at 9:52 am
Meh
