048per_HOUSELIFE: ARCHITECTURE FROM ORDINARY POV

As we shoot 048per_ we are reminded of HouseLife. The first project of the Living Architectures series, Koolhaas Houselife portrays one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture. The film lets the viewer enter into the house’s daily intimacy through the stories and daily chores of Guadalupe Acedo, the housekeeper, and the other people who look after the building. Pungent, funny and touching.

WHAT_architecture 23-Mar-2015
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048per_ALL BLACK HOUSE

WHAT_architecture 21-Mar-2015
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048per_Architecture as Selfie backdrop

Tourist attraction site AttractionTix analysed social media (Instagram) to find mentions of travel hotspots alongside the world ‘selfie’ so as to compile a list of the most popular places to pose for a self-taken self portrait. At the top of the list was the Eiffel Tower in Paris, with more than 10,700 posts found so far in 2015, ahead of Disney World in Orlando, Florida and the world’s tallest building – the Burj Khalifa – in Dubai. Trending not far behind is our Villa OP in Auckland…

WHAT_architecture 10-Feb-2015
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048per_GOOGLE EARTH FLIGHT 048per TO AUCKLAND

WHAT_architecture 17-Nov-2014
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048per_BOOK RELEASE AS FILM TRAILER

Peter Walker is a writer and his book The Fox Boy tells the story of Ngataua Omahuru, a Maori child remade as a mini-English 19th Century gentlemen. Emily Perkins in her review of The Fox Boy for The Guardian wrote: “The title suggests one of those books about a feral child abandoned by its parents and raised by surprisingly tender beasts: a fairy-tale mix of the salacious and anthropological that strikes a chord as far back as Romulus and Remus. Peter Walker’s book tells a different version of this story: not of abandonment but of abduction, not of survival despite the forces of wilderness but survival despite the forces of “civilisation”. His story is that of the child taken as hostage of war, as trophy and potential slave – with the British-empire spin of improving it through exposure to an allegedly superior culture.” I, personally, have always interpreted artist Lisa Reihana’s Dandy (from her Digital Marae series) in the mould of Walker’s Fox Boy. Bloomsbury Publishing now presents Peter Walker’s Some Here Among Us. In doing so, the publisher presents us with a book release as a film trailer! We start to wonder if with the imminent inauguration of 048per_ in Auckland in January 2015, an architectural opening could be transformed away from the cutting of ribbons towards the animated story of ‘how a building come into being’.

WHAT_architecture 17-Nov-2014
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048per_PICTURE WINDOWISM

In a perfect world, all our windows would look onto distant views of sunset beaches. I recently saw an East London (Homerton) flat that was being sold whereby the view from the only window in the living space was to the back of a parapet and drain some 300mm away [insert image]. That view looked positively macroscopic. It wasn’t the lack of distance here that is the problem… more the tedium of the visual content: drain membrane barely embracing plaster. So WHAT_windows recognise, as in this Ponsonby Villa in NZ, that even seeing something 1m from your master bedroom still could be something good… personally I would add some vines to the fence. Or get some street art graf treatment.