Rog on Beauty
Airport terminal on the rocks?
Love it or loath it, ‘The Rock’ at Wellington Airport, welcomes visitors to a unique place, with a unique building. It doesn’t directly add any more visitors to the airport, but it does make their arrivals and departures more memorable and this is clearly its purpose. 30 years ago we did the same thing for […]
Urban Designspeak
Since its publication in 1971, Danish Urban Designer Jan Gehl’s “Life between Buildings” has become the bible of Urban Design. Like Gideon’s bibles finding their way into hotel rooms , Gehl’s book is at every town planning department in the western world. It’s been reported that as a young architect working in the suburbs he […]
A Bog Blog
Toilets are by necessity private and hygienic places. But ever since their probably Egyptian inception, there has sometimes been a design element, to this unglorified but essential element of our built environment. They generally don’t rise above the purely functional at most Service Stations, schools, theatres, offices or even at medical centres. Happily though some […]
Design by Delight
Who knew that there was a Daffodil Capital of New Zealand, let alone that it is Carterton? Fresh from visiting UK friends staying among the grapes in Martinborough, Miss M and I stumbled across the annual Daffodil Festival. How joyful it was. Here was small town New Zealand still full of optimism. The best book […]
Verandah speak
Springtime came to Wellington in all its glory last weekend and after a quick trip to the City Market, Miss M and I celebrated with a picnic at Battle Hill, near Pauatahanui. I thought this may be is where architects meet with the Porirua District Council, but no way: it was far too idyllic. New […]
A colour filled evening
I had a rare and wonderful serendipity experience last night. The annual Resene Colour Awards were on, and as the office had not made a submission this year, I thought the least I could do was wear my yellow leather jacket for the occasion. Years ago Dulux had a similar function. The MC on that […]
Rog on Beauty
After 40 years in business, I’ve decided it’s time to leave the communication stone-age so have set up a website. Not content with doing things by halves, I’ve decided to also enter the mysterious (to me that is) world of blogging. I’ve been told it’s a cheaper alternative to holding court at various Wellington drinking […]
