In Listen, Peter Clegg urges architects to prioritise consideration of embodied carbon in material usage. We report from Copenhagen where practices such as Lendager Group are championing upcycled building materials, visit a house made of hempcrete from Practice Architecture and Material Cultures, and explore the rise of biomaterials like mycelium and seaweed plastic.
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This April edition is Blueprint's Materials issue, and it's packed full of them - from the aluminium fins of Rand Elliott Architects' Oklahoma Contemporary (our cover star) to the world's first timber stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects. Over one million trees have been planted here, and some endangered wildlife, such as the Weka, thrive. The largest private sanctuary of its kind in New Zealand (90% of the land has been donated to a national trust) has so much going for it, apart from the sheer gorgeousness of its interiors. The lodge recently opened its doors to guests, with four suites and two cottages overlooking Wanaka's valleys and peaks. It is here on several thousand acres of rugged slopes studded with spruce, tussock, and manuka trees that South African record producer Robert “Mutt” Lange built a private eco sanctuary, managed by MajorDomo concierge services.
It is about an hour’s drive from the more popular Queenstown, where much of The Lord of the Rings was filmed. Wanaka, despite being a popular ski and summer resort in the Otago region of South Island, is well known for its natural beauty: The Crown mountain range that forms the backdrop of this ski town is spiky and rugged. It is possible that no other property in the country offers such a complete immersion in nature as this 136,000-acre ridgeline homestead and eco-sanctuary. The living room of a cottage at Mahu Whenua in Wanaka at dusk. “One strand is a kind of ‘organic minimalism’ or ‘organic reductivism,’” he says, “which proposes a spatial structure of discipline and clarity, leavened with the warmth and integrity of real material, including boulders pulled from the ground, plasters mixed with straw or shell and sand, precisely proportioned but roughly finished timbers and concrete cast into rough sawn forms.” While many visitors go to New Zealand for the spine of mountain ranges, the vineyards, and the sounds, including Marlborough and Milford, there is a distinct architecture scene that has started to emerge.ĭesigner Nat Cheshire, whose work includes The Landing, a luxury retreat and vineyard in the country’s Bay of Islands, says there are a number of styles emerging in the country, particularly in the design aesthetics of the luxury retreat.
New Zealand’s luxury lodges have gained a reputation for being architectural marvels, with sprawling mansions built from locally sourced materials and often located on the margins of alpine lakes with stunning views.
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