Gate House
Wellington’s hillsides are famously dotted with the modernist creations of one of Austria’s greatest mid-century architects: Ernst Plischke’s white or pale blue-painted, flat-roofed pavilions can be seen popping above ridgelines or attached to hills around the city. Last year, in Thorndon – just a short walk from Parliament – I had the joy of living in a little Plischke gem.
From the street you wouldn’t exactly call it pretty, sitting as angular as a shipping container above bunker-like garages at the end of an avenue of elegant bay villas and tile-roofed cottages. But as you enter, its
