Street life
Site constraints often produce the most interesting buildings, necessity being the mother of invention. The design of this NZIA award-winning house in Brooklyn, Wellington, on a steep section just 10 metres wide but 43 metres long, has been sculpted by the surrounding topography and is in conversation with the many walkways zig-zagging up and down the hillside.
Wellington’s initial grid pattern took little account of local conditions, and what were streets on a plan often ended up as
