Boxing clever
Jan 24, 2021
4 minutes
Photography SIMON WILSON
FOLLOWING ON FROM THEIR EXPERIMENTAL and self-built ‘Dog Box’ in 2013, Ben Mitchell-Anyon and Sally Ogle of Patchwork Architecture have made a virtue of responding to the rigours of marginal hillside sites in Wellington and the challenge of building affordably. The names of their projects have continued to be as arresting and pithy as their architecture. In schemes such as ‘Stealth Bomber’, ‘Pyramid Scheme’ and ‘Hot Box’, their practice has continued to emphasise economy – spatially, structurally, financially and environmentally – with a little wit thrown in for good measure.
In looking for a house to review that would stir me from the grooves of
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