If there is a singular defining element of New Zealand’s Sandiland, it’s the dramatic planar roof. An optical illusion of sorts, it hovers above the grounded elements while being discretely supported above horizontal bands of glazing.
Sky and earth are good themes for Sandiland, designed by Studio John Irving Architects, a practice that has contributed several other predominantly low-slung, long-weathering structures to Te Arai, a place where links golf courses and architecture thread neatly through coastal dunescape and pine forests. Uniting each