There’s a hint in the name – Femmely Velues – which references the fact that this is the first all-women project team to have built a folly amongst the nine flights of fancy constructed to date.
On a deeper dive, it transpires that ‘femme’ alludes to the role of the matriarch in knowledge-sharing, and that ‘velues’ was originally a loose play on ‘family values’ but with a Kiwi twang.
This year’s team, made up of Claire Ford, Elise Cautley and Jennifer Gao of Yellowhammer Services, Architecture HDT and Jack McKinney Architects, respectively, joined forces to design a concept based on the fabric crafts they’d been taught by their mothers. “We were
