John Scott: Architect

Sunday, July 3, 2016

The New Zealand Home - TVNZ

The New Zealand Home (TV1, 7.30pm). A new local series with a slightly gimmicky premise: architect Ken Crosson introduces sports-jock DJ and host of Our First Home Goran Paladin to the many styles of New Zealand architecture so he can get an idea of what to do with his Birkdale “do-up”. Paladin plays dumb a little too well, but Crosson makes the cool stuff, such as the Martin House in Hastings by Maori architect John Scott, accessible.
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Starts Friday 8 July 2016 On Demand here...

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Gregory O'Brien: Futuna Chapel

Kim Hill talks to painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien about his new book with Nick Bevin, Futuna: Life of a Building. Here...

Futuna: Life of a Building

Since its grand opening in 1961, Wellington's Futuna Chapel – devised by architect John Scott and artist Jim Allen – has held a singular place in New Zealand's cultural history. Futuna: Life of a Building tells the remarkable story of the chapel's inception and construction, and its status beyond as well as within the architectural world. The book also tells the vexed story of the chapel's sale to a developer in 2001 and its subsequent dereliction and, at the eleventh hour, rescue. Since then, the chapel has been transformed from a place of Catholic worship to a non-denominational centre for spiritual, cultural and artistic expression. With essays by Chris Cochran, David Mitchell, Niall McLaughlin, Gregory O’Brien and Nick Bevin and photographs by Paul McCredie and Gavin Woodward, this book takes us into the heart of one of the most dynamic and affecting human-made structures in Oceania. Here...