There’s a time & place

Queenstown has become the go-to getaway for New Zealanders from all the way up north to the bottom of the south. While the town offers amazing attractions year-round, when there are events on, it gives you all the more reason to head there. Metropol has collated some of the most exciting upcoming […]

Cementing a new trend

The historically exterior concrete is creeping indoors and cementing itself as one of 2020’s top interior architecture trends.     THE NEW WHITE As design thinking moves towards more natural aesthetics, the seemingly eternal trend of stark white kitchens may be coming to an end, and hand trowelled- effect concrete may well […]

A compelling package

When the all-new Mazda CX30 made its debut in New Zealand, it was launched online, thanks to COVID-19. However, after waiting patiently, we finally got a taster of Mazda’s new SUV. Mazda says the new CX30 slots perfectly between the CX3 and CX5 in its SUV line-up. However, with the CX3 and […]

Spring Fling!

Spring has long been associated with regeneration, but it’s equally time to update, refresh and create a whole new vibe. We’ve looked forward to the spring 2020 colour palette so you can prepare for a spring fling!   MAKING ME BLUSH: ‘Millennial Pink’ has been a colour craze since the summer of […]

She had a dream

Sometimes all it takes is perfect timing to bring your best achievement into the limelight.     When she was 20, local Christchurch musician Steffany Beck won a grant with the foundation Rise NZ, to record her song I Have a Dream. Now at 30 she has just commercially released her favourite […]

Connecting the dots

It’s long been said that trends are cyclical and when it comes to polka dots, they most certainly are – both in the figurative and literal sense of the expression.     If you’re just now connecting the sartorial dots, you might have realised polka dots are everywhere.   A print perennial, […]