Bespoke and inspired kitchens: Trends Kitchens
Trends Kitchens has long established itself in New Zealand as a trusted brand with a stellar portfolio, sealed with a gold stamp of approval from thousands of Kiwi homeowners who have had a bespoke kitchen and joinery designed, manufactured and installed by Trends. The individually New Zealand-owned and operated company has been leading […]
New directions: Art Metro
Painting may have been one of the hobbies New Zealanders took up over the course of the lockdown. YouTube tutorials may have sufficed then, but now it’s time to increase those skills further. Enter Art Metro, a creative hub that has produced hundreds of happy students. Metropol caught up with owner Simon Walmisley […]
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 be taking its […]
A poignant profession
Dr Cynric Temple-Camp sees dead people. But rather than some spooky phenomenon, he is one of New Zealand’s leading pathologists and over the years has been tasked with working on many famous and private cases. His latest book The Quick and the Dead is set to hit the streets this month, exposing the fascinating world […]
Selwyn Sounds announces lineup
Popular New Zealand Music Festival Selwyn Sounds in Lincoln is likely the very first major music festival in the world to go on-sale since COVID-19 prevented crowds from gathering. The iconic annual South Island event scheduled for 6 March will next year celebrate its fifth anniversary of entertaining music and festival lovers. The […]
The Influencers: Marian Johnson
Throughout June, the MoA team has been focusing on the launch of Christchurch’s first national healthtech initiative – the HealthTech Supernode Challenge, which went live on 29 June. This is our signal to New Zealand that Ōtautahi Christchurch aims to become the home of NZ healthtech innovation. With a total prize pool across multiple categories […]
The Influencers: Leeann Watson
In the last few weeks, we saw the nation collectively holding its breath as it became apparent that our border control and testing regime was not as rigorous as we thought. It was incredibly disappointing to hear about some people entering the country then disappearing off the radar. New Zealanders have lost lives, jobs […]
Antarctica’s ‘cool’ new redevelopment
Antarctica New Zealand is delighted to announce Leighs Construction Limited has been selected as the preferred main contractor for the Scott Base Redevelopment project. New Zealand owned and operated construction firm Leighs was one of five construction companies to travel to Scott Base in February 2020, with each firm submitting proposals for the […]
Time for a Queenstown staycay! – The Rees
It’s important not to ignore all of the amazing little getaway hotspots that we have in our backyard, especially now that the country is trying to get back on its feet. Make The Rees Hotel Queenstown the destination of your next holiday. It’s easy to see why this hotel has a Qualmark five-star […]
Helping Hospo
You could almost hear the collective sigh of relief from the country’s hospitality operators as we moved into Alert Level 1. Gathering restrictions have been removed and all current COVID-19 rules on businesses and services have lifted. The move to Level 1 means that many hospitality operators can now begin to reclaim a […]
