Friday, November 28, 2008

Clubbing at the Hills - Michael Hill's Clubhouse by Pattersons Architects, New Zealand



Patterson Associates are arguably New Zealand’s most internationally recognised architects. Andrew Patterson himself has been described as the “virtuosi of New Zealand architecture” by renowned British photographer, writer and style visionary Herbert Ypma. His firm, Patterson Associates Ltd, is the only New Zealand architectural practice to be published in Phaidon’s 10 x 10 book of the world’s best architects. At the core expression of Pattersons design is the term "appurtuant" – an old Saxon word which means to ‘’belong naturally’’. And yes, their masterful design for Hill's Clubhouse in the Wakatipu Basin in New Zealand's Southern Alps definitely belongs naturally.

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