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When we’re not designing or creating, we’re thinking. A lot. We love to think and Lisa loves to write. Here, she shares her latest musings with you.

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The Architecture of Flow & Intuition

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The Open-Door Philosophy. How Thermal Stability Redefines the New Zealand Coastal home

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Balancing Your Unconstrained Vision with Your Investment Reality

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Nov 15, 2021

TIDA Awards 2021

The Beachlands house has just received a Highly commended in the 2021 TIDA NZ Architect designed homes awards.

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Sep 21, 2021

Construction & Covid

How do you mitigate risk in a Pandemic?The risk when you are building is not only in terms of health, but for many construction projects at the moment, it relates to cost and time as well.

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Sep 9, 2021

Homestyle and Metro Magazines

Look out for the new Metro magazine (Restaurant of the Year edition), and Homestyle Aug/Sept 21 at the supermarket when you next pick up your groceries!

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Aug 1, 2021

New Architecture Studio Location - Remuera

We are pleased to announce that Donnell Day has a new studio location.

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Jun 9, 2021

Sampleboards

We have been doing a fair few sampleboards lately.

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