"Confessions from a Heritage Architect"
I hope you have found the Petone villa photos to be interesting. This will the last post of villas photographed specifically for the book. What book?
"Confessions from a Heritage Architect" is the title of a 2017 book by New Zealand architect Mona Quinn, which features photographs and stories about New Zealand's character homes, specifically villas and bungalows. The book was a result of road trips Quinn took with photographer Paul Knight to explore these homes and interview their owners.
Content: The book includes interviews and stories from the owners of the villas and bungalows visited during their trips.
Author: Mona Quinn, a heritage architect in New Zealand.
Collaborator: Photographer Paul Knight.
Theme: The book is about preserving and appreciating New Zealand's character homes, particularly villas and bungalows.
Related work: Quinn's work also includes restoring heritage houses and adding modern elements to heritage homes, like an Arts and Crafts house in Hataitai.
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
Levin 1110-1
Levin, photographed this morning (Sunday) from about halfway up the Arapaepae track to the Trig.
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