Along with being Chair of the Auckland branch , he was a design collaborator on one of the city ’ s most lauded and recognisable projects ... Henry Crothers of LandLAB has had a busy year .
18 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AOTEAROA
Postcard from the edge
Text by Justin Foote
Along with being Chair of the Auckland branch , he was a design collaborator on one of the city ’ s most lauded and recognisable projects ... Henry Crothers of LandLAB has had a busy year .
Henry Crothers of LandLAB was one of the award-winning Kiwis at the World Architecture Festival , picking up a win in the Transportation – Completed Buildings category in conjunction with Monk Mackenzie Architects , for Te Ara I Whiti .
We caught up with Henry on his return to New Zealand to talk WAF and his award-winning project .
JF : Tell us a little bit about Te Ara I Whiti .
HC : Te Ara I Whiti , which was a design collaboration between LandLAB and Monk Mackenzie Architects , translates , basically , to ‘ light path ’.
It transforms a redundant piece of motorway infrastructure into a playful and sculptural piece of cycling infrastructure threaded through Auckland ’ s inner city motorway junction .
The design intent of the project was to create a bold , graphic intervention at the city scale that