2011-03-31 11:08:12 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
Vacant office space in Wellington has been on the rise and a report by commercial and industrial property service provider Darroch doesn’t lighten the mood. According to its 2010 market overview, vacancy numbers are predicted to rise from 12.5 percent in December 2010 to 16.9 percent to December 2011. Not the best news, but a project by Kiwi filmmaker Colin Hodson, is set to bring a bit of light back into a currently empty office building on Wellington City’s The Terrace.
2011-01-11 11:23:38 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
Auckland’s inner city retail spaces are set to receive a floral lift as part of the upcoming Auckland Arts Festival. As part of the festival, the Suburban Floral Association will work in Auckland’s inner city shopping area to bring floral blooms into a recession hit inner city shopping area, in a project called ‘Shopfront’. The project is the first venture into Auckland for Wellington Public art programme Letting Space.
2010-12-14 14:16:50 // Deirdre Robert
// The Idealog Blog
When public art programme ‘Letting Space’ commissioned Kim Paton to create an art project in an empty retail space—themed around artists exploring the commercial environment—she struck upon a free supermarket idea, bringing together community groups, artists, schools, the council and local businesses to help effect change.
