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ARCHITECTS LOVE METAPHORS. Lay readers of architects’ design statements or, especially, architects’ award citations, might think the profession has gone trappo over tropes. Why so much figurative speech? In part, metaphoric usage is a habit, but it’s also a sign of good intentions. Architects talk and write this way because they are trying to communicate…

WE KNOW WAIHEKE ISLAND is a real estate agent’s wet dream but sociologists must be quite fond of it as well. It can’t be that often that they see a class system recrudescing in real time. For decades Waiheke was sufficiently remote from elevation of the Hudson-Young Auckland and sufficiently deprived of infrastructure to House,…