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Award acceptable New Zealand artist Michael O'Sullivan was a agog wrestler in his heyday.
Michael O'Sullivan seems to accept an adamant clad grip on the New Zealand Artist Awards: but it's not aloof his architectonics architectonics that is acclaimed for its abstruse superiority.
The co-owner of acclaimed architectonics close Bull O'Sullivan cemented his acceptability as one of the country's top architects aback his close won two awards at the anniversary commemoration on Friday night.
O'Sullivan was additionally a agog abecedarian wrestler in his heyday, affairs off takedowns and reversals with the aforementioned alertness he showed to building beautifully-designed homes.
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Michael O'Sullivan in the home he alone advised and congenital 10 years ago in Mangere Bridge.
Both pursuits affection acutely in the O'Sullivan ancestors history.
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O'Sullivan's grandfather, Jack Aspin, was the 1938 Auckland middleweight angry champion, while his uncle David Aspin, was one of alone two New Zealanders to accept anytime been the agent at two Olympic Games, at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and won gold at the 1972 Commonwealth Games in the 1982 bathe angry category.
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Architect Michael O'Sullivan and his daughter, Mary, who won 3rd abode at an Auckland angry championship adjoin boys.
Another uncle John Aspin, who anesthetized abroad this week, was additionally a arresting wrestler, and O'Sullivan has dedicated his latest awards to his uncle.
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Templeport Bungalow House plan. Architectural designed blueprint ... | Irish House Designs And Floor PlansO'Sullivan, 48, wrestled competitively into his forties, demography out the Auckland 120kg class antagonism in 2013.
And now the billy has anesthetized to his 10-year-old son Seamus, who has won age-group national angry titles while his daughter, Mary, eight, was placed third against boys in this year's Auckland championship.
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Michael O'Sullivan advised the Lesieli Tonga Auditorium for which he won a 2017 New Zealand Architectonics Award.
It was on his father's ancillary that he developed a agog absorption in architectonics and architecture.
O'Sullivan's father was an Irish immigrant who came over to New Zealand before the start of World War II.
He says his father, who was a carpenter and bridge builder, refused to action for the British Empire like most Irishmen at the time, but ended up architectonics barricade bunkers in North Head, Devonport.
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Architect Michael O'Sullivan has won two New Zealand Architectonics Awards for 2017. One of them is for this house, which he designed, in Arrowtown.
He after married a woman twenty years his junior and raised eight children in Otahuhu afore affective assimilate various civil projects such as building state houses in Lower Hutt.
O'Sullivan says he and his siblings were privileged to accept been able to work alongside their dad "and enjoy all the madness".
This cemented his love for architectonics things and set him on a aisle to become a celebrated architect.
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Michael O'Sullivan in his admirable Mangere Bridge home.
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House plans by Blueprint Homeplans. Architecturally design house plans | Irish House Designs And Floor PlansHe laughs as he recalls the aboriginal abode he designed when he was sixteen-years-old. He says his sister phoned him out of the dejected and asked if he can draw a abode for them.
"I said well I alone just started this drafting affidavit but we'll accord it a go. So it's kind of nuts. You attending aback at it and kind of go mmm, but they loved it and they're still there," he says.
The house, which is located in Westport, "sits in the bush" according to O'Sullivan and the "sun works through it beautifully".
He says you need to be able to adapt the big issues in the land architecturally if you appetite to be anxious about the activity at hand and points to the assignment of the Maori who he believes has the most sophisticated understanding of space on the planet.
O'Sullivan's work dots added than a few landscapes beyond New Zealand, and added afield.
There's the family home he congenital in Mangere Bridge, and his "architect monastery" flat in Lyttleton, which he campaign to every week.
Both received national accolades in the accomplished few years.
He salvaged discarded wharf beams from the Lyttleton Port that was damaged during the 2011 convulsion and used it to accomplish a careful bank at the aback of the studio. This also protects the building, that sits halfway up a hill, from the rocks that are still tumbling down the slope.
He admits there are no long-term solutions to assure buildings from earthquakes. All you can do as an architect according to O'Sullivan is be as "generous" as you can with the animating because the added walls and bracing you can commit to an object, the added acceptable it's going to survive.
O'Sullivan is, however, a realist and jokingly says "if a big convulsion comes through you're f*****".
In 2015, O'Sullivan spent two weeks in Mongolia to present account to the government to try and advice break their apartment problem. Many Mongolians live as nomads, acrimonious up their accouterments and move about every three months. Now many nomads are absorption to the capitol, causing a above apartment crisis on a par not antithetical to Auckland's.
He says he did a agitated bulk of analysis afore activity there, and came up with a band-aid to use a tiny aerial annual to accomplish the attic plan and presented that over the advance of bristles canicule to the Mongolian government through the use of an interpreter.
"It was a actual advantaged affair to do," he says.
"They are the best happy, beautiful, chargeless and audacious bodies I've anytime appear across."
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Ireland House Plans Home Designs Floor - House Plans | #54958 | Irish House Designs And Floor PlansWhile he was there, O'Sullivan bankrupt bottomward some of the cultural and language barriers by wrestling some of the drifting herdsman he met.
O'Sullivan, a bald, able-bodied man wearing rugby shorts with a crushing handshake, bagged his first deer during a contempo airing to Ngamatea Station near Taupo.
While he talks about his life, American singer Nina Simone's soothing music plays in the background.
O'Sullivan laughs and says it's the first deer he's ever shot and killed while Melissa's busy acid a block of venison meat into medallions for dinner.
You aloof accept to attending at all the photos up on the walls of this beautifully designed and spacious house to see that ancestors comes first in the O'Sullivan household.
O'Sullivan's close Bull O'Sullivan best up two awards at Friday's New Zealand Architect Awards; the Hospitality Award for the Lesieli Tonga Auditorium in Mangere, an auditorium for the Chargeless Wesleyan Abbey of Tonga where abbey groups accumulate for ample ceremonies and feasts of pig and crayfish.
The added was for a small abode he designed in Arrowtown.
Among his added contempo projects are a new rugby stadium for Christchurch, which he advised off his own bat because he has huge reservations with the amphitheater that's been proposed.
He wants people to realise that they don't accept to abide by a plan that was prepared as a "kneejerk reaction" to the earthquakes and that they should not be railroaded by mediocrity.
O'Sullivan admits that anybody in Christchurch is of advance cerebration 'who is this bloody idiot?'.
His latest project saw him travelling to Austin, Texas where someone wants him to design a house similar to his Mangere Bridge home on the banks of the Colorado River.
However, the one architectonics in the world that he would have loved to design above all abroad was built added than a millenium ago in Ireland. In fact, he took his family to the 1200-year-old monastery at Skellig Michael recently.
He says this is where the Irish sent their best acclaimed thinkers, which might be something he is trying to carbon at his Lyttleton studio.
- Sunday Star Times
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