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‘I may have reacted too far’: architect Roger Walker on his groundbreaking buildings
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The New Zealander is known for his use of colour as well as turrets, towers, cylinders, cubes and pyramid shapes
Radically inventive Wellington architect Roger Walker remembers being at a party a few years ago and overhearing two people who thought he was out of earshot talking about him. One of them asked the other if he would ever use Walker to design something for him. The reply was a firm, “No, I wouldn’t. You can’t tell Roger what to do.”
Walker, an architect who has always gone his own way, laughs as he recounts the story.
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