In this interview taken from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Nick Barratt-Boyes of Studio Pacific and Ralph Roberts of Warren & Mahoney about their design for a new terminal at Wellington International Airport, where copper-clad structures connect three existing buildings.

Barratt-Boyes and Roberts explain how their client’s brief for “a design to divide opinion” became the driving force of the project, the controversy it caused and the attractions of their native New Zealand.
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