Saturday, March 6, 2010

All Hail the Bungalow

You see them in the former British Honduras (now Belize), the former Malaya (now Malaysia), all over West Africa: the ornate wooden, corrugated-roofed British colonial tropical house.

I didn't quite expect to see them in New Zealand, which doesn't have the same climate. But there they were, and (so we were told) they are quite in demand by yuppies looking to gentrify:


More elaborate examples of the style also dot the city, though this one is a foundation or something like that, not a private home:


Again, let me repeat: New Zealand is a modern country. Auckland has a real skyline:


But it also has much more in common with Belize City than I would have thought.

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