These New Zealand mountain cabins mediate human shelter and alpine scale

Set deep within the Hopkins Valley in New Zealand’s South Island, North Point Cabin occupies a remote site on Glen Lyon Station in the Mackenzie Basin of Canterbury. One of two Temple Cabins – the other, Steeple Peak Cabin, is located approximately 400 metres away and out of sight – North Point is positioned at the heart of a high-country landscape defined by alpine scale, pastoral heritage and glacial geology. Here, architecture operates as a mediator between human refuge and