Tony Milne on 'Feeling Amenable' for Abode Magazine

May 01, 2025
Tony Milne of Rough Milne Mitchell Landscape Architects on the meaning and mystery of amenity.
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'I write this from our Nelson studio to the sound of an atmospheric river raining down on the roof above. Atmospheric river is a term new to my lexicon. I have recently learned such phenomena are “relatively long, narrow regions in the atmosphere (five times longer than they are wide) – like rivers of water in the sky, bucketing rain onto your head”. Colloquially, and to most, a downpour.'
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Read the full article here.
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'I write this from our Nelson studio to the sound of an atmospheric river raining down on the roof above. Atmospheric river is a term new to my lexicon. I have recently learned such phenomena are “relatively long, narrow regions in the atmosphere (five times longer than they are wide) – like rivers of water in the sky, bucketing rain onto your head”. Colloquially, and to most, a downpour.'
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Read the full article here.