MAN of STYLE
Meet & greet
Andre Afamasaga (New Zealand Human Rights Commission senior manager) and flatmate Paul Whiting (Ministry of Education lead).
“Above all, I want my home to be a place where people can feel joy, safety and acceptance.”
ANDRE AFAMASAGA
The old Aulsebrooks factory in the middle of Wellington hasn’t been making iced animal biscuits in years. Instead, the historic building is now an apartment building with smart, spacious apartments featuring soaring ceilings and period details.
Andre Afamasaga and civil servant flatmate Paul Whiting have lived in one of the complex’s light-filled two-bedroom rented apartments for seven years. There are shades of Monica and Rachel’s New York pad from the ’90s sitcom Friends to it, with its tall bank of colonial-style south-facing windows and their eclectic mix of furnishings and decor.
The apartment is solid concrete, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the recent earthquake strengthening is apparent wherever one looks with large
