Every Building on Cuba Street is a concertina photobook created for architectural photographer Andy Spain. Spanning over seven metres, it captures Wellington’s most iconic street as a single, continuous panorama.

The project sought to translate the rhythm of Cuba Street, eclectic, layered and constantly shifting, into a format that could hold both architectural detail and the experience of walking its length.

The book adopts an accordion structure, allowing the panorama to unfold gradually or extend in full. Its form mirrors the cadence of a pedestrian’s walk, measured, directional and open-ended. Readers can flip and rotate the book to travel north–south or south–north, introducing choice and movement into the act of viewing.

Scale and alignment were treated with precision. The continuous image demanded consistency across folds, with careful calibration to preserve rhythm along the entire length. The object becomes sculptural when extended, yet intimate when held, shifting between public streetscape and personal encounter.

Produced in a hand-folded edition of ten, each copy was crafted to maintain seamless continuity across the panorama.

The result merges photography, design and place into a tactile record of Cuba Street’s evolving identity, part document, part object, part journey.