TE MARA – KERI Mount Roskill Te Māra – Keri is a 31-home development that is part of the wider re-development of the Mount Roskill South precinct. It sits amongst existing single-family homes and recently completed higher-density multi-unit developments. The brief called for the creation of affordable homes in Mount Roskill, a high-demand area, with…
SHELLY BEACH ROAD – High End Terraces Freemans Bay, Auckland
ECHELON Ponsonby
Elysian Luxury Apartments Parnell Auckland
DIAMOND Remuera Road
Arlington Wellington
KUPE HOUSING FOR LOCAL IWI.
Rangitoopuni Lifestyle Village Auckland West.
Queenstown Apartments Queenstown
LINE ROAD GLEN INNES.
Te Mara – WHAKATO Mount Roskill
Te Mara – Tupu Mount Roskill
PUHINUI PARK TERRACE HOMES Manakau for Housing Foundation.
REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT CENTRE Mangere Underpinning this project is the desire to project a strong sense of place for a group of people previously displaced, a welcome and a harbour for those buffeted by circumstance. It seeks to reinforce the traditions, lifestyle and visual environment of Aotearoa/New Zealand, while introducing subtle references and familiar elements from…
Walters Rd Housing Auckland
LAKES HAYES HOME Lake Hayes, Queenstown The project brief was an alteration and addition to an existing home on a prime Lake Hayes site, modernising the residence while embracing the Central Otago architectural aesthetic. The clients sought a full reclad using materiality such as local schist to integrate the home further into its alpine surroundings.…
TI POINT HOUSE Ti Point
Te Mara Multi-Res — Property Industry Awards 2024 / Nominee A scheme for terraced housing in Mount Roskill, Tāmaki Makaurau
Waitī House Ōākura In association with Thandi Jazmine Design. Photography by David Straight
ORAKEI BASIN HOUSE 2 Auckland
FARM HILL HOUSE House on the hillside. Concrete, timber, corten.
WINE HOUSE Orewa
BROTHER of the HUT ON SLEDS Treehouse to sit alongside the “Hut on Sleds”
Multi Unit Development Auckland
Waikōpua House Waikōpua
GULLY STILT HOUSE House in a gully on stilts. Sitting in the treetops. Responding to the bush context. A curved north facing front around a huge tree.
WEST COAST TOWER Charleston The project describes a tower that evokes the mining heritage of the historic Charleston settlement. Light shafts draw light into a timber lined enclosure. Openings are restrained and frame dramatic views and tailored view shafts.
SENTINEL HOUSE Coromandel This home is for a couple and their young son in the Coromandel township. They are ceramic artists and have a familiarity and love of clay. Because of this it was appropriate to adopt bricks, that universal, cost-effective, human scaled building material for their modest new home. Photography by Samuel Hartnett
COOKS BEACH HOUSE Coromandel In 1769 Captain Cook observed the transit of Mercury at Cooks Beach, just below the site of this project. In homage to Cook, the shape and form of this house was mapped out to the layout of the stars as he would have observed them in the night sky. Conceptually the…
STEP ISLAND LODGE Bay of Islands
ST HELIERS BAY HOUSE Auckland The house is set on a gently sloping site that is surrounded by existing houses to the east, west and south. The elevated site provides sweeping northern views over St Heliers to the Waitemata harbour beyond. The form of the building was generated to fully exploit the site’s slope and…
WHANGAMATA BEACH HOUSE House at the beach. Natural stone, concrete, timber.
MATASAWA HOUSE Fiji The project was an extensive alteration to an existing beachfront property. The existing building was gutted and almost completely rebuilt, and expanded. The existing vernacular structure was retained and local techniques of detailing and finish were used wherever possible. A series of open and breezy âburesâ are arranged around sanded courtyards, providing…
STEP ISLAND COTTAGE Bay of Islands
8 AUGUSTUS TERRACE Parnell The building is a box sandwiched between two walls of dimpled aluminium sheeting. It stands alone perched on ‘pilotis’ above the cliff line. The structure is exposed; the function is exposed. The skin is exposed. A hard edged commercial building that stands alone perched on the cliff top held up by…
MR T Ti Point
12 HEATHER STREET Parnell An alteration to an existing 1970’s office building.(Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects)
VALUVALU HOUSE Fiji This island retreat is designed to provide a range of holiday experiences. It is a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Fijian bure, formed as a series of linked pavilions with large hipped roofs to create generous volumes within. Wide open-air loggias link the living and bedroom pavilions, providing a shaded transition space…
RIDGE HOUSE Coromandel Peninsula Corten Steel, Concrete, Timber.
TOWER HOUSE Huna Forest Auckland A timber tower deep in the Huna Forest.
OMAHA BEACH HOUSE Omaha A series of pavilions, enclosed space, outdoor rooms and transitional spaces linked with a covered boardwalk. The boardwalk has a slatted timber rood with glazing above, giving a dappled light condition through the length of the house. The forms to the beach front are long and low, and broken through the…
EAGLES NEST Bay of Islands The brief called for a spiritual refuge for the owners of the house and their guests. The dramatic isolation of the site afforded unrestricted openness in design, allowing a seamless connection with the exterior, taking up 360° views of the landscape. The temple like pavilion sits long and low on…
WHANAGAMATA HOUSE Coromandel
UNITED NORTH PIHA LIFEGUARD SERVICE North Piha
APPLE HOUSE Herne Bay, Auckland This addition to an Auckland City Council Residential 1 zoned villa included the addition of kitchen, dining, and family room space and an additional bedroom, en-suite and study upstairs. The project was divided into two stages, the upstairs parent’s bedroom suite over the existing house and a stand-alone pavilion housing…
UNLIMITED POTENTIAL Herne Bay This project, for a real-estate office seeking a distinctive contemporary presence, included the restoration of a historic double-bay Edwardian commercial building and the addition of a contemporary structure to the rear. The materials and forms were selected to clearly delineate old from new. The existing building had suffered from many years…
COMMERCIAL CHURCH RESTORATION & RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT Arrowtown
MATAKA HOUSE Northland The site is situated on the crest of a small rise at the base of a mature pine plantation. It is exposed and has 270 degree views. The intention was to develop a house that was not overly dominant in this vast landscape. The house plan moves around the crest of the…
TAMAKI TRANSFORMATION PROJECT Auckland
TAKAPUNA CLIFFTOP HOUSE Auckland
Opito Bay House Ōākura In association with Thandi Jazmine Design. Photography by David Straight
BATH STREET OFFICE
ONEHUNGA HOUSE 1 Auckland
BROWNS BAY APARTMENTS A waterfront site in Browns Bay accommodates a new mixed use development. The retail precinct on street level is sheltered by a tensile fabric verandah which reflects its nautical position. The apartments are shuttered for sun control and privacy.
ORAKEI BASIN HOUSE 3 A new family home on Auckland’s Orakei Basin. The design references the site which is located on a sensitive volcanic crater rim. A sculptural folded roof form lifts to embrace the view and the sky. Basalt cladding is offset against a soft green-wall wrapped concrete perimeter.
REMUERA HOUSE Auckland Interior and exterior have a degree of ambiguity in the Wilson House. Floor-to-ceiling glass doors disappear into the wall cavities so that the living area can flow seamlessly on to the patio, the transition made even more gradual by the erection of a canvas awning over the outdoor space. Likewise, the dining…
TARA ITI RETREAT North Auckland.
ST HELIERS BAY TOWN HOUSES Auckland The intention was to design a modern medium density development that way sympathetic with the existing building stock yet unashamedly modern. The house has a relatively small footprint and is arranged vertically around the stair. The home has access from the South over a landscaped garden and pool to…
WAIMARAMA HOUSE Hawkes Bay A small, cost effective three bedroom house situated above the Waimarama Beach settlement in Hawkes Bay. The 130sqm holiday home was designed for an interesting American couple, he a retired minister of the ‘cloth’ and she an equestrian Olympian. The brief was to create a home that would be an amalgam…
CHRISTCHURCH HOUSE Christchurch A joint design venture with Wilson & Hill Architects, this modern Christchurch home looks onto the Avon River
HOKONUI Otahuhu Hokonui is a medium-density community social housing project for Kāinga Ora. It is an exercise in regeneration and provides solidity and substance to people’s lives through substantial and permanent materials while acknowledging its surroundings — bricks and bay windows.
QUEENSTOWN HOUSE Queenstown This rural Queenstown project was a dramatic reimagining of an existing home. The building was almost completely refinished, with the addition of a new living wing and an extended bedroom wing, both of which respond to the existing building form. The house is rural in nature, with crisp metal pitched roofs and…
ONION BOX Bombay
KERIKERI HOUSE Bay of Islands
ONEHUNGA HOUSE 2 Auckland
WILSHER VILLAGE Henderson A Multi unit residential and aged care competition project for McConnell Properties, in association with Landscape Architect Boffa Miskell.
ORAKEI BASIN HOUSE Auckland Built on a steep site of 860 square metres on the edge of the Orakei Basin, the house is zoned horizontally to maximise connections to the site, with horizontal terracing to provide some flat outside living areas. On the top level are entry, garage, study and main bedroom with ensuite. Below…
TALBOT PARK SOCIAL HOUSING -Housing New Zealand NZIA Local 2007 Award for Architecture Glen Innes The project involved the design of 24 two bedroom apartments as part of the Housing New Zealand Talbot Park renewal in Glen Innes. The development is envisaged as a landmark housing and community redevelopment. Existing state owned units were removed…
HOWICK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL Auckland Howick Intermediate School required a new building to house the administration functions for a growing school, and a new staffroom with meeting room facilities as well as new ablution and sick-bay facilities for the children. The brief asked for a new “front” to the school that would reflect ideas of quality…
Mataka House Scheme Mataka
TARA ITI HOME North Auckland.
AHUAREKA VILLAGE Whitford
WIRIHANA Auckland At Wirihana, we recognise that community spaces are as important as the built form. That’s why you’ll find green belts, pocket and central parks designed to bring people together, including a cafe and daycare at Wirihana’s heart. With over 3,000m² of kickabout space in the Neighbourhood Hub and heaps of walkways, there are…
HERNE BAY HOUSE 2 Auckland
MATAKANA HOUSE Matakana The brief was for a house following sustainable design principles, and reflecting rural, shed-like forms that would sit comfortably on a bush-clad site. The building sits long and low across a ridge, at once anchored to the site and floating above the extensive nature bush. A materials palette of rustic steel cladding, Corten…
ONETANGI Waiheke Island
THE LANDING Hobsonville Point
NZ STEEL VISITOR CENTRE Glenbrook
WATERS EDGE VILLA RESTORATION OLD 2 NEW. Auckland.
STATION HOUSE Wanaka
HOUSING INTEGRATION PROJECT Auckland The proposal maximizes active frontages to, and overlooking, Merton Road Reserve (two boundaries) and Merton Road. Circulation spaces within the development are transformed by layout and detail into living streets where residents are able to engage or withdraw from the activity around them. Kitchens overlook stairwells and entrances. Living spaces within…
VILLA POP Villa raised for new floor underneath.
BREATHE COMPETITION Christchurch This design explores a new way of contemporary urban living in post-earthquake Christchurch. It seeks to achieve a mixed use, low rise, eco-friendly community within the devastation that has occurred. It proposes a contemporary approach to city regeneration. An approach that has occurred many times before in places that have experienced man…
GALLAHER COURT Manurewa, Auckland
PONSONBY VILLA ADDITION Auckland.
TE WERO BRIDGE Auckland Waterfront.