BOATHOUSE BAY — HOME Magazine / Home of the Year Winner 2024 — NZIA Local Award 2024 / Auckland / Winner Snells Beach Boathouse Bay is a medium density development situated at the north end of the Snells Beach settlement, north of Auckland. Crosson architects created the masterplan and designed a series of housing types…
LIGHT MINE — NZIA National Awards / Winner 2021 — HOME Magazine / Home of the Year Winner 2020 — 2021 World Architecture Festival / Lisbon / Finalist — 2020 BEST Awards / Aotearoa / Silver Kuaotunu This house is an exploration of strong sculptural forms referencing the mine shafts of the long-abandoned gold mines…
Light & Clay — NZIA Local Award 2021 / Auckland / Winner — HOME Magazine / Home of the Year 2021 / Finalist — 2021 BEST Awards / Aotearoa / Finalist Westmere A steeply sloping site below the road facing north. The intention was to design a modest family home that maximised the sun and…
Kōtuitui Terraces — 2022 Property Council Awards / Community and Affordable Housing Property Award / Winner — 2022 Property Council Awards / Multi-Unit Residential Property Award / Winner — 2022 Commercial Project Awards / Residential / Gold — 2022 Commercial Project Awards / Residential / National Category Winner — 2023 NZIA Local Awards / Housing…
KAWAU ISLAND HOUSE – NZIA Local Award 2018 / Auckland — 2020 BEST Awards / Aotearoa / Bronze Kawau Island Designed to provide a restful escape from the busy city lives of the owners – a family with three young boys – the house needed to be modest, flexible and hard-wearing. Viewed notionally as a…
Omaha
An escape from a city apartment, the client was looking for a looser, more open space to spread out in a home well connected to the sun. A collector of sculpture and paintings, a sculptural home was the intent, providing an interesting and dynamic getaway, largely for a couple, but with the ability to expand, catering for gatherings of the extended family. The house was to be made of materials appropriate to the marine environment, requiring minimal maintenance, with a simplicity and robustness.
Situated at the Northern tip of the Omaha Peninsula this house sits boldly on a flat site within its semi-suburban context and looks out towards an estuary to the west. A habitable sculpture with a dynamic roof, a chevron delineating interior circulation, stairs, and a future roof terrace accessed with a high-level ‘pop out’ exit. Deliberately, there is no garaging- cars are ok in the elements! The interior spills out onto the lawn, with positioning to accommodate a ‘tent city’ on the section
Omaha
An escape from a city apartment, the client was looking for a looser, more open space to spread out in a home well connected to the sun. A collector of sculpture and paintings, a sculptural home was the intent, providing an interesting and dynamic getaway, largely for a couple, but with the ability to expand, catering for gatherings of the extended family. The house was to be made of materials appropriate to the marine environment, requiring minimal maintenance, with a simplicity and robustness.
Situated at the Northern tip of the Omaha Peninsula this house sits boldly on a flat site within its semi-suburban context and looks out towards an estuary to the west. A habitable sculpture with a dynamic roof, a chevron delineating interior circulation, stairs, and a future roof terrace accessed with a high-level ‘pop out’ exit. Deliberately, there is no garaging- cars are ok in the elements! The interior spills out onto the lawn, with positioning to accommodate a ‘tent city’ on the section
Kōtuitui Terraces — Master Builders Award 2021 / Gold Medal — HOME Magazine / Home of the Year, Multi Unit 2021 / Finalist — NZIA Local Award 2024 / Auckland / Winner Manukau Kōtuitui in Māori means ‘to connect’, a name gifted by Te Ākitai Waiohua to the development. These homes connect to mana whenua,…
RECRAFTED ART HOUSE – NZIA National Awards / Winner 2021 – NZIA Local Award 2019 / Auckland / Heritage – Best Awards 2019 / Silver / Residential Auckland The project involved an extensive restoration and refurbishment of a 1910’s era Bamford and Pierce Arts and Crafts home, the addition of a contemporary living wing connected…
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.
UNITED NORTH PIHA LIFEGUARD SERVICE North Piha
WHITE HOUSE Auckland A contemporary addition to a traditional home, the White House sits elevated, a floating lantern above the ground floor. Designed for a courageous couple in their 80’s, White House serves as a studio sleepout and office for the family on the top level, with a garage and sculptural entry on the ground…
The Orange (Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects) — NZIA Award 2016 / Auckland Newton This project is the refurbishment of a significant landmark heritage building – the Orange the Orange Coronation Hall on Auckland’s Newton Road – and a new mixed-use development on the same site, resulted from a design competition. The brick and plaster building, designed in 1922…
DNA HOUSE — NZIA Local Award 2018 / Waikato Bay of Plenty — HOME Magazine / Home of the Year Finalist 2018 Coromandel Designed as a retreat, the DNA house is an exercise in contrast, delight, strength, and elevation. A series of bi-folding perforated metal screens surround the home, serving to filter light, and provide…
LIGHT BOX – NZIA Local Award 2019 / Auckland / Housing – Alterations and Additions – Best Awards 2019 / Bronze / Residential Auckland The project involved the removal of an existing lean-to living space at the back of a traditional Ponsonby villa, replaced by the addition of a contemporary light filled living zone, opening…
COROMANDEL BACH — World Architecture News Finalist / Top 6 Houses worldwide 2006 — NZ Home & Entertaining / Home of the Decade Winner 1996 – 2005 — NZIA Award 2003 / Award for Architecture 2003 — Origin Timber Design Award / Architectural Excellence 2003 — NZ Home & Entertaining / Home of the Year…
POINT CHEVALIER HOUSE Point Chevalier
HUT ON SLEDS — NZIA New Zealand Award 2012/13 / National — NZ Wood Timber Design Award 2012 / Winner — Korean Institute of Architects Top 100 International Architects Award 2012 / Top 100 — Urbis (Australasia) Best Bathrooms 2012 / Winner — NZIA Award 2012 / Waikato Bay of Plenty — Architectural Review (London)…
RED HOUSE — German Design Award Winner 2018 — World Architecture Festival (Berlin) House of the Year / Shortlisted 2016 — Home Magazine Home of the Year Finalist 2015 — NZIA Local Award for Architecture 2015 — NZIA National Award for Architecture 2015 — AAA Cavalier Bremworth Unbuilt Architecture Award 2012 Titirangi The Red House is a…
Fe3O4 HOUSE – NZIA Local Award 2018 / Auckland Taiharuru A lifetime spent in the boat-building industry provided the inspiration for this project. The location at the margin of the bay and exposed to the elements – wind and ocean called for a rugged response. Just as early Polynesian explorers turned their sea-craft upside down…
MOERAKI HOUSE Otago Moeraki House sits atop a hill at a coastal location adjacent to the famed Moeraki Boulders. Conceived as a series of prefabricated pods utilising standard construction detailing, each pod is modified to reflect internal space. The long and narrow footprint of the house capitalises on the otherworldly North-eastern view to the ocean…
RANGINUI Northland
PA HOUSE Northland
BACH BACH — NZIA Award 2016 / Waikato Bay of Plenty Raglan Classical musicians are trained in nuance – searching for colour and meaning in their musical tone and expression – as well as in the building blocks of rhythm, pitch and dynamics. This house for an opera singer and her husband takes elements of…
KUAOTUNU HOUSE — NZIA Award 2008 / Award for Architecture 2008 Coromandel The intention was to renovate an existing holiday home for a family on a dramatic site in Kuaotunu. The 70s bach had served the family well for many years and was imbued with family memories. It was too valuable as a family artefact…
Waikōpua House Waikōpua
ECO SANCTUARY Northland
RETREAT Northland
TE HINAKI Warkworth This project presented with an unusual site in an estuary context. Situated right on the harbour edge, the site borders an ancient Maori kai moana area which was reclaimed last century for farmland. The wetland origin of the site, which confers a unique environmental quality combined with uncertain ground conditions, became a…
TUTUKAKA HOUSE — NZIA New Zealand Award 2011 / New Zealand — NZIA Award 2011 / Auckland Northland Matapouri Beach Designed as a refuge from the busy city lives of the owners, this house provides relaxed holiday living on the Tutukaka coast. The plan is organised around a central spine, with spaces oriented to specific…
KAHAKAHA HOUSE Northland At an extraordinary coastal location, Kahakaha House is a home that nods to the surrounding bush.
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. The formal inspiration for this…
STEP ISLAND RETREAT Bay of Islands Motukawaiti is a privately owned island situated 3km offshore from mainland New Zealand, in the Cavalli Islands group, 20km north of the Bay of Islands. The project included the restoration of an existing turn of the century cottage, with the addition of four pavilion structures, to provide accommodation and…
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…
WHANGAPOUA BEACH HOUSE — Trans Tasman Timber Design Awards 2011 / 1 of 4 Finalists — NZIA Award 2010 / Award for Architecture 2010 — NZ Wood / Award for Residential Architectural Excellence 2010 Coromandel Casually laid-back yet highly refined, this small-scale holiday home is oriented north-east towards the ocean, sun and distant islands. An…
POU Northland
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…
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…
HUT UNDER TREE Whangapoua The Whangapoua Tree House is designed to provide for a radically different experience to that of the main house where a family of five are efficiently housed in just 40m² of space. The tree house is a simple open space, highly detailed and simply appointed, located under the canopy of a…
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…
HERNE BAY HOUSE 2 Photography by Patrick Reynolds
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…
TE ARAI HOUSE 2 Northland
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…
ORAKEI BASIN HOUSE 2 Auckland
KAIPARA HOUSE — NZIA Award 2008 / Award for Architecture 2008 Kaipara The clients, a courageous couple in their late 70s, initially wanted a modest house that would “look like a Lockwood”. This concept evolved over time to produce a home that was much more responsive to the rugged west coast site and could be…
TE ARAI HOUSE Northland
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.
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…
AHUAREKA VILLAGE Whitford
ONEHUNGA HOUSE Auckland
STEP ISLAND COTTAGE Bay of Islands
STEP ISLAND LODGE Bay of Islands
THE LANDING Hobsonville Point
BATH ST OFFICE Parnell
STATION HOUSE Wanaka
WILSHER VILLAGE Henderson A Multi unit residential and aged care competition project for McConnell Properties, in association with Landscape Architect Boffa Miskell.
NOHOROA HOUSE — NZIA Award 2016 / Wellington Kapiti Coast Nohoroa is the name of the family farm where one of our clients spent their childhood and is reused in this project to reflect that continuity with their past and hopes for the future. The brief was for an easy, nurturing and memorable family home…
STATION HOUSE Wanaka The project involved the alteration, restoration and conversion of an existing farm shed. A contemporary addition was created to house a bedroom wing, and the existing shed was repurposed as a flexible living zone.
ONEHUNGA HOUSE 2 Auckland
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…
TAKAPUNA HOUSE Auckland
WINE HOUSE Orewa
ORAKEI BASIN HOUSE 3 Auckland 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.
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…
STEP ISLAND BUNKER Bay of Islands
ONION BOX Bombay
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…
HNZC WALTERS ROAD DEVELOPMENT Mt Wellington The Intentions for the design of Walters Road development for Housing New Zealand Corporation is about setting “best practice” principles in achieving good quality houses and streets for the occupants. It recognises the issues of land use efficiency, community and suburban sprawl. Through good planning and architecture these issues…
STATION CABIN – NZIA Local Award 2018 / Southern / Interior Architecture Wanaka The project involved the conversion of an existing shed into farm-worker accommodation. The plan provides ground floor living with kitchen dining and sitting zones, along with a new first floor level providing two bedrooms and a bathroom. The existing solid timber floor…
BRITOMART COMPETITION Auckland The Waitemata waterfront is the meeting place of the City and the Harbour; the City and the Region; the City’s and the Region’s public transport systems. The Passenger Transport Interchange is the central tenet of the brief. The Waitemata waterfront is the place where Auckland’s three major modes of public transport (ferry,…
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…
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…
NZ STEEL VISITOR CENTRE Glenbrook
OTUATAUA HERITAGE CENTRE Otuataua Crosson Architects in association with Charissa Snijders.
TE WERO BRIDGE Auckland Viaduct Harbour The concept centres around reclamation both conceptually and literally, to reclaim important elements in our city and our history. The intention is to reactivate these & energise Te Wero Island and the passage across the Viaduct Harbour. The scheme engages in the wider context of the city & urban…
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…
12 HEATHER STREET Parnell An alteration to an existing 1970’s office building. (Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects)
PARITUA WINERY Hawkes Bay This winery west of Hastings consists of two buildings – one housing production, lab and offices; and a smaller services building – whose floating roofs can be read together as one gently sloping plane. With their material palette of concrete, steel and glass, these are clearly working buildings, while the lightness…
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…
GALLAHER AGED CARE Manurewa
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…
COAL PIT ROAD HOUSE Queenstown (Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects) .
OPITO BAY HOUSE Opito Bay A carefully crafted response to a challenging site, the Opito Beach house makes the most of it’s dramatic coastal position. A butterfly roof extends skyward atop three irregular box forms, which recess into the hillside, reducing the apparent bulk of the building. ‘Off the boards’ precast concrete panels with black…
VULAVULA 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…
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…
KERIKERI HOUSE Bay of Islands
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…
CHRISTCHURCH HOUSE Christchurch A joint design venture with Wilson & Hill Architects, this modern Christchurch home looks onto the Avon River
PARNELL HOUSE Auckland
CHURCH OFFICE Arrowtown
WHANGAMATA HOUSE Coromandel
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…
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…
HERNE BAY HOUSE 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 the…
PONSONBY HOUSE Auckland
BROWNS BAY APARTMENTS Auckland 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.
TAMAKI TRANSFORMATION PROJECT Auckland