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.
PUNAKĒRUA HOUSE NZIA Local Award 2024 / Gisborne/Hawke’s Bay / Winner Punakērua In association with Designgroup Stapleton Elliott, we conceived this home as a faceted geometric form responding to the undulations in its natural cliff-top context, and sensitively nestling within it. The design recognises the natural landscape by referring and deferring to it, maintaining the…
DIAMOND Remuera Road
ECHELON Ponsonby
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…
BATH STREET OFFICE
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 2 Auckland
WINE HOUSE Orewa
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…
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…
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…
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…
ONION BOX Bombay
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…
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
KERIKERI HOUSE Bay of Islands
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…
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…
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…
Waitī House Ōākura In association with Thandi Jazmine Design. Photography by David Straight
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…
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.
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…
Mataka House Scheme Mataka
Waikōpua House Waikōpua
AHUAREKA VILLAGE Whitford
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.…
The Diamond Shop — NZIA Local Award 2024 / Auckland / Finalist Ponsonby The brief was to create a new image for The Diamond Shop coinciding with their move to a fresh location on Ponsonby Road. The exercise was to create contrast between the rough and brutal monochromatic base build with the finesse, beauty and…
TI POINT HOUSE Ti Point
RESONANT HOUSE Auckland Watching the densification of Tāmaki Makaurau take hold over the last decade, an adventurous couple with a long history of living on this Parnell site decided to utilise their large property in a new way. In their retirement, they had an idea for a subdivided, but shared, property. They would have their…
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
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…
Jewellery Box — 2023 NZIA Local Awards / Alterations and additions / Winner Photography by Samuel Hartnett
Paper House — NZIA Local Award 2024 / Auckland / Winner Photography by Samuel Hartnett
Te Pae North Piha Surf Life-saving Tower — 2022 World Architecture Festival / Lisbon / Finalist — 2023 Concrete NZ Nauhria Awards / Excellence for Architectural Concrete (Monte Craven Award) / Winner — 2023 Architizer A+ Awards / Architecture +Small Projects / Finalist — 2023 NZIA Local Awards / Small Project Architecture / Winner —…
Parkhaven — Property Industry Awards 2024 / Nominee Rosehill This project creates a new vibrant community within an existing suburban neighbourhood. Larger stand along four-bedroom homes are presented to Parkhaven Drive that relate to the existing grain of the suburb. Two and three-bedroom terrace homes and a walk-up apartment building are grouped around a well-design…
Waiata Shores Takanini Photography by Fletcher Living
Queensberry residential scheme