The Diamond Shop

The Diamond Shop

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…

TE PAE / North Piha

TE PAE / North Piha

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 —…

THE ORANGE (Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects) / Newton

THE ORANGE (Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects) / Newton

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…

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STEP ISLAND RETREAT / Bay of Islands

STEP ISLAND RETREAT / Bay of Islands

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…

HNZC WALTERS ROAD DEVELOPMENT / Mt Wellington

HNZC WALTERS ROAD DEVELOPMENT / Mt Wellington

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…

8 AUGUSTUS TERRACE / Parnell

8 AUGUSTUS TERRACE / Parnell

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…

PARITUA WINERY / Hawkes Bay

PARITUA WINERY / Hawkes Bay

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…

UNLIMITED POTENTIAL / Herne Bay

UNLIMITED POTENTIAL / Herne Bay

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…

HOWICK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL / Auckland

HOWICK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL / Auckland

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…