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…
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…
ELYSIAN Auckland At Elysian, quality is expressed through a sophisticated and elegantly restrained material palette. Stone, is the hero of the building, chosen for its raw charm and integrity. The stone is paired with sleek black metal and bronze joinery, providing contrast and lustre to the building’s exterior.
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…
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…
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Crosson Ponsonby Office — (The Diamond Shop Fit-out) NZIA Local Award 2024 / Auckland / Finalist (Pending Awards) With retail on the Ground Floor, our new Crosson Architects studio on Level 1, and apartments on Levels 2 and 3, this building addresses the street and will be an example of intensification done well in the…
Te Mara Multi-Res — Property Industry Awards 2024 / Nominee A scheme for terraced housing in Mount Roskill, Tāmaki Makaurau
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,…
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.
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…
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…
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…
STEP ISLAND LODGE 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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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