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…
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…
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.
BOATHOUSE BAY Snells Beach A medium density development designed for Special Projects Team at the Snells Beach settlement, north of Auckland. A variety of compact housing plan types are provided, designed in cert with the site layout and masterplanning. The design reflects a traditional boatshed typology, with a contemporary overlay of materials and building forms. Efficient…
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…
Paper House
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…
Jewellery Box — 2023 NZIA Local Awards / Alterations and additions / Winner
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
Crosson Ponsonby Office 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 changing face of Tāmaki Makaurau.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
ONEHUNGA HOUSE Auckland
STATION HOUSE Wanaka
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…
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…
ONEHUNGA HOUSE 2 Auckland
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.
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…
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…
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…
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
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…