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Design: Irving Smith Jack Architects. From a context of accrued simple shed-esk dwellings in an isolated and south facing New Zealand coastal surf community, a strategy of sequencing building ‘sets’ (aka surf) was generated to scale new form to its surrounds
Design: Woods Bagot, architects. This precinct is one of the few anchor projects in the Christchurch Blueprint that will be utilised on a daily basis by both Christchurch citizens and visitors and therefore must be meaningful to both audiences.
Design: Dorrington Atcheson Architects. Taking its design cues from the utilitarian forms of a tent and a shed, this Titirangi home for an extended family is a duo of compact buildings that uses a humble set of materials to allow the landscape its rightful place in the scheme.
Design: MRTN Architects. Situated in a new development less than an hour from Auckland this new house was one of the first built on a flat site that has been split up to create well sized semi-suburban semi-coastal sections on what was once rural land.
Design: Strachan Group Architects. On a tight, compact urban site, close to Takapuna Beach in Auckland, New Zealand, the three- stepped gables of these black ‘boatsheds’ appropriately reference boating and beach life.
Design: Strachan Group Architects. Having bought a farm building in Karaka, near Auckland, NZ, the clients wanted to convert the building into a 3 bedroom home with space for guests. They wanted a contemporary house that would blend in with the surroundings.
Design: Herbst Architects. New photos of this building designed for occupation in the summer months. Boundaries between the built form and nature are challenged to heighten the experience of immersion in nature. The architects reference the nostalgia surrounding the “Kiwi bach”.
Design: The Buchan Group, Architects. Premium wine brand showcase – polished concrete counters coloured to mirror Hurunui stone from the local riverbed, while the counter dips to follow the alignment of the gully across which the vineyard spans.
Design: The Buchan Group, Architects. The first stage of the NZ$130 million Five Mile Retail Centre development at the gateway to Queenstown has begun welcoming residents and visitors alike, converting the site from an abandoned eyesore into an enticing state-of-the-art shopping precinct.
Design: The Buchan Group, Architects. The former Hydro Grand Hotel, now dilapidated, in the heart of Timaru will make way for a $42 million hotel, apartment and corporate office complex with three separate buildings.
Mott MacDonald Architects is designing 85 Customs Street, a new mixed-use development in Auckland, New Zealand on behalf of Shundi Customs Limited. Once complete, the 52-storey residential tower will become the city’s tallest, adding a new dynamic to the skyline.
Design: The Buchan Group. Global architectural, interior and graphic design firm The Buchan Group has relocated its new Christchurch office to 144 Kilmore Street, a building it also designed.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. The government remediation of New Zealand’s “most contaminated site”, a former chemical fertilizer plant in the small rural town of Mapua, left the site bare, emotionally scarred, unused and fiscally under resourced.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. Following recent development of new commercial outlets away from Whakatane’s town centre, Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre relocates public facilities back into the centre to revitalize an area of big box retail and carparking left devoid of urban life.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. This innovative timber building provides an uplifting environment for learning; an economic community asset and a sustainable solution to the provision of tertiary education facilities.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. An architect’s house is a thing to play with, a bit like life. Perhaps even more so when its an architecture inherited almost unchanged from Alec Bowman’s original 1960 design for a retired couple, and now in dire need of simple things like a kitchen, spaces to fit a family, and a connection to the garden.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. A house after the quakes. One creative home comes down, another goes up, the new silhouetting the old, reminding, resettling.