Awards

Low House

'This is a simple, elegant home. Its modern pavilion form is elongated for optimal solar orientation and extensive panoramic views. Mass concentrated at the ends of the structure provides a sense of openness within, while the materials selected provide a visually attractive balance of texture and colour. The low roof pitch helps the building blend in with its surroundings, and the understated interior further reinforces the impression of a well-mannered family home.'

DOC Viewing Shelter - Bridal Veil Falls

'This shelter's sculptural form echoes the natural landforms around it and provides a creative response to a unique design challenge. Its inherent simplicity complements the bush setting and ensures that the viewing platform enhances the experience of visiting the waterfall. Clever use of heavy and light supporting struts adds to the impression that the shelter is suspended above the ground, creating an intimate, ethereal presence.'

Darroch Valuation Fitout

'Retrofitting an older style building can prove challenging. This retrofit has taken advantage of the restricted space and utilised glass and materials to give detailing to a professional office space with traditional single offices.'

Foster Head Office

'Treading the fine line between showmanship and workmanship, this building company head office speaks volumes for the contractor’s full range of talents. Combining a range of small associated business tenancies with a bright, approachable shared reception, consistent and robust detailing is carried through both public and private work spaces. The well proportioned simple building form easily houses trade work spaces with professional offices, at the same time offering an outstanding corporate image for the company.'

'The use of natural timber to give associations of superior quality, mixed with an understated elegance of materials and colour emphasizes how appropriately the architects have matched this building to its intended clients.'

LMW Insurance Office Fitout

'A meandering river design theme, complete with backwater eddy gathering places, providing a logical easy flow planning framework for this open plan workplace environment – one that enjoys the right mix of comfort and stimulation simultaneously.

The fluid concept extends cleverly through all levels of detail and material choice to create a very complete example of excellent interior design, and one that is clearly appreciated by the office users and clients alike.'

Mount Maunganui Fire Station

'MSM Architects have produced an interesting building in a residential environment by complimenting the surrounding rather than conflicting with it. The architecture has been sculptured out of a simple box form which addresses the functional requirements of the fire station. Its well executed response has delighted the New Zealand Fire Service by being one of the only fire stations nationwide to come in under budget.'

Hamilton International Airport Terminal

'Transforming an older, well outdated facility but retaining expressive elements of the older structure, this terminal offers all of the qualities of order and clarity demanded by the modern traveler. The success of the see-through structure is embraced by the client and the demanding security brief is met without loosing a fresh, human scale to the detail.'

The H House

"The clients are very focused on family and we wanted the house to reflect that in every way"

'This is a skillfully crafted country home carefully structured around the client’s notion of inclusive family living and entertaining. This house cleverly supports the client’s concept of open family living by removing the traditional solid walls that separate the children’s area from the rest of the house. Formal and informal areas of the house have been linked together by glazed partitions around a double height living space that all share expansive views of the Waikato country side.'

'External splashes of colour have been used with restraint, successfully contrasting with the green rolling hills of the Waikato countryside. Internally, colour has been carefully considered and applied to compliment the client’s art collection.'

Durham Estate Subdivision

"Doing something different from the norm hasn’t been easy – at one point I had to hire my own crew to shift boulders and river stones you see around you. We did it ourselves, by hand – it was bloody hard work".

'The outcome of this pioneering urban design project is a testament to the vision of the client and collaboration and commitment of the architect, landscape architect and council staff. This project openly explores alternative ways to shape our new urban environments. Natural river terraces have been maintained to provide a range of alternative building platforms with unique characteristics. The treatment of traffic islands, kerbs and driveways has been carefully articulated by the clever use of landscaping and lighting that blur the traditional notion of the street.'