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Cowes Primary School / Project 12 Architecture

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

The brief was to provide a new competition-grade gymnasium for Cowes Primary School. The design specifically addresses the educational objectives of the school and provides a facility that can be used by the broader community on Phillip Island. The new gymnasium has been designed to accommodate the whole school community and operate in a range of functions.

Owhanake Bay House / Strachan Group Architects

Nico Saieh — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Located on Waiheke Island, a 19km ferry journey from down-town Auckland, the Owhanake Bay house hunkers-down below a ridge line at the head of a gully. Slowing to the pace of “island life”, the house turns its back on the city to engage the view east over the outer islands of the Hauraki Gulf.

Finn House / WoodWoodWard Architecture

Kritiana Ross — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Nestled in amongst the tee trees and coastal scrub on the Silverleaves foreshore is a pair of glistening red fins – a bold response to the client’s brief for a “grand gesture on limited means”.
Commissioned by the architect’s parents – a horticulturalist and owner of a timber mill respectively – their desire was for a “house by the beach, rather than a beach house” with sitting spaces for all seasons, morning or afternoon “to chase the sun, or escape it.”
Reminiscent of a Serra sculpture, the two striking red glazed-brick blade walls cut through the site, organising program into linear bands including a services strip, private program and public program.

Korora / Daniel Marshall Architects

Nico Saieh — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A ridge stretching between the Hauraki Gulf and the pastoral landscape of Waiheke Island provided a stunning, and challenging, context in which to design a home.