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Speargrass House / Sumich Chaplin Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Our client relocated from Sydney, Australia to Queenstown, New Zealand, and wanted a family home and lifestyle to raise their young boys. They wished to create an environment that immersed their family in rural living with the opportunity to take full advantage of farm life and the activities on offer in the Wakatipu community.

"Unsettling Queenstown:" The Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 Explores Themes of Decolonization

Nour Fakharany — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 05:30:00 +0000

At this year’s International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Australian Institute of Architects will present Unsettling Queenstown. Tackling themes of decolonization, the exhibition is a multi-faceted and multi-sensory installation. Creative directors Anthony Coupe, Julian Worrall, Emily Paech, Ali Gumillya Baker, and Sarah Rhode have curated this exhibition as a response to the overarching theme of the Biennale – "The Laboratory of the Future." Moreover, Unsettling Queenstown will encourage audiences to imagine the future and its possibilities.

Pouaka Waikura House / Patterson Associates

Hana Abdel — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 01:00:00 +0000

The 1.8-hectare site is a naturally formed terrace snuggled into the gentle north-sloping base of Queenstown Hill, overlooking the untamed Shotover River which disappears around the bend. The clients are staunch locals, having spent most of their life in a modest cottage on the same road. They have owned the site for twenty years; planting and tending to the now mature grapes on the terraces above the site. They sought a permanent home here, a home for a lifestyle of mature years in the country, making wine, and tinkering with old cars.

Tom’s House / Anna-Marie Chin Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000

The client’s brief was for a small, compact and quirky building accentuating views and light, to challenge the design rules of Jack’s Point. Stage one of two small complimentary staged buildings, one to live in and one to rent. To utilise clever use of space integrating storage in hidden areas, challenging spatial requirements for two bedrooms with small niche spaces that can be converted into sleeping areas or just sitting spaces.

New Zealand Luxury Lodge Features Panoramic Views of Lake Wakatipu

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 05:30:00 +0000

Design Base Architects have shared new details of Waimarino Luxury Lodge, a development on the shores of Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, New Zealand. The high-end accommodation aspires to create a sustainable destination and an eco-conscious property that connects with nature through villas topped with living roofs. Waimarino – Maori for Still Waters – aims to be a modern, minimalist luxury that reimagines traditional hunting style lodges dotted across New Zealand.

St Marks Lane House / Dorrington Atcheson Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 26 May 2020 01:00:00 +0000

A new build in Queenstown featuring stunning views of The Remarkables and Lake Wakatipu inspired a unique house to complement the setting.

Alpine Terrace House / Fearon Hay Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 19:00:00 +0000

The initial brief for this project required a sanctuary from which to take in the alpine landscape, one that could engage with view of mountain ranges to all sides while offering protection from the harsh extremes of an alpine terrace. The scheme arranges four rectangular building forms around a central courtyard.

Closeburn Station House / Warren and Mahoney

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Set within a high country station, with views over Lake Wakatipu and the dramatic mountain ranges beyond, this Closeburn home is designed as a series of simple forms.
A cedar-clad bedroom wing and zinc clad family wing run along existing ridge lines to the north and east of the site.

Dublin Street / Kerr Ritchie

Javier Gaete — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This home sits on a sloping site above Queenstown with spectacular views south to the Remarkable Ranges, to Bowen Peak and to the town and the lake below. The client requested a house unlike many of the other monolithic plaster houses in the neighbourhood.

Coburn Residence / Harris Butt Architecture

Nico Saieh — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The client’s brief was straightforward in terms of accommodation and revolved around the need to have a large open entertaining area associated with outdoor spaces (including a lap pool) with separate areas for the master suit and guests bedrooms. Although it this is a family home, long term the house could become a “boutique hotel” – the design needed to take this into account. The house had to relate to the spectacular landscape with easy access to surrounding patios and visual connection to the mountains and lake. The form was to be timeless and reflect the qualities of the regional architecture.

22 Oei Tiong Ham Park / AR43 Architects

Nico Saieh — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The design for the house commenced in the year 2009 and was completed in May 2011. Sited within a leafy up-market housing estate, it sits on a 1200 m2 linear plot of land that was originally part of a larger estate before sub-division. The house is hence hidden away from the main road and approached via a short access road that is shared by the immediate neighbor.

Mountain Retreat / Fearon Hay Architects

Nico Saieh — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0000

The mountain retreat is a small structure set within a high country station occupying 1,300 hectares on the south facing shores of Lake Wakatipu, Central Otago. This region of New Zealand is also known as the Southern Lakes. It is an alpine environment formed by heavily glaciated schist mountainscapes and vegetated below the snow line with beech forest. Early European occupation of the region began in 1840 with explorers seeking to extend pastoral activities established in the gentler environments to the north and east of the Southern Alps. This occupation was intensified by the discovery of the Central Otago goldfields in the early 1860's. Both forms of occupation constructed structures for shelter and utility with the stackable weathered schist readily available around the rivers and glaciated mountain slopes.

Drift Bay House / Kerr Ritchie Architects

Nico Saieh — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This family home was designed as a single fluid form that reclines into the sloping landscape on the edge of Lake Wakatipu. The long black form shifts and expands to suit the sun, the occupants' needs and the site.