penthouse apartment alteration with Arthouse Architects
NZIA Nelson Marlborough Architecture Award 2022 - Housing - Alterations and Additions
Resene Colour Award 2022
Builder: Ferguson Contracting
Joiner: Living Design
Photos: Virginia Woolf
“This project is a refined example of architecture that is made by taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary. The architects have moulded a fastidiously detailed, wholistic environment into the existing shell. The attention to detail is so complete that it is almost transcendent. It feels like they were aiming for perfection — always a risky approach, but in this case, it was a risk worth taking. The result is aesthetically very beautiful, but the experience is a pervading sense of calm. This level of craft only occurs with aroha, commitment, and respect. It is a testament to all involved.”
NZIA Jury Citation
“The restrained and subtle use of colour consistent throughout, highlights the owners’ artwork and natural materials, including steel granite and timber. Much care and consideration has been taken with colour, and also the texture of every surface, to create an environment that is welcoming, calming and pervades a sense of unassuming high-quality permanence.”
Resene Jury Citation