Waikato Business News July/August 2019

Waikato architecture wows
A minimalist Japanese inspired home and
a refined bush lodge are just two of the
award-winning designs recognised in July
as winners of Waikato Regional ADNZ
Resene Architectural Design Awards.
Every year, the awards
celebrate innovative,
sustainable and exceptionally
designed projects from
around New Zealand. Awarding
designs in multiple categories,
the awards recognise residential,
commercial, alterations,
interiors and multi-use projects
designed by members of Architectural
Designers New Zealand
(ADNZ).
This year, nine awards were
presented to four designers in
the Waikato region. The winners
were Kris Wilson of Design
House Architecture Ltd, Tane
Cox of Red Architecture, Noel
Jessop of Noel Jessop Architecture
and Adam Taylor of Adam
Taylor ARCHITECTURE.
Kris Wilson was a major winner
on the night, receiving three
awards for two projects. His
design, EUCALYPT-HAUS,
won the Residential New Home
between 150m2 and 300m2
Architectural Design Award and
the Resene Colour in Design
Award. A Hamilton renovation
project also by Wilson titled
‘Test of Character’ received
the Residential Alterations and
Additions Architectural Design
Award.
EUCALYPT-HAUS sits
on an incredible Raglan site
with a backdrop of eucalyptus
trees and views of mountain
ranges and sea. A relaxed and
refined bush lodge, the design is
intended to be elegantly brutal.
Judges said the home sits
with assurance on its site, carefully
arranging angles, volumes,
and sightlines to choreograph
domestic life. This is demonstrated
from the welcoming
frontage facing the approach up
the long driveway, to the external
room that almost projects
residents out into the view.
Tane Cox of Red Architecture
received two architectural
design awards for Shibui
House in Tamahere. The home
received a Residential New
Home over 300m2 Architectural
Design Award and the Residential
Interiors Architectural
Design Award.
The brief for Shibui House
was for a sophisticated, modern
family home with generous
space and volume. Despite having
a large footprint, the spatial
arrangement needed to facilitate
intimate connections between
the space and people. It also
needed to create a sense of journey
and enhance the experience
of the client’s collection of artworks.
In response to this brief, the
Duncan & Ebbett - Volvo
Japanese discipline of shibui
was adopted for its celebration
of complexity and restraint.
The house has been stripped
of adornment and presents a
strong, minimal composition.
A detached asymmetric timber-shingled
ancillary building,
a gravel garden and a long path
create a minimalist, sculptural
approach to the house. Inside
the house, interiors have been
treated with the same shibui
principles.
Judges said the home tells
a coherent story through the
extraordinary commitment to its
concept.
“The use of colour is subtle,
with the delicate use of pinks
and the rich warm timber central
to the theme. This is a design
that strongly reflects the way the
clients want to live.”
Noel Jessop of Noel Jessop
Architecture received the Commercial/Industrial
Architectural
Design Award for his work on
the first free-standing Volvo
car dealership in New Zealand
called ‘Duncan & Ebbett –
Volvo’.
The design of the building
had to meet the international
corporate identity of the Volvo
brand, as well as creating a
space that would seamlessly
accommodate two other vehicle
brands.
Judges praised Jessop for
his pragmatic and functional
design, saying it expressed the
crisp, cool, precise qualities
associated with the brand.
In addition to the commercial/industrial
award, Noel
Jessop also received a Highly
Commended in the residential
new home between 150m2 and
300m2 category for his work on
Durham, and a Commended in
the residential new home over
300m2 category for his work on
a Hamilton project titled ‘Open
Home’.
Adam Taylor of Adam Taylor
ARCHITECTURE received
a highly commended in the new
home over 300m2 category
for his design, Pauanui Vice.
Sitting on a wide elbow site at
the extreme edge of Pauanui
waterways in the Coromandel,
the home is a refined executive
residence with incredible views
of canals, harbour and ranges
beyond.
Architectural Designers
New Zealand CEO Gregory
Watts said Waikato designers
were pushing boundaries and
reaping the rewards.
“In the new home over
300sqm category, three Waikato
designers received recognition.
This is highly unusual but
demonstrates the talent and
EUCALYPT-HAUS
innovation in the region. From
Japanese inspired minimalist
design, to car dealerships and
elegant homes of distinction,
the Waikato has wowed us all,”
says Watts.
Regional ADNZ Resene
Architectural Design Awards
are being held across the country
in the leadup to the national
ADNZ 2019 REGIONAL AWARD WINNER
DESIGNHOUSE.CO.NZ
awards. National award winners
and the Supreme Award winner
will be announced on Friday 18
October 2019 at a gala awards
ceremony in Queenstown.