JERUSHA RAZEY
Maungārongo in Tauranga, designed by TOA Architects and built by Totara Construction, won an NZIA Waikato/Bay of Plenty Housing Award and a national Master Builders award in 2020 for each firm, respectively.
Trailblazing Māori architects, such as the late John Scott and Rewi Thompson, would be impressed - the work being done by their followers has taken on a new significance in recent years, as architects strive to create stronger, more meaningful connections between the built environment, tangata (people) and whenua (land). It’s enough of a change to lead Māori architect Nicholas Dalton, principal of Tāmaki Makaurau Office (TOA) Architecture, to describe it as a “powerful point in history”.
EDDIE SIMON MEDIA
Architect Tim Nees of New Work Studio has just completed his own new home, at Taylor’s Mistake in Christchurch. The architect said he painted it white because he didn t want another black house .
Christchurch architect Tim Nees has just completed his own house on the hill at Taylor’s Mistake – a small seaside community known for its quaint weatherboard baches and cave homes. But there’s no mistaking the new Nees house – it’s the bright white, modern building that sits lightly on the ground among the trees and bushes. The vertical board cladding references the old baches, but it’s the architect’s reason for the colour that’s especially interesting.