City House wins an Auckland Architecture Award in the NZIA Architecture Awards 2016 announced last night at the Onehunga Heliport, Auckland. This award in the housing category is the second award for the project, designed with Andrew Kissell. The judges citation reads:
“The atmosphere of a converted warehouse pervades this new building, a home for two architects and their children. The future-forward, flexible design keeps options open for future habitation and potentially even a change in typology to retail or hospitality. Light from full height windows or filtered through polycarbonate walls, permeates the interior’s simple and generous spaces and the robust selection of materials – fine black steel, plywood and concrete – is offset by surprising city outlooks and a ‘walled garden’, a secret garden, sunny and private, that is haven from the inner city.”
http://www.nzia.co.nz/awards/new-zealand-architecture-awards/local-architecture-awards.aspx?page=3#