Waiheke House by Cheshire Architects
16 May 2024
Cheshire Architects devise a spectacular coastal home on Waiheke that carefully balances enclosure and sociability.
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Cheshire Architects devise a spectacular coastal home on Waiheke that carefully balances enclosure and sociability.
The Home of the Year 2024 awards evening at Studio Italia was an event of celebration, creativity and innovation.
The overall winner and Home of the Year 2024 is Boathouse Bay by Crosson Architects, an exemplary model of multi-unit design embodying the quest for community living through a marriage of architecture, landscape, and master-planning.
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The finalists are revealed. View each of the finalist homes in the 2022 Home of the Year awards programme.
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A mature and restrained response to an awe-inspiring location. The architect has combined a wide range of influences — from Sri Lankan to her own, impressive international career — to achieve a quintessentially local response to site, context, and history.
A challenging tight suburban site competently handled via good planning, excellent control of views and nice separation of guest quarters from the main house by bridge.
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