Tahunanui House

Awards

2021

Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Nelson Marlborough Award; Housing Alterations and Additions

Publications

2021

‘NZ Local Architecture Awards 2021’ Architecture New Zealand, September/October, pg 93
“Winners of the 2021 Local Architecture awards for two more regions inside”, Architecture Now, https://architecturenow.co.nz, 17.5.2021
Adrienne Matthews, ‘Te Kahui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Local Architecture Awards’, Nelson Magazine, July 2021, pgs 60-63

Good people make buildings sing and this old house sang its best. It was a happy home, full of art, adventure and adhoc; all despite having an entry that walked past bedrooms, circulation without light and a garden that was hard to find. “Privacy would help and some straightening please, just not of the querk.”

So in 2008 a plan was drawn to stage a lengthening of the house’s contribution and workings; to improve things, add more family spaces, allow light to lead circulation, and the garden to be developed and gradated to the house.

12 years and 2 big and many little stages later the personality remains in the fun and the play. There’s new joinery from old joinery and old joinery turned new. There’s art, plants and life as the new additions and alterations extend and add to the song with warmth, wallpaper and welcome.

Good people deserve good houses to make sing.