2024 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Villa1899
This addition to an 1899 brick heritage villa set within a leafy Christchurch suburb is achieved with skill and sensitivity. A garden room and floating pergola mediate the transition from house to garden, contrasting with the age and solidity of the villa but achieving harmony through rich materiality, texture, craft and play of light and shadow. The living spaces are intimately scaled with inventive details and carefully frame views of the garden. This elegant home provides an inspired example for contemporary additions to heritage houses.
- Practice
- Borrmeister Architects Limited
- Category
- Housing - Alterations and Additions
- Location
- Canterbury
