2019 Western Architecture Awards Winner
McCallum House (1965)
The McCallum House, the home of architect Don McCallum, is located in the Turere Place Modern Houses Precinct. The Whanganui cul-de-sac is notable for its abundance of significant modernist dwellings, including the Heaton and Williams Houses also designed by McCallum. Using a modest, modernist vernacular – steel framing, concrete block walls, and ample glazing – the architect established a house that sits easily in the landscape and enjoys a close connection to its surrounds. There is delight in this house, in the clarity of its planning and its domestic scale, and the demarcation of space. It is a house of its time that has also been able to change with the times without loss of spirit.
