2023 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Ponsonby House
This bold addition to a heritage streetscape contributes much to the debate around preserving Victorian design ideals. The small site is used wisely and responds well to planning restrictions, with an elevated gable emerging from a rectilinear base that presents a unique and light-hearted profile to the street. Internally, planning adjacencies dispense with traditional approaches – opening directly to rear living spaces, then out to the landscaped garden and pool. This approach, the use of light colour tones and superb levels of natural light, give the perception of greater volume than is provided on the lower levels. This new home is an excellent example of subtle disregard for the rules, executed in a delightful way.
- Practice
- Gerrad Hall Architects Ltd
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Auckland
