2024 Southern Architecture Awards Winner
Wānaka S.K.I House
A stark blank façade gives no hint of the riches within – a restrained material palette of half-height concrete blocks, Japanese cedar and oak floors with raw galvanised steel. The cedar cladding has undergone yaki-sugi treatment, while the same cedar has been left raw inside. Complete with a Japanese-style courtyard garden, the talented design team has created a stunner with their first project, thanks to fantastically friendly client – their parents. While this house may be spending the kids’ inheritance, the integrity of design decisions and assured quality of the finished product suggests money well spent. This house is a masterpiece – the architects are likely to be the vanguard of the future.
- Practice
- Roberts Gray Architects Ltd.
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Southern
