2025 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Te Mānia
Conceived as an ‘anti-house’, this project challenges convention through three buildings dispersed across the site. The pivotal social pavilion is extroverted and sculptural, its pinwheel of apertures frame and connecting with the landscape. Clad in patinaed weathering steel, it encloses a luxuriously detailed interior of dark timber, stone, and angled planes that create dynamic spatial experiences. In contrast, two semi-buried bedroom sanctuaries are recessive and serpentine, their off-shutter concrete and light-toned interiors forming cocoon-like retreats. Idiosyncratic and assertive, the project redefines the retreat typology.
- Practice
- Stevens Lawson Architects Ltd
- Category
- Hospitality
- Location
- Gisborne/Hawkes Bay
