2015 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Muriwai House
Significantly outshining its pedestrian neighbours in every way, this confident hilltop building uses a hunkered-down, shelter-from-the storm language that is entirely appropriate to its exposed cliff-edge site high above Muriwai beach. It is careful to capture and frame the spectacular views but its confident use of in situ poured concrete and wood also reassures occupants that the house can ride out the wildest storms the Tasman can throw at it. Inside, the house’s volumes are airy, elegant and restrained in their considered use of materials, lending the building a sense of calm, solidity and poise.
- Practice
- Godward Guthrie Architecture Limited
- Category
- Residential Architecture - Houses
- Location
- Auckland
