2019 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Nelson House Alteration
Respectful restoration and skillful intervention have brought new and joyful life to a little-known house designed by Ernst Plischke, one of the most important figures in New Zealand modernist architecture. The architect has worked with a light touch and disciplined restraint, excavating through accretions to capture the spirit of Plischke’s original intent. Sufficiency, not superfluity, is the hallmark of this project: the architect understood just how much had to be done, and undone, to revive the early Sixties house. The architect worked assiduously in meeting her clients’ requirements and informing their expectations, and in steering an unusual modernist heritage project through Council processes.
- Practice
- Sharon Jansen - Architect
- Category
- Heritage
- Location
- Nelson/Marlborough
