2021 Waikato/Bay of Plenty Architecture Awards Winner
Somerset Studio
This modernist studio in double-height, concrete tilt slab was conceived as a multifunctional extension to the owner’s restaurant. Its purpose is twofold: a luxury overnight retreat and a private dining room in which to host personalised events. Its design and functionality clearly achieve both aims. Turning its back on busy Bethlehem Road, the studio takes in a gully vista of established planting and native bird life, which can also be spied through the cleverly inserted window in the upstairs bathroom. This counterpoint is very successful in creating a restful retreat in a built-up urban environment, and its form achieves the intention of announcing itself to be “unlike any domestic neighbour”.
- Practice
- John Henderson Architecture Ltd
- Category
- Small Project Architecture
- Location
- Waikato/Bay of Plenty
