About Tennent Brown Architects

Tennent Brown is concerned with people, how our buildings and environments will affect their experience.

We design to uplift the quality of life, of work, play and wellbeing of those the buildings serve. Architecture is built around people, and every design is an individual's or organisation’s story: their hopes and aspirations for a building that is their own.

People entrust us with realising some expression of themselves, to translate that into built form. We take that seriously. Ours is an architecture of listening and understanding: a humanist architecture.

Key Team

HUGH TENNENT - FNZIA

Hugh is responsible for design direction of all major projects at Tennent Brown Architects and is recognised for his responsiveness to context and environment, and his expression of the human agenda of the projects. Hugh has been selected for numerous awards jurys and panels, convened the NZIA National Jury and lectured widely at conferences and speaking tours.

Particular areas of expertise include working across cultures, projects for Te Ao Māori , educational from early childhood to tertiary, reflective and religious space and sports buildings. Hugh was made a Fellow of the NZIA in 2002 and regularly lectures, tutors and critiques at VUW School of Architecture.

EWAN BROWN - BARCH Hons

Ewan joined Hugh as a director in 2003 and formed Tennent Brown Architects in 2006 with a background of complex commercial and public projects and specialises in university teaching space design. Ewan leads the Tennent Brown office on all VUW projects, some 100+ since 2003 and has a commitment to sustainability which is instilled in all our projects. He provides sustainability guidelines for Victoria University where he regularly lectures at the School of Architecture.

Ewan also places a great importance on design led projects combined with a rigorous management process, from strong design to clear documentation and through construction to completion. He enjoys working in a team environment combined with delivering on time and budget.

KEVIN LUX - BArch (Hons), MRIAI Registered

Kevin joined Tennent Brown in 2011 after registering as an architect during a five year period in Ireland, working on many significant projects including the complete refurbishment the Cork Opera House from 2008 to 2010. Kevin is an associate and senior architect at Tennent Brown responsible for delivering many of the larger complex commercial and institutional projects for the practice.

He offers very high levels of client service through understanding client goals and managing the delivery of complex project requirements, within programmatic aims. Kevin instills confidence and reliability in clients and projects teams with his capacity and manner of working, making him immensely valuable to projects and the practice.

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Architectural DesignCommercial ProjectsResidential Projects