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The clients had spent a long time in a delightful coastal home we renovated 20 years ago. They called us 3 years ago and said they wanted to “change the station”. The architecture celebrates the buildings’ history, strong form and generous volumes. Elegant double-PFC portals were placed within the existing structural bays and cloaked with an iteration of our ply “woven pacific ceiling”. 

Along with most other finishes the ceiling is in subdued natural/industrial hues, allowing the owners’ art collection to shine.

With new apartments sprouting up in the vicinity, we have included banks of skylights and splashes of coloured glass to imbue the interior with ever changing light patterns. Upon arriving home, one is secure, relaxed and enchanted within this urban whare. 

They no longer hear the waves and smell the sea as they awake. However the family can now tell whether the wind in a southerly or northerly, simply by whether they can detect the aroma Havana or L’affare coffee roasting! 

Turn the music up. I like this new station.


Awards: 
Winner: NZIA Resene Local Architecture Award 2019 (Housing Alts & Adds) 
Winner: Registered Master Builders Local Supreme Award for Renovation 2019   

John Mills Architects
Wellington

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JMA has been operating in Wellington, New Zealand since 1990. It has a distinctive aesthetic that seeks to combine our passion for materials and colour with a desire to create uniquely tailored architecture for the individual or specific organisation. The studio has completed projects around New Zealand, including Auckland and Nelson.

The team endeavours to create architecture that speaks of its sites and surroundings, with grace, poetry and personality – unencumbered by blind conformity and dictates of transient fashion. JMA works together with clients and builders to craft beautiful forms and engaging spaces that make the heart leap and the soul sing.

Practicality and comfort are so fundamental to quality building, form and space. The heart should leap, the eyes should widen and the soul should sing. This is the aim of architecture.

At ArchiPro we recognise and acknowledge the existing, original and ancient connection Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have to the lands and waterways across the Australian continent. We pay our respects to the elders past and present. We commit to working together to build a prosperous and inclusive Australia.