‘Oh Vienna’ Where do we live tomorrow?
Christopher Kelly examines Vienna’s ‘affordability of everyday life’ and recommends an amalgam of supply and demand-led housing solutions that Aotearoa should pursue if we are at all serious about our...
NZIA - Western Architecture Awards at Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth
Te Matapihi- Bulls Comunity Centre received a NZIA Western Architecture Award in the public architecture category. The awards ceremony was held at Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth, a very impressive venue...
The Lindis - Lap of Luxury
INSPIRATION for The Lindis: The architecture draws inspiration from the imposing grandeur of the vastly scaled landscape and the weaving folded moraine topography that ensued across the valley-a re...
We are hiring
We are looking for architects who can add a layer of thinking to a project. Someone starting out who is a graduate of architecture with good digital skills and/or someone who is registered and wants t...
Antipodes HQ makes Top 5 commercial projects 2020
Antipodes HQ (Ghuznee St_Wellington), is featured as one of ArchitectureNow's five most-viewed commercial projects in 2020. Since its completion at the end of 2019 it continues to be held up as an exa...
Te Matapihi Bulls Community Centre - Connecting Community
The notion of river as metaphor is an ancient one, the sort of archetype born, perhaps, of their power and our presence alongside them – that the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges speaks of in ‘The B...
"First THAB off the rank" - social equitable housing
Christopher Kelly's article “First THAB of the Ranks” written for Architecture NZ has been published in ArchitectureNow_December 2020. Christopher reviews the socially equitable Jasmax-designed, 26 Ar...
Christopher Kelly / AW - Practice in Profile
Christopher Kelly reflects on wilfulness and how Architecture Workshop navigates its way by a series of design intents. As the cliché goes, the concept – usually a ‘divine moment of inspiration’ by t...
Remembering Billy Apple Joint Project
Our 'golden section' on the 'golden mile' project. Giles, who made this fabulous model when he was a student with Architectus in Auckland, has reminded me with this image commemorating Billy's passing...
Bulls Community Centre - Opening
The grand opening for the Bulls Community Centre was held on Friday 25 September. The centre has created a lot of interest in the years of fundraising and planning with the contractors, W&W Construct...
The World Winery Collection
The World Winery Collection_a travel guide to contemporary architecture all over the world, was published at the end of June. Peregrine Winery has been featured over four pages with descriptions of t...
Interior Awards - finalists announced
The initial round of judging for the Interior Awards 2020 has been completed and the judges reported the highest ever number of entries this year. Antipodes is one of the 37 projects that has been sho...
NZIA Wellington Regional Award
Antipodes Skincare Heritage Refurbishment received two NZIA _Wellington Regional Awards on 22 July. The judges citation capture the project superbly. Category: Commercial Architecture Judges Citatio...
Timber Design and Technology - Middle East
"Design draws inspiration from the imposing grandeur of the vastly scaled glacial landscape." A four page profile of The Lindis Lodge has been published in the Timber Design and Technology magazine...
Antipodes Headquarters Butterfly Effect
ArchitectureNow have published a unique article on Antipodes Skincare Headquarters Refurbishment. Sharon Stephenson emphasises the ‘metamorphosis’ the heritage art deco building underwent during the A...
2020 Wellington Architecture Awards shortlist announced
The refurbishment of 103 Ghuznee Street for Antipodes Skincare new head office (completed Oct 2019) has been shortlisted for two NZIA Wellington Architecture Awards: Commercial Heritage We look for...
"Medihotels"_an evolving definition of wellbeing?
The first 'medihotel' is being built in WA, Australia. Construction on the five star Green Star rated building will begin later in 2020 and is expected to be complete in 2022. What is a medihotel? : ...
Enginering timber Innovation Award. Nailed it ... or is that screwlammed it!
Despite Covid-19 keeping the AW team out of our studio, we celebrated receiving the Engineering Innovation Award and highly commended for the Overall Supreme Award for Lindis Lodge at the 2020 NZ Wood...
AW - Steady as she goes...
During this period of global stress and uncertainty, we’d like you to know that Architecture Workshop plans to maintain business as usual. For those of you working with us in the coming months, this ...
AHEAD Award - Lindis Lodge
Architecture Workshop was been awarded the AHEAD "Lodges, Cabins and Tented Camp" category for the Lindis Lodge. AHEAD (Awards for Hospitality, Experience and Design) are judged and attended by leadi...
We need VOTES ... Lindis Lodge
The Lindis Lodge has been selected as one of the finalists in the ArchDaily Building of the Year 2020 Awards. Over 4000 projects were nominated and ArchDaily readers narrowed this down to 75 finalist...
What's in store for the next decade?
Thank you to our collaborators and friends for a successful 2019. We have had a great year winning recognition for two projects at different ends of the spectrum. The Lindis Lodge, a luxury five beds...
Winner World Architecture Festival, Amsterdam
Christopher Kelly attended the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam in December 2019 to present the Lindis Lodge which was a shortlisted finalist in two categories: Best Hotel and Leisure, and U...
"New digs for Antipodes ..."
It is rewarding to see Architecture Workshops clients proudly showing off their new premises. Antipodes HQ has moved into their heritage building "Antipodes House" on Wellington's Ghuznee Street afte...
NZIA National Award - Public Architecture
Architecture Workshop is proud to receive the NZIA National Public Architecture Award for Lakeside Memorial Hall. Judges Citation: "The Lakeside Soldiers Memorial Hall replaces the original 1917 hal...
NZIA National Award - Hospitality
The NZIA National award for the Lindis Lodge was proudly received by Architecture Workshop. We have been excited to see the international recognition in the year since Lindis Lodge opened and pleased ...
WAF - Best Use of Certified Timber Prize
The Lindis Lodge has been shortlisted from 39 worldwide projects. The prize rewards architects for their use of certified timber as a main construction material for buildings outstanding in sustainabi...
Lakeside Soldiers Memorial Hall
Architecture New Zealand (Sep/Oct ed) features Lakeside Soldiers Memorial Hall. Ian Lochhead has written a reflective article on the history and strong links the original hall built in 1917 had to the...
Congratulations ... Brosnan Construction
Brosnan Construction won the New Zealand Building Industry Award for the $8-25million category for the Lindis Lodge. Judges Citation: "This was a totally unique and difficult project, delivered by...
Bulls Community Centre ... stairs
At the last Bulls Community Centre site meeting we got our first view of the centre stairs. The steel stairs were manufactured off site and had to be dropped by crane into the building from above. It...
ArchDaily reviews the Lindis Lodge
The Lindis Lodge is attracting a good deal of attention from international architecture publications for Architecture Workshop. ArchDaily, described as 'the worlds most visited architecture website',...
Wilderness .... Lindis Lodge
The Lindis Lodge is architecture "inspired by the grandeur of the landscape and the weaving, folded moraine topography of the Ahuriri Valley". Architecture NZ magazine editor, Chris Barton, visited...
WAF announce the 2019 Award finalists
The Lindis Lodge by Architecture Workshop has been announced as a finalist in the World of Architecture Festival Hotel and Leisure – Completed Buildings Category ... “Luxury Lodge in the Ahururi Valle...
NZIA (Southern) Hospitality Architecture Award
On 7 June, NZIA Southern Region awarded AW with the Hospitality Architecture Award for The Lindis Lodge. Judges Citation: "This exclusive high country retreat illustrates how a stunning location can...
Bulls Community Centre
We work alongside many skilled contractors in our projects. Here is Hector Grant of W&W Construction testing a new screw type to drill through 12.7mm CHS Steel Plate. The best way to fix the timber w...
Viridian - WGANZ Award
Congratulations from AW to Viridian (with Millers design) for receiving the 2019 Supreme Award at the recent WGANZ (Window and Glass Association of NZ) Awards for The Lindis. Judges Citation: "... a...
MiNDFOOD covers The Lindis
We enjoy seeing AW projects covered in NZ lifestyle magazines ... and The Lindis Lodge is given a wonderful review in July ed of MiNDFOOD (p72-76). "Combining spectacular architecture and breathtakin...
NZIA (Canterbury) Public Architecture award
On 6 June, NZIA Canterbury awarded AW with the Public Architecture Award for Lakeside Soldiers Memorial Hall. Judges Citation: "This well considered piece of work shows a deep understanding and resp...
Bulls Community Centre
The Rangitikei District Councils Community Centre in Bulls which encompasses the Town Hall, i-Site, tourism office and Learning Hub (library) is above ground! After collaborative design input between...
The Lindis Lodge ... "The Best New Hotels in the World"
The Lindis Group are feeling famous with all the global magazine cover pages The Lindis Lodge is featuring on. The latest, Afar, has put it as one of The Best New Hotels in the World. What an honour ....
Lindis Lodge - House & Garden UK Cover
We are proud the recently completed Lindis Lodge in Ahuriri Valley NZ was featured on the front cover of the April edition of UK House and Garden (UK) - Hotels by Design. The article captured the ess...
Lakeside Soldiers Memorial Hall - NZIA Award Jury Visit
On 13 March, the NZIA Jury visited Lakeside Memorial Hall which AW entered into the 2019 New Zealand Architecture Awards. The Hall was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on 1 February 20...
The Lindis Lodge
'The Lindis' Lodge, a recently completed five bed suite luxury lodge in the Ahuriri Valley, North Otago, designed by Christopher Kelly Founder and Principal of Architecture Workshop, has been reviewed...
"Banal and Unadventurous"
Every year the NZIA Southern Branch holds a lecture series in memory of the renown Otago architect Ted McCoy. Christopher Kelly, the principal from Architecture Workshop, was invited to give this yea...
Urbanism – ‘Joining the dots’
Christopher Kelly presented a case study at the Urbanism NZ Conference held in Wellington on 14/15 May 2018. The theme of the conference was ‘Joining the Dots’. In the words of the 2018 Urbanism NZ A...
Benchmarking population density targets
On 6 April, Christopher Kelly gave a presentation at the 7x7 talks evening hosted by Nick Gerritsen at the Ministry of Environment. The presentation supported the aspirational low rise density propos...
A Decade of Transformative Architecture
The Architecture Workshop designed Waitomo Glowworm Caves Visitors Centre has been included as one of the 10 most Transformative Architecture projects showcasing New Zealand in the last decade. More i...
Aucklanders Voted Axis Small Home as the 'Home for the Future'
"Aucklander's housing preferences are changing", discovers the Auckland Design Manual, who recently held an exhibition at the NZ Festival of Architecture in order to explore the 'future of housing'. ...
Increased Funding for Lakeside Memorial Hall
Damaged in 2010 earthquakes and demolished thereafter, the old hall had formed the hub of the small community near Leeston as explained by the Lakeside Soldiers Memorial Hall Management Committee (LMH...
Christopher Kelly on the Judging Panel of 2016 Dulux Intergrain Timber Awards
Recently, Christopher Kelly spent a day in Sydney, locked in a room with articulate strangers, sorting rapidly through 191 entries for the Dulux Intergrain Timber Awards- a sort of beauty pageant, but...
Civic Ambition: Every City Needs an Eiffel Tower
Located on Taranaki Street, the current wharf dive platform creates much enjoyment for those who muster the courage to hurl themselves into the icy harbour as well as for the excited spectators sittin...
Small Scale Detached Housing: The Vision of What is Possible
In August 2015, as part of a conversation about the suburb, Christopher Kelly presented Architecture Workshop’s housing designs for volume house builder Universal. The presentation was part of the Hou...
AW Refurbishment Project at the Tuhitarata Estate, Wairarapa
Architecture Workshop refurbished a heritage barn and built new shearers quarters for guest accommodation at the Tuhitarata Estate in the South Wairarapa. This link to the wedding website 'Lacewood' s...
Peregrine Winery: 12 Years On
A laid-back summer vibe from Fat Freddies Drop at Peregrine Winery in the Gibbston Valley Otago. Twelve years ago, when we were imagining the sorts of hybrid uses we could generate from the winery inf...
Architecture Workshop Inspects Ahuriri Valley Lodge Prototype
Inspecting a full-scale prototype of the Ahuriri Valley Lodge project in Lund’s Dunedin yard. As you can see from our exploded layer drawing, the complex geometry of the building is primarily defined ...
Infrastructure Works Get Underway in the Ahuriri Valley
Lund Central from Dunedin have been appointed to put in the road and main infrastructure (sewer, water tanks, geothermal field) as well as excavate the building platform and install the precast retain...
Denser Urban Living in Aotearoa
Rather than simply making new rules and prescribing residential space, we think that good design (of course) should be the prime consideration for cities seeking to expand their housing stock. Design...
Good Residential Design Creates Both Private Amenity And Public Realm
We are proud winners of the 2015 Wellington Architecture Awards in the Housing category for 120 Oriental Parade house designed by Architecture Workshop’s principle Chris Kelly. We believe that reside...
AW's Waratah Weekender published on ArchitectureAU
This project for a family beach house not only amplifies the role of the ground by lifting it up 1.5 m but also multiplies it so that it performs roles that are simultaneously natural and social. The ...
AW Concept Design for Community Facilities for the Bulls Township
Architecture Workshop were engaged to come up with a concept design to amalgamate the aging and dispersed community facilities (Town Hall, Plunket, i-Site, Tourism office and Library) around a new Civ...
Te Mata Peak Visitors Centre Concept Design by Architecture Workshop
You win some you lose some! AW won a competition in 2009 to design a gate way visitors centre on Te Mata Peak for the Park Trust led by Bruno Chambers. We studied land art precedents to integrate the ...
Peregrine Winery: A Regular on Global Amazing Winery Lists
It’s over 10 years since the Peregrine Winery in the Gibbston Valley in Otago won its global prize for best building by an emerging architect. The winery continues to attract valuable international at...
Billy Apple and Architecture Workshop Collaboration on the Apple Tower
To paraphrase Billy Apple, the architect must live like everybody else. Billy Apple, NZ’s leading concept artist, is opening a retrospective show at the Auckland Art gallery curated by Christina Barto...
Christopher Kelly Visits Schinkel’s Altes Museum
Christopher Kelly hadn’t visited Schinkel’s Altes Museum before as it is in the East Berlin part of the city - showing his age a bit! - but the building lived up to its big neoclassical reputation, of...
VIDEO: Guided Tour of Architecture Workshop’s 224 Oriental Bay House
If you would like a guided tour of “one of Wellington’s most confident and serious playful homes” and a few interesting architectural comments from Sam Kebble on the AW-designed 224 Oriental Bay House...
5 Things Architects Can Do to Build the Profile of the Profession
This article reiterates that architects already practise sophisticated project management. First published in Architecture NZ (Oct 2014), it reminds the public of the importance of the discipline of a...
Christopher Kelly Visits Mies van de Rohe’s Tugendhat Villa
During Kelly's visit to Europe, he just managed to get into Mies van de Rohe’s Tugendhat Villa built in 1929 (remember to book). The world heritage building is the pride of the town Brno in the Czech ...
Peter Sassenroth Wins Competition for Chapel of Reconciliation
Christopher Kelly’s colleague Prof. Peter Sassenroth won a competition to build a non-denominational church in no-man’s land in Prenzlauer Berlin. A gentle building with an inner core of rammed earth....
Christopher Kelly at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale
Christopher Kelly visited the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale this week, and visited the New Zealand pavilion in the Palazzo Pisani S. Maria. The title chosen by curator Rem Koolhaas for the Exhibit...
Axis Series Small Home Test Lab
Architecture Workshop collaborated closely with and developed these small detached houses in response to an innovative brief developed by David Irwin of Isthmus Group and Katja Lietz of the Hobsonvill...
AW Strategy 2 for Akepiro Street, Mixed-use Housing Competition
The Akepiro mixed-use housing competition will be exhibited at the Auckland Art Gallery from the 10th - 12th of August. Come along to the Salon des Refusés! The most adventurous of our competition st...
AW Strategy Overview for Akepiro Street, Mixed-use Housing Competition
Seventy six entries were received for the Akepiro Street, brown field mixed-use housing competition. We didn’t make the cut. All in all, about $1.0 million of design time was invested by architects to...
TV Guide’s commentary on Christopher Kelly
TV Guide recently published an article reflecting on Christopher's appearance on the TV1 series Art of the Architect, focusing on the build at 120 Oriental Parade. In the words of Kelly, “One of the r...
AW’s Waitomo Caves Visitor Centre Published in A+U Journal
We are very pleased to have our Waitomo Caves Visitor Centre project recently published in the prestigious A+U Japanese journal, New Landscapes of Wooden Architecture (Issue 524)....
Christopher Kelly Appears on Art of the Architect TV Series
Check out Christopher Kelly on Episode 3 of TV1’s recent series ‘Art of the Architect’ as Architecture Workshop with Holmes Construction bring Andrew and Sumi’s dream house to completion in Oriental P...
VIDEO: Christopher Kelly on Affordable Housing Designs for Hobsonville Small Home Test Lab
Watch Christopher Kelly explain the thinking behind the Hobsonville Small Home Test Lab, in this video. From a clean transition between the inside and the outside of proposed design alternatives, to i...
Architecture Workshop Designs Affordable Houses for Small Home Test Lab
We have designed three affordable houses for the Small Home Test Lab at Hobsonville Point. Over 700 people have visited the show homes so far and 70% of people surveyed said they would happily or very...
Ugly Houses Good? Think Again.
We were compelled to comment on the Sunday Star Times recent article, “Ugly houses good: English” - in which Bill English went on record as saying "Ok we might have to get a bit ugly but actually a lo...