2020 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Toto Whare
From the moment one approaches Toto Whare, it is evident that a warm welcome will be extended, not just to an Awards jury visit, as an each- and everyday ritual. To start with, the orange corrugated cladding foregrounds the house from its more reticent neighbours. A golden welcome mat then blazes out ‘Kia Ora’, and upon entry, an extensive whānau photo gallery illustrates whakapapa and serves as a reminder that a whare and its whānau are inseparable. And if by now it’s not clear that this house is not just lived in, but loved up, experience the polychromatics of the interior: the darkened disco, the bleached bedrooms, the periscopic ply wharekai.
- Practice
- Bull O'Sullivan Architecture Ltd
- Category
- Housing - Alterations and Additions
- Location
- Canterbury
