2020 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Parnell House
Like the Smithson’s 1956 House of the Future, the plan form of the Parnell House attempts to liberate domestic facility from the prosaic orthogonal demands of the house through a flowing sequence of functionally fitted, pocket spaces. The interior scenography of the ground floor is particularly striking, its passages reminiscent of a Greek island townscape. One meanders through the small ‘streets’ of the house, guided by smooth, white, curved walls which seamlessly engulf the senses. Maybe it’s the smells wafting from the oven-bakery, or the tinkering sounds from the grand piano-lounge, or the chit-chat and clatter emanating from the dining-taverna…
- Practice
- Stevens Lawson Architects Ltd
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Auckland
