Houston Architects

About

An Auckland based architectural office focusing on providing leadership in planning, architecture, urban design and interior design. With over 30 years award-winning experience designing residential, church, school and commercial projects.

NZ architects you can trust

We believe in a ‘total design’ architectural philosophy, which means design disciplines permeate every aspect of the business, including the way we operate. This approach ensures building design outputs are based on facts and reality, not assumptions and guesses. Every output is checked against the original brief, however, there’s always flexibility to accommodate new requirements along the way.

Our attention to detail ensures every stage of each project is successful. You can trust us to streamline the journey to project realization by producing accurate and technically complex consent and tendering drawings, efficiently monitoring adherence to plans during construction and ensuring your architectural budget goes the distance.

An architecture firm built around your wants and needs

Established in 1983, Houston Architects is deliberately small and cohesive team of Auckland architects with extensive building design experience and expertise. We work predominately on residential, commercial, education and church buildings in the Auckland region, however our track record includes projects in Wellington, Tauranga and other areas of New Zealand.

Our number one purpose is to create exceptional client satisfaction. To achieve this we concentrate our attention on just a few projects at a time, maintain close client relationships and ensure every step is driven by your wants and needs.

Our Mission

Our Philosophy

Testimonials

We get a buzz every time we see the house, either in magazines or when we are arriving home! It is such a pleasure to look at and to live in.

Trevor Walsh

Need an architect that engages by listening, proposing and doing? Houston Architects is that team. Wayne is the front man and he brought our ideas and needs to life with an end to end delivery. Nearly a decade on, we enjoy the completed work every day.

Wayne took our idea and example photos and matched these ideally to what became our addition of a conservatory, upper reading annex and cupola. The result is seamless with the original Neo-Georgian style of house. We used Wayne for an end to end implementation (design, tender, project management, completion). With the amount of geotechnical, structural and drainage matters that needed attending to, this was the better way to ensure coordination. It worked very well.

Tony Kay

We found it a pleasure to work with Wayne and the team at Houston Architects. They were both creative and practical in the approach to our house renovation in Westmere. They listened to our issues, ideas and budget; and then provided solutions that worked. Our builders enjoyed the experience also - getting timely, quality advice through all stages of the project. We are very pleased with the end result.

S K Hassall