About

Who We Are

  • We are a small but experienced team
  • All have over 20 years experience in the industry
  • We are founding members of DPG (Design Practice Group), a group of like minded design professionals
  • We keep abreast of the latest developments and practices by being involved with and attending regular professional development seminars
  • Mark holds a current Department of Building and Housing (DBH) Design License
  • Mark is an Assessor of Architectural Practitioners for the Department of Building and Housing
  • We have a Certified Weather-tightness Designer on our team

We have completed projects in the following fields

  • New Homes
  • Alterations and Additions
  • Leaky Building Documentation
  • New Commercial and Industrial

We have completed new homes from 60m.sq to over 1500m.sq from $100,000 to over $6 million.

Commercial projects include Motels, Hotels, Factory Offices, Rest Homes, Daycare Centres, Small Shopping Complexes, RSA’s and other Sports Clubs.

Testimonials

We have had a professional association with Mark and his team for nearly 20 years.
I have found him to be attentive to our needs and to work with ideas as well as being practical and integrating ideas of his with ours to achieve a great result.
Our lake retreat just outside Rotorua proved to be a real challenge and has responded well to our needs for a holiday home.
We would recommend Mark and his team to anyone who is wishing to embark on an architectual project.
Scott Fyfe - Grayburn Property Services Ltd
We empolyed Mark Brown from Solutions Architecture to advise us on redesign and to oversee the recladding work and alterations to our leaky home.
Mark was recommended to us by a local building company Stehr Brothers. Mark had experience with over 40 projects such as ours.
We found Mark and his team to be professional, courteous, knoledgeable, extremely helpful and easy to deal with, as was Ross one of Mark's assistants.
We moved out of our house for six months once building works began. We spent a considerable amount of this time outside of Auckland. Mark kept us well informed and ran regular site meetings acting as our representative during our absenses. Mark always placed our best interests at the forefront.
We are delighted with the result. We found Mark's assistance with cladding and colours to be invaluable.
We would thoroughly recommend Mark and his team to undertake any similar project.
Dr John Betteridge
Mark Brown and the team at Solutions Architecture have outdone themselves!
Every day we enjoy the interesting angles of our stunning new home, its practical layout and welcoming facade.
From the outset Mark was a great listener, eager to accomodate our living style, while at the same time injecting a real flair into the design.
He took on board our initial concerns about building a modern home in a very established area, and went to great lengths to make the best use of our very large section, without "saturating" the entire property with house!
As entertainers, he's created a magical indoor-outdoor flow for us, which time and time again has seated up to 20 people under the beautiful big eave. the family friendly brief we gave him was followed right down to the letter, and if there was ever a need to query or change anything during the building process Mark and Ross were always obliging. Nothing was ever a problem!
We would build a house again tomorrow with these guys at the helm.
Jason and Karen Rutherford
We hired Solutions Architecture for an extension to our home. A property they had designed for previous owners. 
We are thrilled with the results ! The new rooms flow seamlessly and, despite a complicated roofline, the addtions that Solutions designed to our brief look as though it was always part of the original design (one of our biggest concerns when considering the addition). 
Our best decision however, was to retain Solutions as our contract administrators. They proved invaluable in finding solutions for all manner of things, including acting as a mediator with our builder when the inevitable 'hiccups', happened along the way. Mark was always just a phone call away, listening patiently and calmly finding solutions. No pun intended.
Debbie and David Sutton