About

taylored studio is a design-led architectural practice led by William Taylor and founded in 2007.

Giving and sharing is the energy that drives us. The studio builds on William’s 20+ years of experience, both in New Zealand and overseas, and an unwavering desire to create spaces where people feel a sense of belonging.

TAYLORED Studio

Testimonials

Over the years we have worked closely with William and his team on a number of projects. We found William to be a great collaborator with a natural ability to foster a close, trusting working relationship, both with us as clients and as leader of the extended project team.

He is able to quickly understand and interpret a brief, offering guidance and foresight to communicate the design process and how best to achieve the desired commercial results.

We were very impressed with his ability to address both user-based outcomes and our needs as clients. The inherent complexities and influences of mixed-use developments were no barrier to the Taylored team’s achievement of an original and successful design response.

We hope we have the opportunity to working with William and his team again on future projects.

MR & MRS VINCENT / HARTLEYS

William and I worked together on a commercial project under a design-build oriented contract. LEP were involved early on in the process, working closely with the Taylored team to procure and deliver the project.

A venture such as this requires a close working relationship and collaborative approach, something that William and his team embraced wholeheartedly. His ability to share leadership on a project of this scale demonstrates his focus on building strong partnerships and prioritising open lines of communication, factors which directly influenced the success of this project.

He has a unique ability to balance commercial needs with an original, exciting design response and throughout the project we found William and his team to be unfailingly supportive and positive in their approach.

I would not hesitate to work with the Taylored team again.

CHRIS MORRIS / LEP CONSTRUCTION

I’ve worked with William and the Taylored team on a wide variety of projects: industrial new builds, commercial renovations and extensions, beach house concepts, along with more recently, an extensive residential rebuild. Whilst the end result of Taylored’s commitment to great design and hard work is always something to be proud of, it is the process, the journey, that we find most enjoyable. Considering the context, creating the brief, sharing the knowledge and feeling a part of the actual outcome. That is where the fun is and where real value is added.

The depth of knowledge the team demonstrates, outside of the typical design parameters, is what we find so valuable. Planning considerations, council, funding options, potential returns, sales targets, buildability, products and how long things might take, are all part of the package when you work with the Taylored crew.

Taylored are certainly my go-to for all of our design and related requirements and personally, I recommend William and his team very highly.

DAN RYDER / WOODVIEW CONSTRUCTION