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Abercrombie Mews.

Seven modern-traditional homes in Howick, featuring gabled forms and a blend of warm greys and natural cedar, designed to maximise views and sunlight while harmonising with the historic character of the area.

Title:: Abercrombie Mews
Architect:: Respond Architects
Category:: Residential/; New Builds

A proposal for seven new 3.5 bathroom, 4 bedroom inner city homes on a sloping rear site in Howick. The buildings make the most of the elevated site with first floor decks facing the roof-top views to the west, while catching the midday and evening sun; and the reserve to the north lends a leafy backdrop to the site that softens its urban locale.

The client’s brief for a ‘modern-traditional kiwi’ style, was achieved through the use of gabled forms clad in horizontally and vertically scored fibre cement that recalls the weatherboards of tradition, while providing a low maintenance, high quality finish. A comfortable palette of warm greys and natural cedar lend an air of sophistication to the units, and generous planting throughout embeds each home into the site.

The proposal negotiates a variety of council requirements to provide spacious, high quality homes that provide aspirational modern luxury while sympathising with the grain of historic Howick.

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Respond ArchitectsArchitectsTakapuna, Auckland

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Takapuna, Auckland

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Respond Architects. Respond is a team of Architects that tread the line between creative design solutions and technical expertise. We're excited about new ways of doing things, and our depth of experience and multi-disciplinary approach means that it gets done right. Our close partnerships with experts in engineering and surveying make us a one-stop-shop for excellent, original and sensitive design solutions. Respond Architects believe in architecture as a response; to people, places, and to physical, cultural and historical context. Design, for us, evolves from these factors, which is why we are not constrained to any one architectural style. Respond Architects clients include some very cool, progressive home owners, developers, government departments including the Ministry of Education, Schools, Body Corporates, Property Managers and commercial property owners.