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Tour of The Gums House | Gary Todd Architecture video
Tour of The Gums House | Gary Todd Architecture
The house that Gary Todd of Gary Todd Architecture designed for friends often catches the eye of the public, he says. “It's a unique property that people notice. The owners say admirers even come up the driveway to enquire about it.”
The brief from homeowners Sue and Simon Nyhof was for strong indoor-outdoor flow and lots of glass, and that the home be energy efficient. Gary credits builder Paul Davidson for his part in the collaboration: “Nothing was a problem.”
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Sue had a big hand in the interiors, including second-hand finds and family heirlooms. “I had an overall role as an architect for guidance,” says Gary. “It was very collaborative.”
The spinning wheel was Sue’s mother’s, and the painting by a friend depicts the excitement of watching a game. “That’s what goes on in our lounge,” says Sue. The textured wall is strandboard, which blends with the landscape.
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The dividing wall creates two living spaces while retaining the open-plan flow. Strip lighting in the ceiling is a departure from typical downlighting, says Gary. It complements the lines of the ceiling during the day and leads the eye outside.
Sue and Simon's landscaping in the courtyard. “Sue has a gift for making gardens that fit in,” says Simon, and Sue says Simon can always create hardscapes as she imagines them. “I certainly couldn’t garden the way I do without him.”
The outdoor living courtyard has a view through the interior living space as a lens to the wider landscape, says Gary. With all the glass, the main feature is the roof floating above the landscape. “It’s not just your ordinary home.”
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For us, architecture is about creating special places in context with their natural and built environment for the enjoyment of people who live in them, work in them, or experience them. Every project, regardless of scale, we consider is a unique opportunity to create something amazing for our client, community and society.

Our architectural practice is humble however operates with confidence because we are experienced in a variety of building types and styles with a proven track record. Our projects vary from Otago to Central Otago, Southland and Canterbury and wider afield than New Zealand to Australia, Fiji and France.

Every project is unique and emerges out of a specific client brief, budget and site that we may challenge and offer options if we consider there is a need to think deeper before proceeding further. These considerations inform the design and build process where our experience on projects to create that point of difference is more likely to be achieved with our valued professional guidance and expertise assisting you as with our many prior clients.

We have been collaborating with our clients, consultants, contractors and councils to provide excellence by offering our trusted experience, innovation and professional guidance to all aspects of a project with vision, planning, documentation, contracts, construction, interior fit out, landscaping and project management from concept to completion as a full project approach under sole leadership to get the best outcome.

We know that each project brings different client requirements and that our response can be to guide that project through a collaborative process to success, whether it is small or large, simple or complex with us as your design lead. The end result is to create inspirational spaces with architecture that could meet and exceed the client and public expectation and be fully in context with the natural and built environment.

Our practice is green minded and actively incorporates innovative sustainable design and construction with an environmental awareness that can contribute to our future. We support ethical and sustainable practices. We believe our architecture can reflect who our clients are and their aspirations.

With the experience of Gary leading the team, we specialise mainly in new or altered residential or commercial projects. We have been involved in over 1000 building projects over more than 25 years and have been acknowledged by over 90 New Zealand Architectural Design Awards in the process which is testament to the quality that you can expect given to each project.

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