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Architecture Now Top 5

Here’s Architecture Now’s “Top 5 Houses of 2019” - featuring our “Tasman View House”. This house floats on the hillside and is inspired by the concept of “engawa” - a Japanese word for the screened transitional deck wrapping around the front of the house.See more of the house here:&..

Estuary Views – New site visit

We were in Mapua (Tasman district) recently, looking at the site for a new House. What fantastic views over the Mapua Estuary! Here are a few images of that site. We'll be aiming to produce a house that both addresses the site and views whilst staying low key and low impact in the coastal enviro..

Tasman View House recognised

MODO Architects win at NZIA Awards. It was nice to catch up with clients and builder at the recent NZIA awards in Nelson. Tasman View house was one of five new houses to receive an NZIA design award. In announcing the awards the judging panel said, "Coming ashore after years on a yacht, ..

Engawa

A common theme in MODO house designs is the idea of "Engawa". In Japanese architecture, an engawa (縁側 or 掾側) usually referred to the wooden strip of flooring immediately before windows and storm shutters inside traditional tatami rooms. Nowadays it also has also come to mean the ..

Photo shoot with Oliver

Nelson Bays photographer Oliver Weber did a photo shoot at Tasman View house recently. The weather seemed a bit fickle, but the clouds and mist hovering around the plains below worked in our favour I think. The result was some stunning images. Here're are a few extra shots not added to the project..

Client Pic of New House

This is a pic from a client's phone - just after moving furniture into their Tasman View House. The uplights seem to be highlighting the Fijian Kauri ceilings just as we hoped. This has been a smoothly run and fun project. As architects, we see projects reach the finishing stage all the time, but..