May 7, 2020
They'd barely worked out where to go for coffee when they were sent home to work. Architectural Graduate, Ana Suznejevic joined HMOA's Parnell studio in February and Registered Architect, Jason Yap only shortly before the Level 4 lockdown. Find out what Ana, Jason and the rest of Auckland team have been working on.
May 3, 2020
While a lot of us are spending lockdown dreaming of that kitchen or bathroom alteration (or home studio), some HMOA clients have been happily holed-up in a home designed just for them. We ask the owners of our Peka Peka II House how their home has been performing.
April 29, 2020
We're excited to have eight HMOA projects selected for the 2020 Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Local Awards.
March 9, 2020
Jacqui Colley balances her brand and design work for HMOA with an art practice that takes her around the globe. Her artwork is currently on show at Pataka in Wellington. She’s the queen of beautiful collaborations and last year worked with fashion label, Herriot, to develop a silk fabric design from one of her drawings.
November 19, 2019
Senior architect, Matt Robinson, has just joined HMOA in the Parnell office. With fifteen years experience, primarily in multi-unit and high-end housing, Waikato-boy Matt tells us about making the switch from landscape design to architecture, designing for his own family and what he gets up to outside of the office.
November 15, 2019
The Christchurch studio is working on two new houses, one in Mount Pleasant and the other nearby in Redcliffs. Both projects are set in dramatic landscapes, either on or above the coast. Director Duval O'Neill shares a preview of his concepts and explains how the settings have influenced design decisions.
November 11, 2019
HMOA has just completed a three year project to restrengthen, restore and refurbish Wellington’s heritage-listed Harbour City Centre annex, and global tech company FNZ is the lucky tenant. HMOA's Karin Thurston describes the project to design the three levels of FNZ's new downtown spaces.
September 9, 2019
Olly Markham managed to avoid some of the Wellington winter by taking his family holiday to Texas and Florida. He shares some of the big modern architecture projects he discovered in Florida.
July 22, 2019
It was Sir Edmund Hillary who led Stephanie Arlaud to New Zealand in 2004. The 26-year-old French architectural graduate of Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland was obsessed with Hillary and with mountains. The Lord of the Rings had just been released and when Steph discovered the film landscape was not CGI, she knew she just 'got to go down there.'
June 24, 2019
An integral part of the HMOA team for seventeen years, many as an Associate, Karl Wipatene is taking on an exciting new project and joining architect, and wife, Anne Kelly at a.k.a. architecture.
June 10, 2019
Another new house is underway in the Christchurch studio. Director Duval O'Neill offers a peek at what's planned.
May 27, 2019
In 2004, Wellington director John Melhuish started working with our clients, Andrew and Stephanie, on plans to alter their home in Karori. Joined by architectural graduate Oliver Markham, these alterations turned out to be so extensive, a whole new house was designed. Only the original floor structure survived.