Livingstone House

A striking form that extends and adapts the best aspects of the villa typology.

Responding to difficult city planning controls and floodplain restrictions, this modern home is both a lively and deeply personal design response.

Splashes of colour are laid over a muted palette of natural timber and white-washed brick in this Auckland home. 

Livingstone House

Awards

Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Design Award – Silver Award in the Residential Category

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While this home presents a striking, contemporary form it also retains aspects of the much loved circulation and planning strategies of Auckland’s characteristic villas. As such, it is both at home in its context and a step forward for the genre in this environment. 

 

Designed across a sloping site with terraces creating level outdoor areas, the house benefits from two urban courtyards which allow light and air deep into the plan. It’s a home with a diversity of spaces and uses – an office, pottery studio, children’s playroom and mezzanine over the master bedroom for taking in the expansive views from a playful pop-up in the roof.

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