A four bedroom home on a 436m2 site in central Queenstown, built to make a tight inner-town section work hard. The street elevation gives little away — behind it the house opens into a double height, broken-plan living and dining space that carries the full height of the building.

A steel mesh stairwell runs through the centre of the plan and splits the accommodation evenly, two bedrooms up and two down, across 218m2 of floor area with two and a half bathrooms and a 36m2 garage. Warm timber linings and exposed structure temper the industrial detailing, and the site sits a short flat walk from the botanical gardens, the lakefront and the town centre.

A five bedroom home on an elevated Dalefield site, positioned to hold uninterrupted views across to Coronet Peak. The site set the layout: the house steps across split levels to follow the fall of the land, approached by a long sweeping driveway through established grounds, with mature trees screening the property without closing off the outlook.

At the centre is an open plan kitchen, living and dining space turned squarely to the mountains, anchored by a sunken lounge and a full stone fireplace. The upper level holds the master suite with walk-in wardrobe and ensuite alongside a guest bedroom, while the lower level carries three further bedrooms, a family bathroom and a second living area, giving clear separation between family and guests. A separate laundry, generous storage and a new double garage complete the build, with expansive decking and a level lawn framing the mountain backdrop. Arrowtown, Millbrook, Lake Hayes and the Coronet Peak ski field access road are all minutes away.

As the local Queenstown builder chosen for the project, MWH Construction completed the build in late 2023. A challenging and rewarding project for clients John and Sharon Russell as seen on Grand Designs New Zealand Series 8 episode 7.

Built on the side of a mountain over 2 and a half years and during a global pandemic. The result is a beautifully finished 375m2 architecturally designed home with breath taking views over Lake Wakatipu and The Remarkables mountain range.

A modern renovation of an existing mud brick home designed by Kerr Ritchie https://www.kerrritchie.com. Two square like oversized glass boxes created with Thermosash glass topped with a living warm roof which grows a beautiful Central Otago garden juxtaposed against the raw existing mud brick. The entire internal living spaces was renovated to meet the sleek internal of the new Louvre like glass living kitchen and dinning structure. An award winning renovation detailed in perfection.

Tasked with the challenge to integrate a new bedroom and large ensuite into a small building platform, MWH was engaged to create a new dynamic, of the “old vs new”. Highlighting and renovating the entire old 90s like facade and bringing the building up to date aesthetically within todays modern visual vernacular. A full renovation of the existing entities and integrating a new glazed walkway to a stunning master bedroom with modern facilities and hardware straight from Denmark. Landscaping in keeping with the existing and modified to suit the traditional Central Otago look.

A beautiful home crafted to perfection. Concrete, steel and glass, materials used to build the most inviting and warm home. MWH delivered a ground breaking build with oversized sheets of Corten steel cut to perfection by our skilled team onsite to create a dynamic monolithic look with precast and cast in situ concrete elements using state of the art Thermo-mass insulated panels to book end the house. The north face is glazed in extremely over sized and never tested residential glazing suites to save on cost. The entire inside is lined with MWH milled and grown Southern Beech timber skarking perfectly installed to offset the brutal like construction elements and bring warmth into the home. Designed by the local Martteen Hoffman of http://www.hofmans.co.nz.

Sited on a steep and marginal site, Arrowtown house stands out in its street, giving a hint at the unique disposition of space within. The house expresses the rock face it nestles into. The crinkled timber form alludes to the rock face which may be glimpsed from most of the internal spaces. The immediacy to the street is successfully managed, allowing the occupants to retreat inside to domestic privacy. Space is expertly handled to maximise the house’s size, and the living areas, lofts and two bathrooms, do not feel at all small. Designed by http://www.hofmans.co.nz.