House project scoops award

 

Bossley Architects were honoured with a Housing Award for their Lang Cove House project on April 28 at the 2016 Auckland Architecture Awards.

The citation for the Langs Beach project by jury convenor Michael O’Sullivan, reads: "This exceptionally well-sequenced house sits on a site that slopes gently down, through a screen of well-established pohutukawa, to the water. An impressive clerestory skylight punctuates the clean-lined roof plane to provide a wonderful interplay of light on concrete, white walls and American oak floors. Movement throughout, assisted by ramped areas that descend in accord with the contours of the topography, terminate in open living areas and a cantilevered concrete terrace.”

The home sits gracefully and unobtrusively on its perch digesting a view that goes on forever.