The new international headquarters for Bonhams, one of the world’s oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques, transforms the company’s home in the heart of London’s art scene in Mayfair into the most modern auction experience in the world.
A small family house located in the coastal community north of Gisborne. From a context of accrued bach-esk dwellings in a south facing coastal surf community, a strategy of sequencing building sets (aka surf) was generated to scale new form to its surrounds. Building sets are then offset to allow seasonal living and circulation options for variations in wind and sun exposure.
Summer opens and invites in community; with diagonal movement connecting offset and shaded external spaces. Here living holds minimal interior use, with summer circulation defining informal house boundaries, and the control of sand. Life then internalises for winter shut down, with high level openings capturing precious northern light and warmth, and offset forms providing shelter to the southern exposure.
A one-bedroom guest house in a lush and wooded area alongside the historic Old Albany Post Road. In order to strengthen the connection of the house to its surrounding environment, the structure is sliced in half, pushing interior spaces out and inviting exterior materials in. The combination of new and native materials like compressed paper, salvaged oak, corten and blackened steel, bluestone and acid etched glass exemplify the context-driven contemporary design.
The new international headquarters for Bonhams, one of the world’s oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques, transforms the company’s home in the heart of London’s art scene in Mayfair into the most modern auction experience in the world.
A small family house located in the coastal community north of Gisborne. From a context of accrued bach-esk dwellings in a south facing coastal surf community, a strategy of sequencing building sets (aka surf) was generated to scale new form to its surrounds. Building sets are then offset to allow seasonal living and circulation options for variations in wind and sun exposure.
Summer opens and invites in community; with diagonal movement connecting offset and shaded external spaces. Here living holds minimal interior use, with summer circulation defining informal house boundaries, and the control of sand. Life then internalises for winter shut down, with high level openings capturing precious northern light and warmth, and offset forms providing shelter to the southern exposure.
A one-bedroom guest house in a lush and wooded area alongside the historic Old Albany Post Road. In order to strengthen the connection of the house to its surrounding environment, the structure is sliced in half, pushing interior spaces out and inviting exterior materials in. The combination of new and native materials like compressed paper, salvaged oak, corten and blackened steel, bluestone and acid etched glass exemplify the context-driven contemporary design.
