A small townhouse, with Japanese design elements backing onto a supermarket carpark in the centre of Cambridge, was today declared the winner of an architectural award.
Architect Christopher Beer won a $15,000 prize from HOME magazine for his design of the Waikato house for clients Grant and Karen Jack.
![The courtyard at the Cambridge house. Photo/Patrick Reynolds](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/DLKGI4YUZQT745NNC6SXJNWNWA.jpg?auth=74d55cb137114c40bff99615599309b4f7990d6e92159cb9a47170ff2d5340c4&width=16&height=24&quality=70&smart=true)
Editor Simon Farrell-Green said the house had elements of Japanese design and style and people progressed from public to private areas.
"It's a dramatic home whose clever spaces belie its modest budget. The project is beautifully realised and layered, creating poetry from the most prosaic of materials, including second-grade cedar, rejected bricks, corrugate and concrete," he said.