A house built at Whangarei Heads has won a major national architectural award.
Castle Rock House, built at Whangarei Heads by Herbst Architects, won the housing category at the New Zealand Architecture Awards 2015 at the weekend.
The jury said Castle Rock House is sited beautifully above a beach and below a mountain, and next to a mature pohutukawa.
"In this project, the bach type has been pulled apart and expertly reconstructed as a summer encampment, that most historically resonant form on New Zealand's north-eastern coast."
Twenty-eight projects, ranging from a combined train station and tertiary institution in south Auckland to a showroom in Shanghai, and from a radiotherapy unit in Tauranga to an apartment building on the Wellington waterfront, won awards in the country's premier architectural competition.