The fine people at Home magazine have published some killer shots of the MJ Foster house on their blog. Miles, Maurice and the team really excelled themselves on this job. As they did on the Don Forbes house, also currently for sale.

…continue reading For sale. Warren & Mahoney’s best.

Regarded as one of Canterbury’s most exciting modern architects, Nicholas sadly died of cancer at the young age of 31. Trained at Warren and Mahoney, he was instrumental in some of their key projects during the 70s including the Christchurch Town Hall, Dorset St Towers, Christchurch College Chapel and the R F Ballantyne House.

…continue reading Nicholas Kennedy.

Holger Henning Hansen arrived in Christchurch from Denmark in the 50s and built a family home in 1958 on a concrete floor using cavity concrete block walls – a technique subsequently used by all modern Christchurch architects in the 1960s and the first clear expression of its use in Canterbury.

…continue reading Holger Henning Hansen

A talented designer, Don arrived in Christchurch with the intention of forming a Southern ‘Group’ with a bunch of fellow Auckland University graduates, including Alan Mitchener. The group disbanded during their first project – a hexagonal house on a Redcliffs hill site – as excavations became difficult and job offers appeared. Don finished the house and went to work with Stewart Minson.

…continue reading Don Cowey

Having trained in architecture in New Zealand, Griffiths travelled to England in 1933 and the following year was awarded a travelling scholarship to the United States. He returned to New Zealand prior to the war and commenced private practice in 1945.

…continue reading George Davidson Griffiths (1907-1973)

Peter Beaven’s long career has been marked by his opposition to modernist philosophies during which time his practice has been animated by a strong sense of history and place. Beaven’s diverse body of work is incorporated into New Zealand modernism as though his strongly expressed beliefs about the role of the architect under modernism were immaterial.

…continue reading Peter Beaven.

Paul Pascoe was a prominent Canterbury architect and one of the first architects to introduce modernist architecture to Christchurch on a large scale. He started his studies in architecture with Cecil Wood of Christchurch, and worked in Britain with Berthold Lubetkin Tecton during the 1930s . He rejoined the office of Cecil Wood in 1938, before commencing practice on his own account in 1939.

…continue reading Paul Pascoe

In a 1966 article on Warren & Mahoney’s work in the British journal Architectural Design, Norman Sheppard wrote of Christchurch: “This city, the most conservative in a fairly conservative country, has in its recent public and domestic buildings shown a direction which, if pursued and developed should make it a concrete example of what current planning and design theories propound.”

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Don believes his work gives people “relaxation and contentment, not drastic hallucinations”. The aim is to achieve privacy away from the outside world, creating special spaces within the home, which lend to the feeling of a retreat. Don is now well into his 80s, but is happily working and drives around in a Lancia Fulvia Zagato. Respect.

…continue reading Don Donnithorne