A very smart looking house with a nice entrance and some terrific steep-pitched roof forms. It’s an unassuming house that stands out in a suburban culdesac of large, bland, unmemorable dwellings.

Peter doesn’t like to visit Fendalton, but made an exception in the 1960s to build this grand home on Glandovy Rd. It’s interesting to note Peter’s slightly more individual take – hexagonal chimney and asymmetrical roof lines – on the ‘big, white Fendalton house’ done so well by Warren and Mahoney.

…continue reading 92c Glandovy Rd. Beaven Hunt.

Designed in 1976 for a wealthy builder, the Forbes House is arguably the grandest of Warren & Mahoney’s residential buildings of the time. The house is formidable: raw, exposed concrete beams dominate, yet it’s elegant and totally cool.

…continue reading 5a Snowdon Rd. Forbes House. Warren & Mahoney.

A little elderly and big for our tastes, but interesting nonetheless: hotelier Earl Hagman’s Coldstream Lodge was built in 1935, but remodeled in the international modernist style by Heathcote Helmore for the Ballantyne family in the 1940s.

…continue reading 10 Coldstream Ct. Coldstream Lodge. Heathcote Helmore.

Heavily…er…influenced by Finn Juhl’s 1942 House, this beautiful home was clearly dear to Miles Warren who painted some beautiful perspective watercolours of the design. The fact the owners have lived in this home for 37 years says a lot.

…continue reading 210 Clyde Rd. R H Ballantyne House. Warren & Mahoney.

A very early example and supposedly the eighth Warren & Mahoney house built. Known as the K. Uren House, small but perfectly formed with lots of architecture in a small package, just the way we like it.

…continue reading 22 Chepstow Ave. K Uren House. Warren & Mahoney.

This beautifully preserved house was created by the partnership of Paul Pascoe and Walter Linton. For more information call 0800 DC3 FLY. Incidentally, one of the neighbours is a very well concealed George Lucking designed house at number 10.

…continue reading 14 Gleneagles Tce. Pascoe and Linton.

On a gloomy Christchurch day, this fellow looked bright and chirpy. Who knows what lurks behind all that crazy, ultramarine paint?

Not much known about this little ripper designed in 1960. G D Griffiths pops up a couple of times in archive references, but we don’t even know his first name. Let’s just say it’s Gary his name is George (thanks Peter Beaven).

…continue reading 32 Creyke Rd. Sherris House. G D Griffiths.

Holger Henning-Hansen’s own home designed in 1958. Not much to see from the street except some blue outdoor furniture on loan from the Greek Islands.

…continue reading 11 Blaco Pl. Henning-Hansen House.

This is Maurice Mahoney’s house, designed in 1966, which he still occupies. The house sits in a Fendalton cul de sac and looks fantastic (despite the Toyota Echo in the drive, which we tried to push away, but the handbrake was on and the doors locked). The Mahoney house utlilises many of the Warren & Mahoney hallmarks: white painted concrete blocks, exposed structure and steeply-pitched gabled roofs

…continue reading 8 Pentlow Pl. M E Mahoney House. Warren & Mahoney.

Designed 1966, earlier photos suggest the garage has been subsequently widened to fit two (expensive) cars. Either way she’s a stunner, and in a similar style to her Fendalton buddies the M E Mahoney House and M B Warren House.

…continue reading 2 Makora St. Schneideman House. Warren & Mahoney.