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Architect’s own award-winning courtyard house on the market for the first time
Architect Guy Tarrant built this home for his family in 2017. It became an award winner.
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The award-winning Courtyard House in Pt Chevalier, designed by architect Guy Tarrant, is on the market for the first time. This landmark home won the prestigious NZIA Supreme Sir Ian Athfield Award in 2017 for its unique design on a rhomboid-shaped section.
The single-level, three-bedroom home centres around a tranquil courtyard and pool that provides beautiful reflected light. Its clever brick exterior and gardens engage the community, offering a sense of mystery and warmth.
Light is very important in this home.
Inside, the home is relaxing, and welcoming.
All the rooms in the house look onto the central courtyard and the swimming pool.
The home wraps around the site, and pushes into a tricky corner, maximizing space left for the courtyard.
A curved wall in the corner of the dining room, takes in the shape of the site.
The gardens are mostly outside, a gift to passers-by that softens the brick.
Friends tell Millar the home has a resort feel.
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