Cheshire engages in a huge breadth of types and scales, operating across fields of luxury and austerity, newness and age, roughness and refinement. Leading the entire design effort, from development strategy and architecture to branding and product design, Nat moves daily from apron buttons to web design to light fittings to riverside cabins to basement cocktail dens to luxury retreats to the creation and transformation of huge chunks of the city. 

Amongst this work, Nat has built much of Britomart – an organic development covering nine inner-city blocks and created and continually evolved the four-hectare City Works Depot. Nat’s work has been awarded the 2020 Best Award purple pin as well as ten Best Award gold pins in five years, is twice the winner of Metro’s designer of the year, HOME’s home of the year and twice its product of the year. His work is regularly published in global editions like Monocle, Wallpaper, Dezeen and Dwell. He seeks the extraordinary rather than the perfect in the pursuit of a new architecture and a new city.







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Ascinda has gained more than fifteen years’ experience in the London offices of both local and multinational studios before a return to home soil saw her join the Cheshire studio in 2018. Ascinda has led large teams in the design and realisation of major, beautifully refined projects that work to bolster their local urban fabric, and larger civic scale masterplanning projects which seek to reimagine how areas of a city might be used. At the centre of all her projects resides the highest of expectations for the experience of the people and communities who will use the buildings and spaces around them.  Ascinda is a powerful leader within the studio who is as comfortable wielding a pencil across a blank page and she is wrestling with the rigours and complexities of realising a built project.

Project Lead:
Scapegrace Distillery, Ngapipi Boatshed, Private houses, Remuera, Bancorp Britomart offices, Buckland Masonic heritage façade restoration, Floral Court, London (KPF), Lucan Place, London (KPF)

Project Collaborations:
Stanbeth Excelsior & Bounce Hotel, Catalina Bay Stage 3, Te Arai Lodge, Earls Court Village Masterplan, London (KPF & Farrells), Bulgari Hotel, London (Squire + Partners & ACPVP), One Tower Bridge, London (Squire + Partners & Conran + Partners) 






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DJ leads a large team in the studio. He is a critical collaborator in almost every hospitality project it undertakes. DJ shapes everything – from the philosophical ideals and atmospheres underpinning a project, to the realisation of those ideals in nuts, bolts, grease traps and bespoke furniture. He is as capable a project and construction manager as he is a water colourist. DJ is the editor of the Mandarin-language MOAM magazine, and heads the studio’s relationship with its Chinese clients.

Project Lead:
The Hotel Britomart, The Libraries, The Hotel Britomart restaurant, 46 Parnell, Apartment for a Writer, Britomart Country Club, Cafe Hanoi, Library House, Milse, MOAM, The Store, Ortolana, XuXu, Ponsonby restaurant

Project Collaborations:
Mr Morris, Mandarin, Mangawhai House, Miss Clawdy 






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In Ellie’s London work, projects of huge adaptive re-use sit alongside new buildings of large-format commercial nature. In Auckland, Ellie confidently leads the studio’s largest teams in projects of similar scale, pursuing change in the city through sites of mixed, transformative use. Ellie is that rare person in architecture whose design work is insightful and lyrical, and whose project delivery experience and capacity for management are equally solid. Her broad strengths shape and amplify the studio’s design intent throughout architecture’s complex design, documentation and implementation phases.

Project Lead:
SKHY, 18 Sale St, Morningside, Stanbeth Excelsior Britomart, Buckland Masonic






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Emily refuses to accept disciplinary or typological boundaries within design. She leads a team of designers that push the studio’s work beyond building and into interior, graphic, product, web, furniture, lighting, and textile design. With them, she pursues totally immersive experiences, through a fierce commitment to the bespoke - from master plan to apron button.

Project Lead:
The Libraries, The Hotel Britomart Interiors, Northern Club Extension, Ford Loft Two Residence, Northern Club Bistro, Pilkington’s Restaurant and Bar, Tantalus Winery Waiheke, Alibi Brewery Waiheke, The Esplanade, No.7 Balmac, The Tooth Company, Dry & Tea (Newmarket, City Works Depot, Britomart), City Works Depot, Britomart, Freemans bay and Queenstown Residences, Whites & Co. Britomart, Food Truck Garage

Project Collaborations:
Fielding House Interiors, SKHY Marketing and Interiors, Oaken, Saan, Mandarin, Ortolana, Milse, The Store, Miss Clawdy, Mi Piaci Melbourne, XuXu

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Fulcrum Table Lamp, Torchon Pendant, Foundry Floor Light, Parison Pendant, Parison Table Light, Northern Club Bistro Pendant
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Fraser has run his own very successful practice, producing inventive and beautiful residential and hospitality work under the banner of Fraser Horton Design. He joined the Cheshire studio in support of its ambitions for New Zealand and global architecture. Fraser’s skills are broad reaching; from the holistic leadership of highly detailed buildings, to key management contributions in the studio itself, to the leadership of the studio’s digital modelling, virtual reality, image creation and art direction efforts. Fraser’s appetite is for crafting beautiful architecture that advances and expands our culture. This is evident in everything he does.

Project Lead:
Vermont Street House, Kauaroa Bay Lodge
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‍Project Collaborations:
Kings - Lunn Ave, Te Arai North Villas & Clubhouse, Auckland Hebrew Congregation






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George is obsessed with detail, richness and a concentrated, crisply resolved architecture. He applies those obsessions broadly: from the layered improvisations of restaurants to large-format inner city transformations and intensely considered, bespoke residences. For George, this means fighting just as hard for custom-made door handles as for the efficiencies and potentials of multi-storey planning. George has a lead role in the studio’s work, running several projects at once in support of the continually evolving whole.
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Project Lead:
Riddell Road House, Miss Clawdy, Mi Piaci, Quay Altrans Britomart, Barrington Sofrana Britomart, City Works Depot Spiral Stair, Waiheke House, Ford Lofts, The Northern Club, Dadelszen Parnell, Parnell Loft, Hinemoa Street House.

‍Project Collaborations:
Ortolana, Milse, The Store







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Kieren draws on broad experience, from master-planning huge projects in China to his more recent London based commercial work and the construction of small rural houses. Kieren brings this experience to bear on architecture in a manner that is as technically intelligent and procedurally robust as it is ideologically committed. He enjoys equally the mud and dust of the construction site and the challenge and politics of design management. He is committed to the pursuit of architectural clarity, cohesion and material honesty, which he believes is attainable irrespective of a project’s constraints. These attributes help Kieren play a key role in leading projects with a global cast of clients and consultants. It also means that Kieren treats documentation as a design project in its own right, driving the studio’s program of continual documentation critique and refinement. Kieren established the studio’s Wellington office.
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Project Lead:
Lake Hawea House, Vineyard Villa at The Landing, Clifftop House II, Clifftop Gym
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Tara Iti Clubhouse, Vermont Street House 






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Mark is an architect of fifteen years’ experience in Auckland, London and New York. His prior projects range from highly crafted bespoke homes to new campus developments for the University of Auckland and several British universities. Mark artfully balances strong, clear design ambitions with a calm, focused project management style. He is as a consequence a highly effective leader of large teams and critical projects, forging strong architecture from complex briefs and stakeholder teams.
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‍Project Lead:
Tara Iti enlargements / Te Arai accommodation and enlargements, Kings Plant Barn Mt Wellington 
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Britomart Portal, Beazley House, Nolan House 

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Pam is a supremely calm, confident and focused maker of architecture, designing comprehensive and carefully thought-out projects of integrity and efficiency. She works across a breadth of scales and a depth of project stages and methodologies, pursuing a strong, humane architecture. Pam’s great ability to organise the demands of complex briefs into strong architecture is matched by an outstanding ability to establish and manage the process of tendering and contract administration.
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Project Lead:
St Heliers Church, SKHY Apartments Stage 2, Wilson Home Respite & Rehabilitation Centre, Mission Bay housing, Wairakei Golf and Sanctuary, Springfield Road Residence additions & alterations, Clarke Foundation Library, Tamaki Teacher Housing, Childfund Auckland Office fitout.
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Mission Bay masterplan & streetscape, Te Arai private accommodation, Northern Club, Hannam Draper Penthouse, Auckland Islands Research Station, Kauaroa Bay, Redhills Green Masterplanning.





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Sarah has been a key collaborator with Pip and Nat since her arrival in the studio in 2007. Her speed and relentless curiosity empower an incisive approach to design at all scales – from the urban master plan to the occupation of a single room. Sarah’s is a beautiful combination of technical and design intelligence. She seeks the strongest solutions by attacking every problem from simultaneous angles. The result is an engaged, rapid, and responsive process of design, technical inquiry and implementation. The strength of that process enables Sarah to move confidently and effectively between projects of all types, scales and phases, applying the same depth of architectural intelligence to all.

Project Lead:
Redhills masterplan, Raphoe masterplan and development, Yacht Club Apartments Hobsonville, Mission Bay masterplan and commercial re-development, Rhubarb Lane.

‍Project Collaborations:
Awaawaroa Bay, Catalina Bay Masterplan and streetscape, Freemans Bay residence, Merchant stores, Private houses in Northland and Herne Bay, Mt Albert church, Stanbeth Excelsior Britomart, Church in the West.






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Simon undertook several years of design and construction management in London before joining the studio in 2007. In the face of great complexity Simon maintains a continual calm, ensuring robust control of architecture and the processes of its implementation. Simon’s work leading Q Theatre delivered a complex and energetic building from an ambitious and multi-faceted brief, in an astonishingly constrained site. Simon’s experience integrating theatrical, commercial and hospitality imperatives at Q has since supported his work on large mixed-use projects, the nascent Tantalus Estate on Waiheke Island and the large-scale Catalina Bay development.
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Project Lead:
Catalina Bay, Tantalus Winery Waiheke, Alibi Brewery Waiheke, Shed 12, Q Theatre, Plaza Apartments, Waterside Apartments, Stanex Britomart

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Riddell Road House     






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Stephen was a founding architect at Cheshire. He has previously always pursued and questioned architecture rigorously, whether running his own award winning practice or tutoring in design at the School of Architecture, University of Auckland. He and Pip have collaborated for almost two decades. Stephen’s extraordinary sensitivity to space, light, material and assembly has, in that time, been brought to bear on a series of the studio’s major works. His ability to trace a finishing detail right through to its root in the first rough slab pour reveals a profound understanding of how great architecture is made. Stephen presently leads the most intensely detailed projects of the studio, roving from heritage loft conversions to private clubhouses set amongst coastal dunes.

Project Lead:
Hilltop House, House at Takapuna, Maritime Building, Mountain Landing Lodge, NSSC, Tara Iti Clubhouse, The Folly, The Landing Winery

‍Project Collaborations:
Q Theatre, Ford Lofts, Vineyard House, Fielding House, 1885, Café Hanoi, Stanex Britomart






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Calum brings a resolute working process to bear on architecture. Having worked in media design in London, Calum returned to New Zealand in 2007 to expand his skills within the field of architecture. In that time Calum has worked for Cheshire and run his own architecture practice. He now works exclusively for the Cheshire Studio. Calum specialises in a highly focused architecture leading the complex detailing of several large-scale city developments, and the intricacies of complex geometries such as the asymmetrical ellipse with entasis that defines the tower of the Hilltop House.

‍Project Lead:
Smith House 

‍Project Collaborations:
Stanbeth Excelsior Britomart, Q Theatre, Gabriel House (ML), Hilltop house & Gymnasium (ML), Hilltop Observatory (ML), SKHY2, The Hotel Britomart, Church at Massey






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The breadth of Kyra’s experience in practice in London and Berlin reveals her capacity and appetite for architecture in all forms. At one end, Kyra has worked with master makers to painstakingly detail solid-timber casework and thread piped services through the immutable masonry of heritage-listed residences. At the other, she has led the fabrication and deployment of large-format, complex geometries in support of the global work of Berlin artist Katharina Grosse. This collision of contemporary art and traditional craft reveals the breadth of Kyra’s appetite and abilities. She is now bringing that spectrum to bear on the studio’s large format city scale projects. 

‍Project Collaborations:
SKHY, SKHY 2 and SKHY 3 work /live units, Redhills masterplan.  






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Aiden is a graduate architect of discipline, precision and material sensitivity. He has experience in several imminent Auckland studios, anchored by two years of intensive work at the infamous Portuguese studio of Aires Mateus. His work at Aires Mateus spanned from luxury apartment and villa projects to major museums and an installation for the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Aiden’s work at Cheshire extends that elegant, minimalist foundation and he plays a key role in many of Cheshire’s most disciplined projects.

‍Project Collaborations:
The Hotel Britomart, The Brake House Kitchen, The Landing Vineyard Villa Pool, Hinemoa Street House, Titirangi House Alterations, Studio Red Tearoom, Ford Loft Residences, Yacht Club Apartments, Dadelszen






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Adrian strives to push the standard of design with a calm and disciplined style. Adrian is experienced in the residential construction market, in both the design & documentation of high-quality homes and leading those projects through construction. Adrian’s focus, leadership and ability to swiftly explore varying designs with the confident use of a pencil leaves him in a commanding position inside and outside of the studio. Adrian forges strong architecture.




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Alicia leads the studio’s front of house team. Before arriving at Cheshire, Alicia led the planning and execution of large format corporate and construction industry events. It is Alicia’s love for people and the excellence of their collective endeavour that led her to pursue the management of the studio. Alicia balances a warm smile with a fierce desire for organisation. 







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Cameron is a graduate from the University of Auckland School of Architecture. Cameron is fuelled by the ever-growing potency of the digital in architecture. He traverses a breadth of skills from 3D modelling, parametric design, programming and digital image creation. Cameron worked in the Cheshire studio during his study, leading with Pip an innovative multi-unit residential project with local Iwi. Since joining Cheshire full time in 2019, Cameron has had a key role in the research and masterplanning work of Redhills Green.
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‍Project Collaborations:
Ngati Tamaoho Housing, Tara Iti Clubhouse Extension, AUT Wisdom Lab, Redhills Green 







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Emily’s career began in London where she worked for seven years before moving to New Zealand in 2019. Her London work spanned a variety of complex projects of different scales from residential to mixed use developments. In Auckland, Emily balances a pragmatic approach to design with a focussed consideration for a rich and holistic architecture.

Project Collaborations:
Scapegrace Distillery, Ngapipi Boatshed


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James balances the technical demands of the studio with his vital role in several hospitality and multi-story projects. James’s focus and energy is unshakable. He has demonstrated outstanding skill in coordinating the complex interaction of services and structure. James is equally versed in the fast paced operational demands and atmospheric nature of hospitality, and is deeply engaged in the culture, craft and detail of coffee. James has recently taken a lead role within the studio’s hospitality projects.

‍Project Collaborations:
Mr Morris, Cafe Hanoi, The Hotel Britomart, SKHY, Mission Bay Master Planning, The Candy Shop, Ponsonby Fire Station, Te Rauponga Masterplanning, Private House in Northland 





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Jared has spent almost half a decade painstakingly modelling, cataloguing and documenting world-heritage sites in the Antarctic – including the huts that supported the polar expeditions of Scott and Shackleton. He has worked closely with Pip throughout those projects, supporting a global team in the carefully orchestrated and technically inventive stabilisation and preservation of these precious buildings. Jared’s determined documentation plays a critical part in the location and tracking of the many thousands of artefacts that make up the collections within the explorers huts.

‍Project Collaborations:
The Ross Island Heritage conservation project, Antarctica






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Karen leads the company’s financial management and performance analysis. Having previously owned and run her own business in the construction products industry. Karen is highly experienced and provides commercial and procurement support to projects as well as the practice.






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Latoya has calmly managed the commercial demands of the office since 2011. She has continually shaped and refined Cheshire’s accounting systems in parallel with the studio’s evolving approach to its projects and is responsible for all of its billing, accounts receivable and annual reporting.






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Lauren is an energetic and focused designer at all scales. She brings a strong emphasis on elegant architectural outcomes to the complexity of large scale project design development. Lauren builds on her experience of high end British housing to foreground the detailed interaction of building elements that create outstanding architecture.

Project Lead:
Matapouri House, SKHY 2 


‍Project Collaborations:
Northern Club, Wintergarden, Buckland Masonic, Vermont Street House, Dune House







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Lauren has five years of industry experience in New Zealand and Canada in both the residential and commercial sectors. A craft for creating environments that are materially rich, layered and totally immersive. Lauren is a spearhead for several of the studio's interior environments at any one time.

‍Project Collaborations:
Sarsfield Street House 
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Lucy’s beautiful and materially intelligent architectural graduate work brought her to the studio’s attention. She has exploited that sensitivity to forge a key role in the studio over the last seven years, seeking the seamless integration of architecture and its interior occupation. Lucy’s work covers a broad spectrum, from commercial space planning and heritage based refurbishment to the sourcing of hand-made lamps. Lucy works for Cheshire from Rome, alongside her postgraduate studies in heritage architecture. Lucy is a driving force in the studio’s commitment to extraordinary heritage projects and interventions.

‍Project Collaborations:
Kings Plant Barn Mt Wellington, The Hanger, Dry & Tea Britomart, Queenstown and Freemans Bay residences, Tantalus Winery Waiheke, VMob Britomart, Maritime Building extension, HLC office, Catalina Bay, Extensive adaptive reuse of historic naval air force hangers and workshops at Catalina Bay





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Mehul is a recent graduate from the University of Auckland School of Architecture. He has an aptitude for creating highly refined, atmospheric digital imagery and is already a leading figure within the studio’s image creation division. Although new to the studio, Mehul is actively contributing and assisting in the design, exploration and development of significant urban, industrial and residential projects.

‍Project Collaborations:
Britomart Hotel Laneway, Scapegrace Distillery, Riddell Road House 




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Before returning to Auckland in 2019, Rachael spent five years gaining experience in London and TheNetherlands working on a range of residential and multi storey tower developments in Europe & Asia. Rachael has taken a lead role developing and managing BIM and the documentation standards within the studio. Rachael’s curious nature and focused propensity leaves her well equipped to develop the studio’s complex residential projects that are sited across the country.




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Surita is a recent graduate from the University of Auckland School of Architecture. A Kupe Leadership Scholarship recipient, Surita has a particular interest in the development of modern Pacific architecture. In her short time at the studio, Surita’s innate ability for design exploration and spatial detail contributes to a diverse range of projects, from residential to broad master planning and to our very own studio.




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