Industry Leaders: What Defines Great Architecture
Designers discuss how to shape resilient, season-ready, multigenerational homes for Queenstown's building boom—what works, what's failing, and where residential design goes next.
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In a landscape like ours, the finest homes don't compete with the view. They defer to it.
As Queenstown builds at pace, the real measure of great design isn't how much you can put on a site, but how quietly and confidently a home can sit within it. It's the difference between a beautiful house and an enduring one, homes designed for solitude and connection, for four seasons and for generations, and a considered view of where high-end residential design is heading next.
We're joined by Fearon Hay, one of New Zealand's most awarded architecture practices and a 2024 Architectural Digest AD100 studio. Founded in 1998 by Tim Hay and Jeff Fearon, with studios in Auckland and Los Angeles, theirs is a design-led practice defined by a deep respect for site and place, and a restraint that lets the landscape prevail. You'll see it close to home in MC member Matt Chapman's Edge of the World estate on Roys Peninsula, a contemporary shepherd's hut in cedar, glass and concrete that sits so quietly in the alpine landscape little else of the built world remains in view.
Facilitated by Paddy Kluts, this is a conversation on the craft behind considered, luxury design, and what it takes to build something that lasts.
Complimentary for members. Guests welcome.
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