Foundation Architects
A new residence in the hills of Hataitai in Te Whanganui a Tara, completed in 2024. The house has a small 40ish sqm footprint and is spread across three storeys and provides a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home ideal for a small family. Our clients demonstrated great resilience in the face of many obstacles to realise this project, planning compliance, engineering challenges, one unhelpful neighbour, covid etc, but despite these and other challenges, our clients are now settled into their new home with their original home subdivided and providing rental income. We wish them the best for their future in their new home. It has been a rewarding project and we are proud of this addition to our city’s hills.
03/11/2025
This is an interesting article and has a bit of food for thought. Thanks Spinoff and Joel McManus.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/03-11-2025/inside-the-canadian-apartments-redefining-indigenous-housing?fbclid=IwY2xjawN01YBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgMmxWQw1bhawl5ki9GXMwWBdTCoMeoLwlP8rDbrjBFv6s5hfIs2w1yoHwAq_aem_UabDGcBdqhYSzDP46mbWTA
Inside the Canadian apartments redefining indigenous housing Joel MacManus visits Vancouver, where a First Nation is building a massive complex of apartment towers on its reserve land, with no city council approval required. Could this be the future of iwi-led housing in Aotearoa?
13/06/2025
This substack article has a few gems.
….The choice is simple: keep playing a rigged game designed to exhaust and frustrate you, or change the rules entirely by refusing to play…
Planning and Yimbyism, dive in and have a read.
How the Anglosphere's Planning Department is YIMBYism’s Main Obstacle Montreal doesn't have these problems! Francophones beat us on this one.
01/05/2024
We watched this project develop and then fail. We need more brave souls like this collective. The denser housing typology can be richer than what we typically envisage. We need this level of sophistication.
My co-housing project failed, but I still think it’s a great idea We thought we were starting a revolution of urban, modern, high amenity, socially connected housing. Here's what went wrong, and how the idea could still succeed.
01/03/2024
Just wrapped up our latest alteration & addition at Central Terrace. 🏡
Engineer: Essen Engineering
Builder: Adrian Reid
Photography by Harriette & Sam
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