12 Year House

Awards

2019

Nominated for German Design Awards 2019 by German Design Council

2018

Finalist Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects New Zealand Architecture Award - Housing
Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Nelson Marlborough Architecture Award - Housing
Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Nelson Marlborough Architecture Award – Resene Colour Award

Publications

2020

12 Year House, Archello, Netherlands, www.archello.com, 8.5.2020

2018

Justine Harvey and Camille Khouri, “Rural reminders: 12 Year House”, Architecture Now, www.architecturenow.co.nz, November 14
“New Zealand Architecture Awards 2018 shortlist announced”, Architecture Now, www.architecturenow.co.nz, 16th August
Camille Khouri & Justine Harvey, “12 Year House by Irving Smith Architects”, Houses, Spring 2018, pages 60 - 70
“New Zealand Architecture Awards 2018 shortlist announced”, Architecture Now, www.architecturenow.co.nz, 16th August
“NZIA Local Architecture Awards 2018”, ArchitectureNZ, July/August, page 54
Nelson Marlborough Architecture Awards, Architecture Now, www.architecturenow.co.nz, 21 May
Lynda Papesch, “Architecture Awards Celebrate Old, New and Heritage Builds”, Wild Tomato, July Issue 144, page 40-43
“Poised for Greatness”, Wild Tomato, Issue 147, October 2018, page 51

12 years of getting ready and moving from farm to lifestyle.

Remarkably the design changed very little in the wait; it never was about fashion, more being a new kind of farmhouse, one with a lifestyle.

12 Year House embeds to a narrow stretch of good ground, sheltering into the rocky spur and rural landscape. It then laps a wool-shed screen over a concrete spine to shape, lengthen and articulate an open plan to different types of visual and physical connections. There’s views up, out and down; grass, sea and tide. There’s a front, middle and back; hill, paddock and scrub.

What to do today, no deer to attend. “Go fishing, get some eggs, a swim, watch the tide, bottling, coffee… nothing? ”