Seaview Road is a contemporary multi-family residence located in Wellington, New Zealand, redesigned in 2020 by Voxell Architecture.

Description
Originally designed by prominent architect Friedrich Eisenhofer in the 1970s, the existing building at 66 Seaview Road offered an incredibly unique and exciting renovation opportunity to create a balanced marriage between 70?s modernism and contemporary architecture.
The existing property offers a unique entertainment-centric layout; centered on a semi-enclosed courtyard and swimming pool privately nested at the building?s core. Concealed beyond its unassuming façade, the building offers an expansive and meandering footprint that terraces down the hillside, split across four levels. Our brief and design intent for the renovation of this property was to maintain the character that underpins the original design and provide an outcome that reinforces the notion of entertainment. This approach used the existing semi-enclosed central courtyard and swimming pool as the focal point for renovation works while improving the spatial connectivity and functional layout of the common areas that directly adjoin this external space that has been discreetly concealed at the building’s core.
Using the internal courtyard as a focal point, the primary works of the renovation involved a complete reconfiguration of the existing Kitchen, Dining, and Living spaces; creating an open plan environment between all three functions with...