About
Founded by Mark Gray and Michael Wyatt, we're a team of locals who were drawn to Queenstown by the epic mountain environment and who've stayed on to help craft our built environment. With an extensive range of experience and an appreciation for the beauty and challenges of the region, we delight in the potential and work with the constraints in our designs. We keep active in the local community and like to lend a hand to worthy causes where we see that we can add value. A down-to-earth lot, we approach our relationships with integrity and our projects with rigor and enthusiasm - at work, at home and beyond.
Staff
Michael Wyatt
Senior Consultant Architect
Michael has been practising architecture in Queenstown for forty years plus. Its the passion for the job that gets him up in the morning. His other passions are classic Italian cars, motor cycles and drawing and painting.
Mark Gray
Managing Director
Mark has been practicing architecture since 1990 and has been designing projects in Queenstown since 1996! He believes key aspects to building are art, affordability and sustainability. Loves living at altitude and enjoys skiing in the winter and boating in summer.
Matthew Barton
Senior Technician
Matthew grew up in Dunedin and at high school his passion for technical drawings led him to study Architectural Draughting at Otago Polytechnic. After graduating in 2002 he moved to Queenstown to work for Michael where until present day has worked on a wide variety of projects. Matthew enjoys mountain biking in his spare time as well as building and flying model aircraft.
Anna Ajkay
Architect
Anna moved to New Zealand in 2014, from Hungary. Ever since then, she’s been practising architecture in Queenstown. She’s all for BIM modelling, and thermally efficient building methods. When not in the office, she loves being in nature, traveling, or doing DIY projects. She is a registered Architect. Anna is currently on maternity leave
Marie-Claire Henderson
Architect
Marie-Claire is a registered Architect with over a decade's experience, much of it in Queenstown and the surrounding area. She cares about producing crafted, sustainable designs and seeing these resolved into successful buildings. She loves being in amongst the mountains and dabbles enthusiastically in many of the outdoor activities afforded by this playground, particularly rock-climbing and hiking.
Phillip Tytler
Consultant Architect
Phillip is a Registered Architect with over 20 years Design experience in 5 countries. He enjoys working closely with clients to realize projects and has experience at finding design solutions to complex problems. Outside of work Phillip enjoys being on the Lake or at the Beach and is passionate about free-form architecture and biologically inspired 4 dimensional structures.
Community Projects
Ben Lomond Adopt-A-Plot
Like many locals, we've adopted a plot on Ben Lomond to prevent the spread of Wilding Pines and help to protect our native biodiversity. Maintaining it is a team effort which involves some light hiking and steep weeding, best undertaken in the sunshine. If you want to adopt a plot too, take a look here: https://whakatipuwilding.co.nz/adopt-a-plot/
Mornington Cable Car (Dunedin)
Two things we enjoy, heritage projects and sustainable travelled combined into one. We worked with the Dunedin Heritage Light Rail Trust to produce a concept for a hub building for the cable cars.
Take a look at their website here: http://www.dunedincablecars.co.nz/index.html
Queenstown Gardens Band Rotunda
The first band rotunda was erected in Queenstown Gardens in 1891 but had fallen into disrepair by the 1960's. A new rotunda was built in 1981 which was in turn rebuilt in 1999 by the Queenstown Lions Club. Michael provided the drawings to replicate the original Rotunda.
Jims Way Cycle Bridge
In conjunction with Lightfoot Initiative and the Queenstown Trails Trust, we were keen to lend our support to in advocating for a pedestrian bridge over SH6 to improve access and mitigate a currently dangerous multilane street crossing.
