Q&A with Duval O’Neill, Christchurch Architect
30 November 2016
Duval is HMOA’s Christchurch-based director and the ‘O’ in HMOA. He’s been with the practice since 2001 and a director since 2007.
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Architect Peddles People Power
25 November 2016
Nic Sewell, NZIA Registered Architect, is based in our Christchurch studio. Father of Hunter (pictured with Nic below) and with another baby on the way, Nic also finds time to help out at RAD Bikes where he assists with ‘recycling a dunger’; getting people moving on their bikes. Nic has been working with Herriot, Melhuish, O’Neill since 2011, when he and wife Jess, also an architect, returned from overseas and a period of WWOOF-ing. They were eager to make a difference for post-quake Christchurch. Nic is certainly doing that, we asked him more…
HMOA’s award-winning house at Peka Peka Beach
16 November 2016
A beach house unlike any other the almost-20 year old practice has designed before, to make your way onto this Peka Peka property you must first gently push your way past the native bush to get to the front door. The owners intentionally made it this way: you move, the native bush stays where it is.
