Here’s a few pictures from an end of year team visit to our completed Awarua Street project. It was looking lovely in the summer sun, we’re all very proud at how it has turned out.

This is where it all began.

We are very pleased to announce that last night at the NZIA Wellington Architecture Awards ceremony, Egmont Street Eatery, was recognised under the Hospitality and Retail category.

An excerpt from the Jury citation is:

“A limited but fashionable colour palette, and the simple shapes employed, is fresh and welcoming. This is a busy, action packed space with a charming breakout of seating onto the edge of the lane.”

We would also like to further acknowledge the effort of Holmes Construction Group Ltd, who were the main fit-out contractors, as well as Simon Pepping our client, whose patience and excellent judgement was critical for the success of this small urban intervention.

On a final note, we highly recommend, that you visit this establishment and experience the excellent service and food on offer.

If you are a regular to our website, you will have noticed it has had a considerable upgrade.

For the technically inclined, we have moved from a SquareSpace subscription based service, to a WordPress template. We did this for two reasons. First, we were looking for more control over our content, and our previous website was getting harder to manage, and I suspect that this was more to do with our skill than the capabilities of the service we were using. The WordPress platform has also had a learning curve attached to it, but we do feel more in control of it, within the limitations of the theme we have chosen. Also the other factor that we were struggling with was the appearance of our website across all devices, especially smartphones. The WordPress website makes the changes required automatically, and in website jargon, is a ‘responsive’ site. So we are hoping this will be valuable change.

We do hope this new website better communicates who we are, and like any new thing, we are ironing out the bugs and faults, so if you do notice any errors or if something doesn’t gel, please bring it to our attention, as all things can be improved with critique and refinement.

Enjoy.