Trends New Zealand Trends Volume 31 No 10 New Zealand | Page 35

Pied-à-terre
An international hotel-style city retreat – this hip apartment in a converted
warehouse is just what the out-of-town owners ordered
Converting warehouse space
into an apartment provides
a great opportunity to take a
more adventurous approach to
design.
And that’s precisely what
architect Daniel Ash did with
this conversion – he used highend materials, strong textural
contrasts and bright colour
accents to create an apartment
that gleams like a jewel box in
a semi-industrial setting.

“The entire apartment
needed to have the look and
feel of an international hotel,
which would be a major
change from the owners’ main
residence – a coastal property
out of town,” the architect says.
“And the kitchen needed
to be the dynamic centrepiece.
It had to be highly functional,
suitable for entertaining and
part of the living space, rather
than a separate area.”

At the same time, however,
the architect wanted to create
a sense of arrival for the 'F