Rhythm & Greens
A modest bach reimagined as a calm, light-filled retreat with a strong interior language and clear response to place.
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Mt Maunganui architectural studio
Intelligent residential architecture shaped by site, climate, and the people it is for.
Award-winning homes, renovations, interiors, and landscapes from a Mt Maunganui studio focused on performance, clarity, and design that never defaults to repetition.
What ATA does
Not a housing company. Not a house style. A design studio.
ATA is an award-winning, full-service architectural studio committed to intelligent, sustainable, and progressive design solutions.
Every project begins with context: site, climate, brief, budget, and the specific identity of the client. The architecture responds rather than repeats.
Design that performs across time — energy efficiency, material honesty, and spatial generosity built in from the start rather than applied as an afterthought.
Selected work
Three projects, three distinct responses, one clear studio ethos.
Whareroa
Composed massing, tactile materiality, and carefully edited openings deliver privacy, warmth, and long-term performance.
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OB MAC
A coastal home tuned to climate, movement, and daily ritual rather than a fixed style template.
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Architecture, interiors, and landscape working together from the first conversation to the final detail.
Residential Architecture
New homes shaped around site, orientation, climate, and the way a client actually wants to live.
Renovations + Alterations
Transformations that respect what is worth keeping while materially improving performance, flow, and experience.
Interiors + Landscape
Spatial continuity inside and out, with architecture, interiors, and exterior rooms working as one composition.
Journal
Published work, awards, and the thinking behind what ATA builds.
2025 ADNZ Award
Rhythm & Greens recognised at the 2025 ADNZ Awards.
A calm, light-filled interior language, considered material choices, and a clear response to site and climate that earns its place rather than imposes one.
Read more →Materials
Why the palette simplifies as you move deeper into the plan.
On material restraint, longevity, and the way timber, plaster, and stone age together over time.
Read more →Sustainability
Performance housing: what it actually means to build for climate.
Energy efficiency and spatial generosity are not in tension. The best residential architecture proves both at once.
Read more →Next step
Ready to talk through your project? ATA works with a select number of clients each year.
Whether you have an existing site, a brief already forming, or simply an instinct that your home could work better — the first conversation is a good place to start. ATA works across new builds, renovations, interiors, and landscape throughout the Bay of Plenty and beyond.
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