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+ Longview Retirement Village

Wellington, New Zealand

Longview Village is a large extension of an existing rest minimal staff and so one of the residents would become
home style property and was designed to provide a the facilities managers of the space. The café has a self-
more independent living environment for retired people. service kitchen and the bar is a self-service bar. There are
There are approximately 80 studio, 1 bed and 2 bedroom sheltered heated outdoor barbeque areas for residents to
apartments planned with communal lounge and reception use for entertaining. The client brief was that the project
with a cafe and bar alongside. needed to look like an elegant upmarket club. The design
was set up to make the most of the views, sun and light.
The Studio Design + Architecture interiors team were asked
to join Archaus architects in bringing this project together. Next, we were asked to look at the apartments and adjust
Our role was to design the interiors for the communal and the planning and design the apartments so they compete
social spaces and look at planning within these areas. The in the current housing market in style, look and feel.
point of difference for this project was that there would be