JTB Architects design spaces where New Zealanders can learn and work, innovate, live, age and grow.
Our future commercial workplaces, industrial facilities, centres and hubs demand a specialised approach in how they are designed and built. We create leading architecture that reflects our aspirations for a better designed and more sustainable built environment.
We have built a reputation for designing interesting, sustainable, and well-built spaces. Our work can be characterised by strong, beautiful forms, that use materials with integrity.
We have a deep understanding across architecture, urban design, master planning and sustainability. This is complemented by specialised capabilities in interior design, building information management (BIM), and architectural visualisation.
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We are delivering some of the country’s most significant timber buildings, creating innovative solutions for business environments and industrial sites, designing vibrant and attractive neighbourhoods for diverse communities, and creating commercial and industrial spaces that will endure for generations to come.
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The Queenstown Country Club is a luxury lifestyle village, located on the Ladies Mile in Frankton.
QUEENSTOWN COUNTRY CLUB
Currently in construction, the 18,000m2 Care and Apartment building comprises eight wings set over three stories. Structural cross-laminated timber (CLT) has been utilised throughout, significantly reducing the building’s carbon footprint and improving its HomeStar rating.
The masterplan for the site includes:
• 147 architecturally designed stand-alone homes
• 97 luxury apartments
• 82 bed rest home, hospital and dementia care facility
• Clubhouse, complete with restaurant, café, movie theatre, pool room, bowling green and croquet lawn.
• Separate health spa, with an indoor heated lap pool accompanied by massage, hairdressing and therapy facilities.
This 4,020m2 facility provides 22 assisted care apartments at ground floor with 47 care units at first floor.
SOMME STREET ASSISTED LIVING AND CARE FACILITY
Each floor provides communal dining and lounge facilities, with a commercial kitchen and laundry at the ground floor. Each apartment opens out onto a private outdoor area. The central courtyard provides a large outdoor sheltered amenity. Additional facilities for the tenants include reading lounge, cafe, laundry, hair salon & bar.
The project is in a residential area, requiring resource consent and consideration of surrounding dwellings. The form and scale of the design is carefully considered to break up the building and present a
high-quality feel to suit the vernacular of the surrounds, whilst maximising allowable site coverage. The success of this approach meant that the design, which was subject to limited notification, did not receive any objection.
This project required an early start on site, achieved with a separate earthworks and sub-structure Building Consent package which progressed in advance of the superstructure works. In addition, the design utilises prefabricated bathrooms to achieve time and quality benefits.
This is the latest stage of the Aria Bay Retirement Village, which provides a main entrance and focal point to the Village, with community café, dining, and entertainment facilities located around three north-facing courtyards.
ARIA BAY APARTMENTS AND CARE
Accommodation includes a care home with 60 units, including a specialist dementia care unit and secure courtyard in a four-storey block to the west of the site. To the east, in two linked five storey blocks with views overlooking the coast, are 52 serviced and independent living apartments. Apartments are designed to suit a variety of residents, and range in size from 1-bedroom units of 55m2 to 3-bedroom units of 115m2.
The project contained complex Resource Consent issues, we were significantly involved in successfully negotiating the design through a Public Hearing process. Stage 1 of the project – the care home - is under construction with completion due in 2021; which will be followed directly with construction of the apartments.
Tamahere Country Club is a Lifestyle Retirement Village situated at Tamahere, near Hamilton
TAMAHERE COUNTRY CLUB – APARTMENTS AND CARE
Location
Tamahere, Hamilton
Status
In progress
The Country Club offers quality architecturally designed villas and lush landscaping within a community environment.
Facilities on-site include a clubhouse with an indoor cinema, billiards room and library. Other onsite recreational activities include a golf driving range, bowling green and a health spa.
The new two-story 7,000m2 care facility will comprise 80 care suites, sun lounges, public and private dining rooms, indoor gardens, and lounge areas. It will also feature a music, arts and craft room, gym, and a cinema.
The architecture is sympathetic to the village vernacular and designed to tie in with the existing clubhouse and spa adjacent to the proposed new building.
Situated over a man-made lake within the development, the 582m2 Tamahere Country Club Lakehouse will provide residents with a unique setting for shared social activities.
TAMAHERE COUNTRY CLUB – LAKE HOUSE
Facilities include a hall seating up to 100, amphitheater, kitchen, bar facilities opening out to the deck space, six indoor table tennis tables, three indoor bowls lanes and a dance studio with timber floor. An adjoining pavilion structure provides an open-air space for BBQs, yoga and other activities.
The contemporary design of the structure ties in with the surrounding buildings; exterior materiality is similar throughout, with long run metal roofs, Hinuera stone veneer
cladding and vertical timber cedar cladding on cavity walls.
The engineered superstructure consists of series of steel portal frames, with timber walls. Aluminum joinery is used throughout, and a large operable wall between the hall and amphitheater spaces can be opened up to join the two areas, creating a flexible space.
Located in the outer Wellington suburb of Crofton Downs, this high-quality residential aged care complex containing independent apartments and care suites was opened in mid-2022.
CROFTON DOWNS APARTMENTS AND CARE
The 16,670m2 development contains 82 residential apartments and 49 care rooms/suites over four living levels. Support facilities include dining, lounge and activity areas including a swimming pool and gym, as well as associated service, administration and ancillary areas.
The building is organised into three wings, running roughly east from the road boundary to the gorge, linked north-south, with landscaped courtyards in-between. The wings are non-parallel, splayed to respond
to the site boundaries, allowing courtyard dwellings greater access to light and views.
The building has been developed to emphasise the domestic residential nature of use rather than an institutional form. This is done for the benefit of the residents and is also an appropriate built form for the location adjacent to the residential areas of Crofton Downs.
Positioned overlooking Tauranga’s inner harbour, the Care and Apartment building at Arvida Bethlehem Shores lifestyle village will provide relaxed retirement living, and complement the existing 273 architecturally designed villas at the site.
BETHLEHEM SHORES
Arvida Bethlehem Shores is a coastal lifestyle village, elevated overlooking the inner Te Awanui Tauranga Harbour. The masterplan for this development includes:
• 237 architecturally designed stand-alone homes
• A new Care and Apartment building with 52 luxury apartments and a 60-bed care and dementia facility
The Care and Apartment building will include amenities such as a café, lounge bar, whanau rooms, hair salon and flexi/craft rooms. The care rooms will be arranged into six households of 10 rooms,
each with their own common kitchen and lounge. The ground level dementia households will each have access to a private secure garden, while a third courtyard garden is set aside for care residents.
The building has been designed to integrate with the existing development and landscape, place an emphasis on modern lifestyle coastal living, and support the Arvida Living Well Community for independent living.
The Aria Park Apartment and Care building, located in Auckland’s Epsom, offers a blend of luxury living and comprehensive care options.
ARIA PARK
Location
Located in the Auckland suburb of Epsom, the Aria Park Apartment and Care building will provide luxury apartment and care options which allow residents to live independently, and access higher level care facilities within the Aria Park village as needed.
Arranged across four storeys, the building consists of:
• 10 dementia care rooms and suites at ground level with secure garden
• 39 care rooms and suites
• 21 care apartments
• communal lounge and dining areas
• administration and support facilities.
Located in the heart of Auckland’s central suburbs, Arvida’s Mt Eden Gardens development will provide a high-end apartment lifestyle in a premium location.
MT EDEN GARDENS
The building comprises a basement and three upper levels, that provides 62 one-, two- and threebedroom ‘Living Well’ apartments, and common amenities (including café, lounge and activities areas, swimming pool and gym).
Presentation to both street frontages has been carefully considered to provide a high level of façade articulation and generous building separations, while still maximising the site yield. Floor to ceiling glazing and generous balconies maximise daylight/ sunlight access and views to provide high quality residential amenity.
The architectural intent has been to create an iconic contemporary architectural form that is respectful of the Mt Eden environs with a sense of familiarity to the local community. The Special Character Overlay control for the 4,417 m² site has had a driving influence on the architecture and materiality of the building, with an Art Deco influence permeating the design.
Located on Auckland’s North Shore, this development in Long Bay has been planned to provide care options for Auckland’s Asian community.
LONG BAY VILLAGE
Architectural and landscape components draw heavily from Asian design forms, while private and shared spaces have been designed to accommodate ways of living familiar to these communities.
The development consists of:
• 30 care units
• 87 one and two-bedroom apartments
• 17 two and three-story villas
• 41 two-storey townhouses
Communal facilities include lounges, dining areas, medical rooms and recreational facilities such as a cinema room, gym, spa and pool. Communal spaces and amenities are distributed across the site to facilitate access to such spaces for all residents, enhance visibility and provide visual amenity.
This Lincoln development will offer a rural lifestyle in close proximity to the local town centre, with the regional hub of Christchurch in easy reach.
LINCOLN PLAINS
The development is proposed to comprise 200, 2 and 3 bed villas in a range of typologies, a 36 suite specialist care facility, and a range of supporting amenity buildings. The design language for the development draws on familiar and appropriate forms and materials for the local context.
Working alongside RMM Landscape Architects, the masterplan for the site focuses on a
safe, well-maintained landscaped setting which includes gardens, outdoor fitness area, wetland areas, bowling greens, and links to pedestrian and cycleways.
Villas are grouped into residential dwelling clusters utilising cul-desac roads, to create community neighbouhoods. Privacy and outlook have been considered for each dwelling.
The
Arvida Wānaka Country Club
is a residential lifestyle village that responds to its rural alpine setting with a contemporary design approach fitting for the location.
WĀNAKA COUNTRY CLUB
Location
Wānaka
Status
In progress
The masterplan includes 164 independent dwellings, a 1,350m2 clubhouse, with an indoor swimming pool, gym, and other facilities, a 28 room care home, residents’ and maintenance sheds, and outdoor amenities including lawn bowls and a pickleball court. The clubhouse and care building are located at the heart of the village, forming a social and visual anchor that supports wayfinding and community identity, while minimising visual impact to neighbouring properties.
Homes feature double pitched roofs and are arranged to maximise privacy, solar access, and views to Roys Peak, Mt Iron, Mt Barker, and the Pisa range. The clubhouse
and care building share a similar architectural language with gable forms, double height internal spaces, and large verandas for shelter. This approach reduces the bulk of the buildings into a series of smaller linked structures.
Architecturally, the village draws on the character of Central Otago’s rural vernacular, with single storey pavilion style buildings, gabled roof forms, and a palette of schist, timber, and metal cladding. The overall design supports living your way, in an environment that encourages neighbourly interaction, and integrates sustainable principles including passive solar design, native planting, and energy-efficient systems.
The Metlifecare community at Mangawhai Heads is shaped by its relaxed coastal setting. At the centre of the 13-hectare site, the 1,100 m² Clubhouse building supports residents of the 160 villas and the 45-room Care Facility, offering a casual, beach-influenced lifestyle.
MANGAWHAI VILLAGE
Location
Mangawhai
Status
In progress
Located at the main arrival point, the building includes lounge, bar and dining areas, a commercial kitchen, library, multi-purpose room, swimming pool, spa, gym and administrative spaces.
Two wings organise the plan: administration faces the entrance with a gabled porte-cochere, while the lounge and recreation wing follows the internal road, opening to covered decks and views over the village green. The neighbouring Care facility is designed as a calm,
domestic environment, with suites grouped in smaller clusters around shared living and dining spaces. Natural light, clear circulation and a warm palette of brick, timber and schist support comfort and independence, with courtyards and terraces linking residents to the landscape.
JTB Architects also refined the masterplan to improve villa yield and mix, and completed Stage 1 design and documentation, including 26 villas.
Wānaka Retirement Village is a new Metlifecare development centred around a Clubhouse and Wellness building that connect directly to a 30-suite Care facility. These shared buildings form the social and operational heart of the village, supporting resident wellbeing and daily activity.
WĀNAKA PEAKS
Within the wider masterplan, 93 villas are arranged in quad, triplex, duplex and standalone formats to create a varied and well - connected neighbourhood. JTB Architects is providing full interior design services for the standalone villas to ensure a premium, site - responsive living experience that aligns with the overall design direction.
The architectural and interior approach emphasises quality, warmth and comfort, drawing on the region’s alpine landscape. A natural palette of brick, timber and schist is complemented by
colours that reference the tones of nearby Mt Iron and align with the Three Parks design guidelines. This creates a cohesive visual identity and strengthens the development’s connection to place.
Preliminary Design has been completed, and the project is now progressing through the documentation stages.
This design concept offers to create a connected and sustainable community with the Kākā Valley, with particular focus on place making, social interaction, solar access and natural landscape environment, and providing an outwardlooking, inclusive and permeable layout to create connections and integrate into the wider community.
MAITAHI VILLAGE
Location Nelson Status In progress
The development comprises: 193 villas, townhouses, & units; 36 care & dementia rooms; and shared communal facilities: Living Well Centre, Resident’s Clubhouse, & Pavilion.
These buildings, spread out across the upper & lower sites totalling 9.9 hectares, vary in use, materiality, and scale.
The development has key consideration of cultural requirements with ongoing input and partnership with mana whenua. The prepared Cultural Values Preliminary Report (CVPR) outlines iwi values, cultural context including significant sites, and iwi engagement both previous and ongoing.
Maitahi Village, as part of the larger Maitai Valley, also endeavours to express the special and distinctive landscape qualities of the Kākā Valley and its integration with the adjacent river context and neighbourhoods.
This involves: extensive sustainable and regenerative landscape planting practices, connecting with surroundings both physically and visually, supporting social engage-ment, and providing high levels of amenity for residents. These Te Ao Māori informed practices will enrich and enhance the neighbourhood and offer an authentic sense of place for the future.
