Dark stained cedar lakefront home at dusk with warm interior light, lake and mountains behind

Board-formed concrete and timber coastal house with wide eaves facing the sea

Black steel gabled rural home set in open paddocks with hills behind

Architecture for the way you live in Taupō

A Taupō design practice working on lakefront, coastal and rural homes, kitchens and commercial developments, with every visualisation produced in-house.

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JT Design Architecture has been designing buildings around Lake Taupō for more than two decades. We work slowly at the start, so the drawings, the consent and the build all go quickly later.

Selected projects

Cedar-clad lakefront house with a cantilevered upper floor and glass balustrade deck above the water

Kinloch Lake House

Kinloch, Taupō · 2024

A cedar-clad family home stepped down a steep lakefront site, with living opening directly to the water.

Dark brick house of two pavilions with oak soffits and a sheltered courtyard at dusk

Acacia Bay Residence

Acacia Bay, Taupō · 2023

Two dark brick pavilions arranged around a sheltered courtyard, holding the view without giving up privacy.

Boutique accommodation of repeating timber pavilions set around a concrete courtyard beneath mature trees

Whakamoenga Point Lodge

Whakamoenga Point, Taupō · 2022

Guest accommodation broken into repeating timber pavilions so the buildings sit quietly beneath mature trees.

All projects

What we do

Open plan living space with timber-lined ceiling looking out to a New Zealand lake

Residential Design

New homes, alterations and additions for lakefront, coastal and rural sites.

Contemporary kitchen with oak cabinetry and a stone island bench

Kitchen Design

Considered joinery, bench and appliance layouts documented to build.

Dark timber clad commercial building with a glazed corner shopfront on a Taupō street

Commercial Design

Hospitality, retail and accommodation developments across the district.

Grey three dimensional architectural render of a modern two storey house

3D Visualisation

Renders produced in-house so you see the building before it is built.

Visualisation

See the building before it is built

We produce all of our three dimensional visualisations in-house, alongside the drawings. That means you can test materials, massing and light on screen, while changes still cost nothing.