COLLABORATIONS / ARCHITECTURE AND HOSPITALITY
Designed
around
a place.
Awe brings a practice of attention to architecture and hospitality. We design instruments, objects and books that help people notice what is happening around the places they live and stay.
Every collaboration starts with a particular outlook, the life around it and the people who spend time there.
01 / ARCHITECTURE / COLLABORATION
Whitaker Architects
A view that keeps revealing itself.
A window frames a ridgeline. A terrace catches the evening light. Architecture gives us a place to encounter the landscape. With Whitaker Architects, we explore how a home can also draw our attention to the right moment.
The Moon appearing above a particular ridge. A bird returning to the garden. An aurora visible across the lake. We are developing instruments that respond to the conditions at one address and give the people there a reason to look.
The ambition extends beyond an alert. An object, a book or a record of changing colour can make the surrounding world part of daily life. Each work begins with the site and the architectural brief, so its form belongs to the home and its meaning grows through living there.
02 / HOSPITALITY / ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
QT Queenstown
More of the place in every stay.
Awe is currently artist in residence at QT Queenstown. The collaboration explores how a hotel can help guests meet the landscape while something extraordinary is happening. A few nights can hold an encounter that changes how someone remembers a place.
We are developing ways to connect observations of the sky with astronomical, weather and regional scientific data. The intention is a simple invitation: what is happening, where to look and whether it can be seen from the hotel.
The work extends into a field guide, records of the sky and objects shaped by local light. Each offers a way to look more closely, connect with the place and carry something of that encounter into memory.
03 / ONE PRACTICE. DIFFERENT TIMESCALES.
One practice. Different timescales.
A hotel stay may last a few nights. A home may hold decades. Both offer a place from which to begin paying attention.
We start by looking at what is already there. Then we develop the instruments, objects or books that make those encounters part of the experience of the place. The form follows the setting, its rhythms and the people who use it.