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A million-dollar complex of six fully-electric Dunedin townhouses has been recognised on the national stage.
Otherplaces’ ‘‘Cannington Place’’ development received an excellence in the multi-unit residential property category at this year’s Property Industry Awards, hosted by the Property Council of New Zealand in Auckland on Friday.
It was the only Dunedin project to receive excellence.
Five others received merit.
Otherplaces director Dylan Cazemier said the recognition of the project was ‘‘fantastic’’.
‘‘We knew that it was a good project and to see it recognised by a national body is really good,’’ Mr Cazemier said.
‘‘Out of everywhere in the country, this is showing that Dunedin is delivering housing that is the best-in-class example of what multi-residential housing should look like, and can look like into the future.’’
The Maori Hill property is described on the company’s website as an ‘‘exclusive residential enclave’’ comprised of six 163sq m townhouses, each with three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
It was designed by Architecture Design Studio and constructed from brick made in Canterbury.
Two of the six homes remain on the market and are valued at $1.455 million.
Mr Cazemier said the homes were fully electric, two of them featuring solar panels and had electric vehicle charging sockets.
Otherplaces bought the site two and a-half years ago, spent one year designing the project and one year building it.
The townhouses were completed in December last year.
‘‘In terms of really luxurious, high-end ‘townhomes’ that are well designed in Maori Hill, there is not really anything else out there.’’
Otherplaces had been investing in property in Dunedin for the past 20 years; Mr Cazemier said he had been running the projects for the past 12 years.
He was born in Dunedin, studied in Australia and lived in Chile and Sydney before returning to the city.
The ethos of Otherplaces was to create distinct architectural buildings that were different to what was out there.
‘‘The idea is that a space becomes a place through imbued meaning of living and interacting in a particular space.
‘‘They hold meaning over time.’’
Mr Cazemier was the co-founder and development manager of the award-winning Ebb-Dunedin hotel, in Filleul St, which was completed in 2021.
Construction was also under way on Otherplaces’ ‘‘Hanover Place’’ development, a three-storey student accommodation building comprising 16 studio apartments.
It would be finished by the end of the year, in time for students to move in before semester one next year.
Three townhouses in St Clair, ‘‘Albert Place’’, were also in the works, Mr Cazemier said.