Reset Urban Design

Reset Urban Design is a specialist urban design and landscape architecture consultancy with offices in Auckland and Wanaka, covering the North and South Islands of Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Ours is fundamentally a design company focused on applying constant learning and improvements to the critical and ever-changing interaction of people and their environment. We offer a […]

The landscape is not preserved — it is inhabited, productive, and still growing. Context & Site: What was once a run-down coastal runoff block, eroded, leaking, and marginal, is now one of New Zealand’s most distinctive landscapes. Brick Bay Farm Park occupies 150 hectares of coastal headland on the Hauraki Gulf: drowned river valleys, steep […]

At the foot of the Southern Alps, a glacially carved lake holds a small alpine town to its shore. The light moves fast here. The mountains are close. The water is extraordinarily clear. This is a landscape that does not need improvement, only respect. The Wānaka Lakefront Reserve is, above all, an act of restraint: […]

One hundred and fifty years ago the councillors, of the then small gold mining town of Queenstown, had the foresight and determination to reserve the large headland adjacent to the township as a public garden. In 2016 the Queenstown Lakes District Council decided the most fitting way to commemorate this major anniversary was to create […]

The upgrade of Hurstmere Road has successfully transformed a formally tired, vehicle dominated, and low amenity street into a revitalised open, vibrant beachside retail destination that is focused on people. It is an exemplary showcase of a street that has been successfully retrofitted for flexible transition and truly designed as a space that is first […]