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Kinloch Manor and Villas: Winner of New Zealand architecture awards with best commercial architecture & best hospitality and retail
Sitting on 254 hectares of stunning Lake Taupo shoreline, Kinloch Manor is the kind of place that makes you do a double-take; it’s not your typical Kiwi lodge. Award-winning architect Ken Crosson reckons it’s like “a reinterpreted modern-day Scottish Baronial Castle”, and honestly, that’s spot on. This is a proper stone fortress of a building that’s “massive, heavy and powerful”, the sort of construction you just don’t see much of in New Zealand. But here’s the clever bit: instead of trying to blend into the landscape as so many other places do, Kinloch Manor owns its presence and uses that hefty stone structure to perfectly frame those jaw-dropping lake views from pretty much everywhere you look. It’s like the architects said, “Right, we’re going big, but we’re going to make sure every window showcases that incredible Lake Taupo panorama.”
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