About Us

Our Story

The year 2022 marked a significant milestone and celebration for the practice, marking It's ‘40 years in the business’. What Colin has established in 1982 has moved and continues to flow from strength to strength gaining, maintaining, and adding to the ever-evolving building industry resulting in a plethora of experience in all aspects & avenues of design considerations.

In his personal capacity, Colin's continuous development and a multitude of projects under his belt both nationally and internationally with the greatest concentrate of projects within the Manawatu region makes for an immeasurable wealth of “know how” further pushing the boundaries to what he is able to contribute to a well-shaped built environment.

As of April 2022, senior staff member Marcell Thangamuthu has been introduced as a partner to the practice. Marcell, joining Duckett Architecture in 2018 along with his then 10 years experience in the Architecture, Urban Design & Master planning disciplines has got on board and taken on the current on-going commercial projects in the office, with new developments from inception to completion.

In more recent times Marcell has gotten into the developed design stage of boutique residential and multi-residential development's where limited spaces and site constraints had to be carefully considered whilst not allowing it to redefine the design intent.

What we do

Be it a tiny home or a major turn-key development integrating multi-disciplinary consortiums, we are eager and willing to provide the most suitable, sustainable and timeless design tailored to suit ones needs. At least, we provide individuals and developers alike with the best well-informed advice on taking their next steps to further their vision.

  • Residential
  • Commercial
  • Industrial
  • Educational
  • Institutional
  • Assembly
  • Urban Design
  • Social Housing
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Project Administration
  • Conceptual Design
  • Hard Landscape

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