Hone was founded after many years of practice.
We are a Landscape Architecture studio that appreciates the finer details of craft, and what it takes to apply learned experience—as referenced in the name of the practice.
How we work
Hone is derived from the art of practicing or refining one’s craft. It is a nod to the future as we aim to evolve over time while striving for continued excellence & improvement.
We seek to maintain a small scale studio environment to ensure a dedicated team are able to look after your project needs, while nurturing talent and excellent design thinking for our clients.
Our clients are on the journey and contributing their own creativity, expertise and direction to projects .
We take lessons learned from years of practice, with the aim to edit, sharpen and improve and refine along the design journey.
Our Services
We tailor our approach to meet each individual project’s needs, to provide you with an efficient, considered & professional service while allowing for iteration, creativity and enjoyment along the way.
Design & Delivery
We offer full Landscape Architecture and Design services for all scales of projects in the urban realm, including public and private environments. Our strength is grounded in collaboration, bringing skillsets together in the vision setting and creation phases while applying rigour and craft to see projects through to documentation & construction on site.
Co-Design & Engagement
Local partnerships with knowledge bases cannot be undervalued. We thrive in learning, listening, connecting and forming relationships with people to ensure projects are successful and prosperous for the communities we work in. We will always spend time understanding a place, its stories, histories and how to access the makers in that place.
Design Review & Advisory Services
From technical design review to clear and considered design thinking, we use our many years of practice, experience & trusted delivery to help clients and collaborators navigate project nuances and challenges.
Master Planning & Strategy
We offer full Landscape Architecture and Design services for all scales of projects in the urban realm, including public and private environments. Our strength is grounded in collaboration, bringing skillsets together in the vision setting and creation phases while applying rigour and craft to see projects through to documentation & construction on site.
Place & Making
We love to make things. We’ll work with you, the community and other makers to test and trial spatial ideas & activations using different mediums to best communicate the design approach.
Volunteering & Community
Driven in our values, we are dedicated to sharing our skillsets to help our community to improve the built environment. We offer volunteering & upfront pro-bono design advice for community groups to help unlock the design and planning phases of their projects.
We do the groundwork in order to tread lightly.
We build what nurtures the land.
We craft place-based solutions.
We are honest.
Our Values
Our values define how we wish to work alongside our clients collaborators and fellow creators.
We enjoy working alongside other makers with similar values to strengthen project outcomes and build more resilient communities.
Our Director
Hone’s Director is Andrew Norriss, a designer with an ever-evolving portfolio developed over years of contribution to projects across Aotearoa. His many years of project delivery to all aspects of the public realm have been transformational, delivering all parts that make up a project.
He believes in leaving landscapes more resilient through careful intervention that ultimately mean better outcomes for current and future communities. He is often working across scales, from city centre master planning, streetscapes, urban spaces and town centres and campuses to parks, gardens, and stream daylighting to support wider housing, residential and community projects.
Andrew’s strength is that he can hold a project vision from conception to completion in which he takes pride in the creativity and rigour required to see a project through.
His work is award winning, always place-driven and connected to past and present stories of a landscape.
