HoneStudio was founded after many years of practice.

We are a Landscape Architecture studio that appreciates the finer details of craft as referenced in our name.

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 approach is driven by a shared passion, where our clients are on the journey and contributing their own creativity, expertise and project direction.

The Hone approach to design takes lessons learned from years of practice, with the aim to edit, sharpen and improve and refine for the better.

Our Values

Our values define how we wish to work alongside our clients and collaborators.

We enjoy working alongside other makers with similar values to strengthen project outcomes and build more resilient communities.

We do the groundwork in order to tread lightly.

We build what nurtures the land.

We craft place-based solutions.

We are honest.

Our Services

  • We offer full professional design services for all scales of projects from public environments to housing and residential. We specialise in conception of projects to documentation & construction on site.

    • Parks & Open Spaces

    • Playgrounds / Play Along the Way

    • Greenways & Daylighting

    • Streetscape Design

    • Civic & Memorial Landscapes

    • City & Town Centres

    • Heritage Landscapes

    • Waterfront & Water’s edge

    • Boardwalks & Structures

    • Tourism & Visitor Experience

    • Community Housing & Residential Design

    • Botanic Gardens

    • Water Sensitive Urban Design

    • Rain Gardens

  • Placing landscape values and urban outcomes at the centre of city, town centre, tertiary and campus planning. We will establish design principles and key moves to guide future development, including creation of key projects to start in the short, medium and long term.

    • Landscape Master Plans

    • Parks and Open Spaces Master Planning

    • Urban Master Plans

    • Urban Design & Review

    • Streetscape Master Plans

    • Town Centre Master Plans

    • Landscape Strategies

    • Feasibility Studies

    • Housing / Community Master Plans

    • Spatial Planning

    • Site Planning

  • We love to make things. We’ll work with you, the community and other makers to test and trial ideas using different mediums to best communicate the design approach.

    • Activation & Engagement

    • Temporary Activations

    • Testing and Trialling

    • Bespoke Features

    • Play along the way

    • Sculpture & Artwork integration

    • Making & Modelling

  • 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 ultimately meaning better outcomes for current and future communities. He is often working across scales, from city centre masterplanning, 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.