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The practice.
In perspective.
Background, people and project context for journalists, industry partners and collaborators.
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Design by Williams is a Christchurch based architectural design company working on homes, townhouses and multi-unit residential developments across New Zealand. The practice grew from Williams Corporation’s in-house design team and became a standalone company in 2025. Its approach brings independent thinking together with practical experience of residential development.
- Company
- Design by Williams Limited
Company number 9336318 ↗
NZBN 9429052801143 - Directors
- Nathan Veevers
Matthew Horncastle
Blair Chappell - Design contact
- Nathan Veevers, Design Director
- Office
- 2/835 Colombo Street
Central City, Christchurch
New Zealand - Focus
- Residential design, townhouses, multi-unit developments and master planning.
Further reading
Context for the work.
Design perspective
A clear idea, carried through.
How the site, the plan and the materials work together to give a building a clear architectural direction.
Read our design perspective ↗Our story
A practice of our own.
How experience within Williams Corporation developed into an independent architectural design practice.
Read our story ↗Project background
Ideas made tangible.
Explore selected project experience, including work undertaken through Williams Corporation’s design team.
Explore the portfolio ↗From the practice
Follow the work.
Find Design by Williams on our official social profiles for updates from the practice.
Media enquiries
Let’s give the story
its proper context.
Contact Nathan for interviews, practice information, project photography and image credits. Please include the publication or organisation, the subject and your deadline.
Nathan.Veevers@designbywilliams.com
03 288 2599
For projects completed before the standalone practice was established, describe the work as experience gained within Williams Corporation’s design team. Confirm the project attribution and image credits with Nathan before publication.