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Acute Mental Health

Ngā Wai Ngaro, the Acute Mental Health Unit beside Palmerston North Hospital, is designed to provide a calm, home-like environment that connects with its natural surroundings. Insol Solaris 200x50 louvres follow the building’s roofline, helping to manage daylight across extensive glazing while reducing glare and thermal gain. Across the main façade, the louvres, finished in a Metwood Dark Australian Cedar create a welcoming visual corridor above the entrance, while to either side, a 90-degre...

McDonalds Hamilton East

Insol Solaris 150 Louvres spaced at 150mm centres, coated in a Metwood Light Oak finish create a striking features and soften the elevations beside the entry doors of this McDonalds restaurant....

Mairangi Bay Pump Station

The new Mairangi Bay Pump Station, part of a $22.5 million development to protect local beaches and reserves, combines high-performance infrastructure with thoughtful architectural design. Perforated aluminium screens on the south elevation, featuring two local Pohutukawa trees, cover over 35 sqm and are finished in a Metwood Aged Copper coating that mimics the natural patina of aged Corten steel. This finish delivers the industrial character of weathered steel without the maintenance challeng...

ACG Parnell

ACG Parnell College’s new five-storey facility creates a seamless transition between the campus’s traditional red brick buildings and its modern architecture. A defining feature of this connection is the stairwell, where Insol Solaris 200x50 aluminium louvres with a Metwood Dark Kwila finish wrap two exposed sides, introducing height, rhythm, and a sense of privacy. Their close spacing provides effective shading while still allowing natural light and outward views, ensuring the space feels o...

Little Lakes Development, Hamilton

The Little Lakes development in Hamilton — comprising a bakehouse and multiple industrial tenancies — incorporates Spectrum Seamless Balustrade and Aluminium 100 * 50 Soho louvres to enhance street-facing elevations and add architectural interest.Finished in Metwood® Dark Australian Cedar, the battens provide a striking timber-look feature while offering the long-term durability and minimal maintenance benefits of aluminium — ideal for high-exposure commercial environments....

The Botanic, Silverdale

The recently completed Botanic Silverdale features Spectrum 150 * 50 Soho louvre  screens finished in a Metood Kwila, providing privacy to generously sized outdoor spaces while maintaining light and airflow into the apartments. The warm timber look finish softens the strong modern concrete lines of the building and complements the landscaped surroundings, delivering a refined atheistic without the ongoing upkeep typically associated with natural timber.  ...

Oceania Awatere Village, Hamilton

Stage 3 of the Awatere Village, owned by Oceania Healthcare has been thoughtfully designed to complement its central Hamilton location. Spectrum 50*50 SHS battens finished in a Metwood Dark Cedar were installed between units to provide separation and privacy, while allowing natural light to flood through the floor to ceiling windows. 40*20 fins were also installed for extra screening around AC units. Spectrum privacy screens with a Metwood finish were also used in Stage 2 of this development, ...

The Stables, Tauranga

Aurae aluminium SOLARIS 110-S battens were installed on this apartment development in Tauranga.The objective was to provide an attractive visual aspect, while also providing screening for privacy.Battens of up to 6m long were required to cover the two levels of the development in a cohesive lineal aspect.Finished in a Metwood Cool Cedar these aluminium battens provide a long lasting, virtually maintenance free softer timber look, that doesn’t suffer from warping that would be expected on a tim...

Private Residence, New Plymouth

Aurae aluminium battens with a Metwood finish have been installed on a variety of residential homes throughout New Zealand. Aurae clients have been choosing this to overcome maintenace issues and provide the visual apperance of timber.This house in New Plymouth has installed Aurae’s Solaris 180 clasp fixed louvre system battens finished in a Metwood light cool cedar....

Town Houses, St Heliers

The original design for the terraced houses called for timber louvres, however a more cost-effective solution that required less maintenance was needed, while still providing a sleek timber look.Aurae Solaris 110 clasp-fixed louvres were supplied with a Metwood Light Manuka finish. This woodgrain finish is near identical to the original timber specified which allowed the architect to achieve the same design aesthetic.There are many benefits to using aluminium louvre blades for a project like thi...

Christchurch Gallery

A roomful of industrial-scale extrusions folded into unexpected and compelling new forms. In the crisp white cube of a gallery space, new structures emerge. Aluminium extrusions, finished with a Metwood Yakasugi coating are folded into strange new shapes, until their factory-finished uniformity gives away to something unexpected: fleeting, imperfect glimpses of the natural world. Abandoning the monumental for something more open-ended, renowned Aotearoa New Zealand artist Peter Robinson (Kāi Ta...

Queenstown House

This Queenstown home combines Vulcan Flashings in Metwood ‘Aged Copper’ with Vulcan UltraBatten in Metwood ‘Australian Cedar’ to create a bold, cohesive look that’s virtually maintenance free.The flashings replicate the distinctive appearance of corten steel but are lightweight, non-corrosive, and free from leaching issues, while the aluminium battens provide durable, long-lasting performance — perfect for challenging environments....

Geraldine Medical Facility

Vulcan UltraBatten, finished in Metwood ‘Rich Walnut’ woodgrain coating, has been installed on the roof gables and upper sections of the external walls to create a refined architectural feature that contrasts beautifully with the stonework and black powder-coated elements.Manufactured from high-quality aluminium and finished with the durable Metwood powder-coated woodgrain system, the battens deliver the warmth and appearance of real timber with none of the associated maintenance. Resistant ...

Metwood Art by Metwood

At Metwood, we decided to push the boundaries and create our own piece of art.  We powder coated a ‘canvas’ 5 separate times with different powders.  We then used 10 different films to produce 13 different Metwood finishes, highlighting the breadth of what is possible from our Marble, Corten, Verdigris, Yakasugi and Carbon Fibre finishes, through to more traditional woodgrains....

Coutry Club Huapai, Auckland

"a superior retirement lifestyle for the over 60’s, in the heart of Auckland wine country"(www.countryclubhuapai)MetWood's Black Wattle woodgrain finish has been used to provide warmth and elegance to Insol's soffits, wall returns, baffles around the balconies and the imposing 4-storey entrance archway.Featuring extensively on both front and back elevations of the Country Club Building, the same MetWood finish is also included on the individual housing units in the surrounding retirement villa...

Residential Development, Auckland

A Metwood weathered cedar finish was chosen to finish the Aliclad aluminium cladding boards that have been installed on this Auckland townhouse development, to provide a durable timber look. The aluminium cladding boards have been applied to most of the external facade of this development and compliment the alternative external finishes that have been used....

Metwood Louvre & Batten Projects

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Multi-Unit Residential Development, Massey, Auckland

Vulcan aluminium cladding boards were applied to this town house development in Massey.  The cladding boards were finished in a Metwood ® teak timber look to provide a virtually maintenance free long lasting finish....

Pool Art

As art transcends the line back into construction, where aluminium panels have been sculptured into an art form and finished in a Metwood Aged Copper finish and placed above a pool to provide an attractive feature element. ...

Litchfield Tower, Auckland

This project involved modernising an existing retirement village to bring it up to expectations of what retirement living looks like today.The architect's design uses a Metwood Natural Tawa finish on the newly added louvres to establish a warmer, more welcoming aesthetic that grounds the building in the surrounding nature.  The Metwood Natural Tawa finish was applied to Insol’s Solaris 100 and Caldera 88 louvres, delivering the look of wood, but with the durability of aluminium.They contr...

Education Facility – Te Wananga Aotearoa New Plymouth Campus

APG Architects transformed a deteriorating former DB Tavern and church into a vibrant tertiary education campus for Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Metwood Dark Cedar was applied to random-width Vulcan aluminium cladding boards over the existing drive-through, delivering a rich timber aesthetic with none of the upkeep.The warm, natural timber look contrasts against the dark charcoal-painted cladding, emphasizing the new entrance. When placed alongside real timber louvres, the Metwood finish is indisting...

Medical Facility, Hamilton

APG Architects specified Metwood Light Oak for the vertical shiplap cladding, exterior louvres, and the interior staircase. Externally, the Metwood finish contrasts with white Alucobond panels and STO veneer, creating a refined façade, while the external louvres provide solar screening and add visual depth. Internally, the Metwood-coated staircase is paired with glass and integrated lighting and forms a striking feature within the atrium.This combination of aesthetics and performance has been w...

Commercial Property, Queenstown

Insol's elliptical louvres were added to this commercial property to create a stunning feature facade, to complement the industrial concrete look and black steel features.Using Metwood's patina finishes they were able to achieve a corten appearance without the associated leaching issues.  They were also able to achieve this look using lightweight aluminium providing ease of installation. The finish is virtually maintenance free and is backed by a warranty....

Awatere Rest Home & Village, Hamilton

Stage 2 of Oceania's Awatere village Spectrum installed louvres throughout stage 2 of the Awatere Retirement Village in Hamilton, finished in a Metwood Cedar finish.The Metwood finish was chosen to provide a natural wooden look to soften the appearance, while realising all the benefits of aluminium, including for installation, and on going maintenance. Metwood was also used throughout the stairwells to provide a hard wearing wooden look, and tying into the external features of the buil...

Residential House, Waihi

This residential home has been clad in a Flashclad Dualboard 01 finished in a Metwood Light Cool Cedar finish and installed by Cladman, to compliment the schist stone finish and other black powder coated cladding.The Metwood finish on aluminum cladding provides a long lasting and virtually maintenance free finish, that will withstand the elements for years to come....