Ocean Restaurant at Te Arai Links overlooks the 18th green and the pacific ocean. It is the ultimate place to unwind and take in the wide ocean views.
Winner | 2026 NZIA Auckland Architecture Award Hospitality
"Ocean Restaurant is a deft piece of hospitality architecture by John Irving — calm, confident, and technically highly resolved. While connected to the wider Te Arai resort development, it maintains a strong identity of its own. The detailing is disciplined; ventilation, drainage, and the hidden machinery of hospitality are handled with real finesse. The raised bar seating cleverly creates prospect and refuge, enriching the guest experience, while the material language carries through with cohesion and warmth. This is sophisticated hospitality architecture from a practiced hand — expertly executed, highly considered, and delivering its brief with quiet confidence and genuine architectural maturity."
NZIA Jury Citation. Auckland Branch Award - Hospitality
The Ocean Restaurant follows a simple rectangular form with large sheltered eaves to all sides providing protection from the elements. The restaurant is experienced along a central spine in three zones:
The restaurant features an enclosed space that works all year round but is designed to feel outdoors with a translucent roof, and is able to be completely opened up on calm days.
The interiors were done in association with Jenni Kayne.
- Photographer
- Jono Parker
