Rupert Reed has been appointed as DKO Auckland Studio Director and Scott Jury will now assume the role of DKO Auckland Consulting Director.

Reed says that DKO’s talent for conceptualising exceptional design outcomes and its natural ability to build teams and nurture client relations is the key to the practice’s success. “First and foremost, we are designers and we communicate best through visual media and bringing our clients with us to realise a design. We listen to everyone in order to conceive the ultimate design,” he says.

As DKO Auckland Studio Director, Reed will manage a design team that will eventually deliver over 600 new dwellings and hotel keys throughout New Zealand. Reed will continue to work closely with Jury, whose leadership role will aid the team to success. “At DKO, we uphold the intellectual rigour behind our work and together we explore a brief to find a clever and commercially viable solution,” says Jury.

DKO was established in 2000 by founding partners Christchurch-born Koos de Keijzer and Zvonko Orsanic. An Asian-Pacific studio, DKO has offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Ho Chi Minh City and Auckland, with major projects being designed and built throughout Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

The DKO Auckland studio was established in 2014 by de Keijzer. Now employing 11 people, de Keijzer believes the unifying concept for DKO’s work in New Zealand is the ability to implement large-scale projects “with finesse and sophistication, combining both big-picture thinking and architectural excellence.”

“DKO has the vision, the people and the experience to design and deliver great architecture that stands the test of time,” says de Keijzer.