Welcome to Klein. We believe architectural thinking has the power to change lives for the better. In fact, we’ve been doing exactly that since 1991. Our award winning and people focussed practice has delivered transformative design services to government, private businesses and not-for-profit clients throughout New Zealand. It is what we are great at, and what we love doing.
A practice for positive change.
With a talented and tight-knit team of 45 staff, Klein is widely regarded as New Zealand’s most experienced and acclaimed health care design practice.
Driven by a love of life-enhancing architecture, we take great satisfaction in creating beautiful spaces that respect regional and cultural influences, and contribute in some way to the wellbeing of people and communities.
Our body of work has strong groundings in the health sector, branching over time into wellness-focused solutions for commercial organisations, universities, retirement facilities and multi-unit residential developments.
While we’re well known for delivering projects with considerable scale and complexity, we equally relish applying our architectural, urban design and interior services to smaller, more intimate environments.
Comprehensive design solutions for hospital campuses, specialist medical facilities and clinical spaces.
View ProjectsFull-service architectural services for self-care apartments, assisted living and residents’ facilities.
View ProjectsInnovative solutions and urban design for multi-storey apartments, community housing and communal spaces.
View ProjectsWe intimately understand the role master planning plays in creating the bigger picture. By taking a visionary approach, our services provide clients with a clear path to future goals and objectives – allowing them to unlock potential incrementally over time.
Our talented designers bring project briefs to life with an inspiring mix of innovative and practical architectural ideas. Working to address setting, site, and cultural and regional influences, we deliver solutions to meet project scope, budget and any unique requirements.
Collaborative design and inclusive planning are words with meaning for us; we actively engage and lead user group meetings and workshops with broad representation of users to support and challenge review of service delivery and design requirements.
With extensive experience supporting significant health projects through the business case phases around the country Klein has a clear understanding of a 5-case process and the options and inputs required to inform them.
With nearly 30 years in the field, Klein offers unparalleled experience in New Zealand hospital and healthcare facilities. Our expertise covers a full range of services and best practices from brief development right through to business case and project feasibility.
Our in house knowledge allows us to support clients with the development of clinical services planning requirements, challenging and testing briefing, design functionality critical adjacencies and flows, schedules of accommodation and writing of functional briefs.
Have a passion for life-changing architectural design? Looking for an architecture firm with excellent career development opportunities?
