Nat Cheshire

Award-winning designer and future thinker

Nat Cheshire is the designer behind Auckland's best-known character-defining developments, such as Britomart, City Works Depot and Morningside Precinct. Nat thinks big picture, using his talents to redefine and reshape Auckland city and forge new community hubs by thinking creatively and bravely. 

Nat runs Cheshire Architects, a studio of two dozen designers, with his dad Pip, operating across an enormous breadth of types and scales. Nat leaps daily from graphic design to light fittings to basement cocktail dens to luxury retreats to whole chunks of the inner city.

Nat’s work has been awarded eight Best Award gold pins in four years, he’s personally won Metro’s Designer of the Year twice, HOME’s Home of the Year and taken out their Product of the Year twice, and made Auckland University’s 40 under 40 Influencers list. His work is regularly published in global editions like Monocle, Wallpaper, Dezeen and Dwell. 

Nat Cheshire