Nat Cheshire left Senior College in 1998 having completed University Bursary Geography, Painting, Printmaking, Art History, Physics, English, Mathematics with Calculus and Classics. It was clear that his future lay in artistic endeavour and he embarked upon a year at Elam Art School to study painting.

The following year he shifted his creative focus from paintings to buildings, and spent his time between Architects Pacific in Fiji and Pete Bossley Architects in Auckland. A year of focussing on buildings and the way they are made ignited a passion in Nat, leading to his enrolment in architecture at the University of Auckland.

In his second year of study Nat opened his own practice. At the end of his fourth year, he left university to establish Cheshire Architects with his father; Pip Cheshire was until then running the largest firm in the country and Nat the smallest. They joined forces. Nat has since returned to University to graduate in two degrees of architecture, and now teaches and designs full-time from the Cheshire office.

Nat is very clear that he is a delineator, rather than an architect, and is proud of this. When asked where he wants to be in five years he stated “building more of the things I have drawn”. To date he says he has had “extraordinary projects to work on”.  He has had the opportunity to design everything from 1000sq metre luxury hotels for international clients, to highly detailed fit-outs for major arts patrons.

In the short time since leaving the College, Nat has achieved a great deal, and there is more in store in the future.