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UA Studio

Architecture firm · Merivale, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 252 Christchurch architects.

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Checked12 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
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UA Studio

Architecture firm · Merivale, Christchurch

Where you stand#218of 252 architects
Overall health1.4/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

UA Studio are architects in Merivale, Christchurch, designing house and garden, city and street. They take a holistic approach to projects of any scale, aiming to create distinguished, unified places. Services include bespoke homes, heritage renovations and passive solar design. Their work balances site, climate and form to integrate buildings with their surroundings.

UA Studio is an architectural practice based in Merivale, Christchurch, that designs architecture and environs across scales from houses to public streets and gardens. The studio describes its work as focused on creating unified places where building and landscape are considered together.

The practice specialises in residential architecture, with an emphasis on bespoke homes, heritage renovations and passive solar design. Project work is framed around house and garden relationships as well as broader urban contexts - city and street - so design decisions often consider both the dwelling and its surrounding setting.

Clients commission UA Studio for new custom homes, careful renovation of heritage properties and approaches that respond to climate through passive solar strategies. Customer interactions typically involve close collaboration around site-specific solutions that address orientation, daylight and the connection between indoor and outdoor spaces. The studio's methods aim to deliver cohesive outcomes that reflect both the brief and the local context.

Located in Merivale, UA Studio positions itself as a local practice attentive to Christchurch's suburban and urban fabric. Its holistic approach and stated focus on integrating building and landscape are practical distinguishing features for clients seeking architecture that links house, garden and street in a considered way.

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Your Google listing

UA Studio's Google Business Listing shows overall health as low, with a 2.8 out of 10. The profile has essential basics like website link, title, claimed status, phone, and full address, but gaps remain. The most important findings are that the listing lacks a logo and needs more high-quality photos, while the description is still basic. These factors impact visibility and credibility for local clients.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top three opportunities

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    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
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    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
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    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
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From the business

UA Studio are architects that design architecture + environs - house and garden, city and street. Regardless of scale, our holistic approach creates distinguished and unified places.

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Your reviews

UA Studio shows very low health on Google reviews with an overall health score of 1.2 out of 10. The top findings are a weak rating confidence and very few or no reviews, plus no responses to existing reviews. Addressing these areas can build trust with potential clients and improve perceived reliability.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
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    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
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Google reviewsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #163 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

UA Studio shows a below-average health score of 3.6 out of 10 for Google Maps search rankings, indicating there is room to improve visibility. Top opportunities focus on expanding aggregate map visibility and strengthening the borough presence. Notably, rankings for key terms like architecture firm in merivale, architect in merivale, and building designer in merivale are already solid, suggesting targeted optimisations could lift overall performance.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
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1Seen in 1 search across Christchurch, top three in none
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Map positionsChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #166 for map positions
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Where customers find you

UA Studio shows a healthy overall health of 0.8 out of 10 (Very low) in the Citations & Social Presence area, indicating limited presence on key platforms. The strongest recent achievement is a LinkedIn Company listing that helps reach customers through that channel. Key opportunities focus on establishing active profiles on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn, plus a TikTok Directory listing to improve visibility and trust.

Strengths

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    LinkedIn CompanyWe can see your LinkedIn Company listing (https://linkedin.com/company/ua-studio-nz) found via: Google search results.
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    NZIA PracticeWe can see your NZIA Practice listing (https://nzia.co.nz/ua-studio) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
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    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
18 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
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Listings and socialChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #215 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
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Facebook pageChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #176 for your Facebook page
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Your website

UA Studio's on-page health sits below average, with a 3.7 out of 10. Key strengths include a valid favicon, secure HTTPS content, absence of frames, an SEO-friendly URL, and a page under 256KB. The main opportunities focus on refining meta description and title tag lengths while lifting the overall on-page SEO score and content depth.

Strengths

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    Domain HealthYour site answers cleanly over a secure connection, so a customer clicking through from Google lands where they expect with nothing in the way.
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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.

Top three opportunities

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    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
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    The shape of your link profileNo links to your site were found, so there is no shape to read yet.
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    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

UA Studio's Website Traffic health sits in the moderate range, with a 4.3 out of 10 average. The mix shows some organic strength-organic traffic value is above the 25th percentile-while paid activity is currently unclear or minimal. The key focus should be on building paid visibility and refining organic reach to sustain and grow traffic.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
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1About 18 visits a month from search, across 8 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #141 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

UA Studio has no recorded opening-hours data, so temporal alignment with local demand cannot be measured. The health score is very low (0.6/10). Without published hours it is not possible to say which high-demand windows are covered, missed or inefficient. Adding clear opening hours will immediately allow comparison to city-level demand and reveal where hours match peak search times or where adjustments would be commercially useful.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
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Opening hoursChristchurch architects · 252 businesses
You are #210 for opening hours
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The next step

Your top opportunities, in one place.

These are your top 19 opportunities, from the 74 checks we run on every business. Tick any of them to see where it takes you.

01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#218of 252 Christchurch architects
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Christchurch architectsOverall · 252 businesses
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