Winners introduced: 2024 New Zealand Structure Awards

This yr’s New Zealand Structure Awards jury was headed by Caro Robertson, principal of Spacecraft Architects. Robertson was joined by Ari Stevens of Athfield Architects, Julie Stout of Mitchell Stout Dodd and visitor worldwide juror Patrick Kennedy of Kennedy Nolan in Melbourne, Australia. The jury visited 48 shortlisted initiatives throughout 12 classes throughout late August and early September.

Within the official convenor’s message, Robertson acknowledges the collaborative experience that’s required to see structure of this calibre by way of to completion: “We had been in a position to see each into the buildings and into the efforts and intentions behind them. Reaching for the elegant in structure depends on a coordinated workforce; a shopper who’s in on the architectural magic; and a constructing workforce that may comply with that magic by way of. It turned clear on our tour that in each venture the place the structure was levelled up, the work of proficient architects was supported and realised by the relationships that introduced the venture to life.”

A element of most of the initiatives visited by this yr’s jury was the adaptive reuse of pre-existing buildings. “Most of the shortlisted initiatives had the added complexity of beginning out with an current constructing. We had been impressed by what number of architects took this embodied carbon in hand, utilizing it creatively for a completely completely different architectural expression to spring out of,” Robertson provides.

This theme of adaptive reuse stems from a wider deal with sustainability amongst Kiwi architects, with Robertson commenting on the jury’s expertise of those buildings: “Alongside decreasing carbon and toxins in buildings, comes house that feels nicely to be in. Operational sustainability goes hand in hand with good siting selections, pure air flow and planting methods for floor water administration that had been a delight to expertise.”

The total convenor’s message, successful initiatives and citations can be found in print throughout the particular 2024 New Zealand Structure Awards version of Structure NZ, accessible to buy on-line from 23 November 2024.

View all the successful initiatives within the slideshow above, and skim on for the jury citations. The named awards may be seen by clicking the person hyperlinks beneath.

HOUSING:

Wānaka S.Ok.I Home by Roberts Grey Architects

The non-public home has grow to be a contentious class in structure as we grapple with problems with sustainability, density and housing safety. In response, Roberts Grey has approached this constructing sort with propositions that reach architectural considering. There may be evident hypothesis about how cussed vernaculars could be challenged and a suggestion of recent approaches to materiality, massing, privateness and transparency and stability of constructed type to panorama.

This meticulously detailed and experientially stunning home reveals spectacular technical capacity and a finely wrought aesthetic judgement. Importantly, it additionally demonstrates architectural considering on this younger apply that would result in a greater urbanism.

Ravenscar Home by Patterson Associates

Judges mentioned: “A venture rising from destruction, Ravenscar is the beneficiant gifting by Jim and Susan Wakefield of their artwork and artefact assortment to the individuals of Ōtautahi Christchurch. Following the lack of their residence to the earthquakes, the couple determined to not rebuild on the location, however fee a brand new home/museum within the central metropolis. Granite from their former residence, stone donated from the neighbouring Arts Centre and rubble from different cherished buildings have been integrated into the precast panels of this constructing.

Ravenscar is a superbly detailed meeting of 4 pavilions round a central impluvium. As a chunk of structure, it bridges many readings – is it a home or is it a panorama? With a way of intrigue in its fortified containment, inside worlds and glazed hyperlinks open to the encompassing backyard. Ravenscar is a brand new tackle the lineage of English influences within the metropolis’s cultural precinct.”

Gonville Pool Home by Patchwork Structure

Judges mentioned: “A distinct tackle the adaptive reuse of a public constructing, a brand new whare is built-in into the well-loved and architecturally cheerful Gonville Pool. This strategy maintains the unique characterful avenue presence, whereas offering a well-planned, considerately sited new home that artfully makes use of the defunct pool to carry a productive backyard into the centre of the programme.

An artist’s residency retrofit into the altering rooms provides to the local people’s creative stripe. The previous public pool’s infrastructure is visibly built-in into the landscaping of this enjoyable and energetic venture.”

HOUSING – MULTI UNIT

Kōtuitui Terraces, Stage 2 by Crosson Architects

Judges mentioned: “The supply of density in reasonably priced housing is a urgent concern in Aotearoa New Zealand and globally. On this difficult surroundings, Crosson Architects applies first-principles considering and creativity to make incremental adjustments which might be greater than the sum of their components.

Working with a motivated shopper, Kōtuitui Terraces takes a long-term view and imagines higher urbanism with considerate design, an knowledgeable understanding of the optimistic function of vegetation and bushes and complicated structure that’s approachable, dignified, sturdy and meticulously parsed to ship an unusual refinement.

Initiatives like this are vital as a result of they shift the needle. With the housing-development trade characterised by a inconsiderate herd mentality, this venture supplies optimistic management and high quality benchmarks.”

Hills Residences by Edwards White Architects

Judges mentioned: “This venture addresses a number of vital points dealing with up to date architects. Probably the most urgent is sustainability and probably the most environment friendly constructing is the one we don’t construct, so this adaptive re-use of a redundant industrial constructing is a superb city mannequin. Additional elevating the venture is the best way home habitation is known. A assured and complicated strategy delivers high quality dwellings able to accommodating a range of customers in snug, livable settings.

Hills Residences types a part of a wider venture by Edwards White and their shopper in celebrating and amplifying Kirikiriroa Hamilton’s qualities by way of addressing the river, densifying the neighbourhoods and stitching collectively the town’s components on and off the web site.”

HOUSING – ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS

Ridge Home by Keshaw McArthur 

Judges mentioned: “Restrained and stylish, this intelligent response makes the perfect of a decent inner-city web site. The gradual stepping of ranges to maximise your entire web site as residing areas, the gradual reveal of views to Maungawhau (Mount Eden) and the episodic openings to the perimeters give this very managed linear addition the sensation of respiration out and in. The sculptural use of roof lights and a crisp materials palette create a relaxed oasis for household life.”

INTERIOR

Te Tihi – Aurecon Auckland by Warren and Mahoney Architects

Judges mentioned: “Te Tihi confidently positions itself throughout the cultural and bodily panorama of Ngāti Whatua Ōrakei. Intensive mana mapping has knowledgeable a extremely efficient collaboration with mana whenua, architect and the shopper’s cultural technique workforce He Rautaki Māori.

Relaxed however agile planning, a pure palette with heat timber textures and ample planting all contribute to a way of sanctuary inside a bustling workspace. The deconstructed waka taurapa (waka stern) central stair adorned with aukaha waka binding sample references the engineering focus of this office and asserts the structure’s aspiration to facilitate and navigate the convergence of relationships, neighborhood and place.

By collaborative design and storytelling, Te Tihi fosters an surroundings grounded in respect for the land and folks and is an completed instance of culturally responsive inside structure.”

COMMERCIAL

Tuhiraki – AgResearch Lincoln Facility by Architectus and Lab-works Structure

Judges mentioned: “These elegant crimson sheds sit collectively comfortably within the rural panorama but are something however agricultural of their sophistication. Tuhiraki fosters synergy with Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki Lincoln College and the broader Canterbury area, whereas embracing the mana whenua narratives. Tuhiraki shifts the dial for a office, displaying us a path to a light-weight, shiny and sustainable collaborative future targeted on wellbeing.

Meticulously rational planning contributes to a way of easy wayfinding and the constructing’s inhabitants are handled to glare-free views and daylight in all instructions. The buildings are naturally ventilated, and the environment friendly use of domestically sourced supplies and mass timber ship a 78 p.c discount in carbon footprint, in comparison with historically constructed buildings. A compelling mannequin for stunning, sustainable industrial structure.”

Kā Uri, Awanui by Glamuzina Architects

Judges mentioned: “A pleasant composition of shadow, translucency and texture, this reimagining of three related sheds explores the pure atmospheric qualities potential in structure. Past the folded, dappled entry is an artwork and media gallery relaying the kōrero (narratives) of Ngāti Kuri, who introduced this venture into being.

The continuation of translucency right into a high-level spatially built-in projection floor permits for an immersive media expertise. Ascending the spiral stair, carved from a single kauri trunk in 1994 and inserted into the brand new constructing material, poetically brings manuhiri (friends) to a window to watch the carving workshop past – the connection is visceral.

Ceaselessly internet hosting busloads of vacationers on their method up Te Tai Tokerau Northland, the toilet services are a spatial murals, testomony to shut collaboration between Glamuzina and multidisciplinary artists Haumi.”

Deloitte Centre – Te Kaha by Warren and Mahoney Architects

Judges mentioned: “Re-making an current constructing higher than new is not any imply feat, and the Deloitte Centre is a phenomenal contribution to the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland skyline. The artistry of composition is achieved by variation in depth vertically throughout the façade. That is achieved in a delightfully easy method by reversing the curtain wall on the decrease part and expressing the mullions externally in gold. A broader masterplan collects companies at Industrial Bay, releasing up the waterfront constructing. Coated walkways result in adjoining workplace towers plugging this constructing into its neighbours. Paintings by Pāora Puru additional elevates the constructing, fading out and in, telling tales of volcanic creation within the rohe (area). Installations discover aukaha (binding), set in movement by collaboration with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.”

EDUCATION

The Pā by Architectus, Jasmax and DesignTRIBE

Judges mentioned: “In fixing a posh transient to deal with a dispersed campus structure, The Pā’s venture workforce has introduced 4 massive services collectively beneath one roof and created a brand new circulation backbone to carry order to the campus. The guiding ideas of manākitanga and inclusiveness are central to the venture’s design ethos, and that is demonstrated within the heat and generosity of its many gathering areas. As a backdrop, a heroic structural system of glulam beams pushes the boundaries of this know-how to provide the venture its superior tectonic power.”

College of Auckland B201 Constructing by Jasmax

Judges mentioned: “B201 has sought to raise the mana of Waipapa Marae and Fale Pasifika, connecting them confidently into the center of the campus. A extremely efficient collaboration between Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Waipapa Taumata Rau College of Auckland and multidisciplinary artists Haumi is clear within the built-in art work that seems to prioritise dialogue with place in its acknowledgement of whenua, mana whenua, marae and fale.

With exemplary execution of long-pondered masterplan strikes, the venture masterfully repurposes a troublesome brutalist construction to remodel the cultural precinct, reaching out to attach throughout and beneath Symonds Avenue into the educational coronary heart of the college. In synergy with established avenue bushes, the mesmerising zig-zagging aramoana type of the atrium’s hybrid timber roof construction works impossibly laborious to covertly present mild, shade, air flow and acoustic remedy. B201 has acquired certainly one of Aotearoa’s highest-ever Greenstar rankings and its low-carbon design and adaptive reuse aspire to set new benchmarks for sustainable instructional environments.”

Pā Reo Campus by Tennent Brown Architects

Judges mentioned: “A residing constructing, Pā Reo speaks superbly of collaboration between shopper and architect. The whare reside and breathe Māoritanga – hīkoia te kōrero (stroll the discuss). Without having for utilized cultural narrative, Pā Reo expresses kaitiakitanga in a chic, useful, quiet method. Crisply put collectively, the technical ability and exhaustive analysis carry the imaginative and prescient of a dedicated shopper group to an consequence that may be a kāpehu whetū (star compass) for us all as we wrestle to carry structure and constructing into line with respect for Papatūānuku. It’s heartening to expertise a heat, snug, open constructing that feels good to be in and restores ecological wellness to its quick surroundings.”

PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN

MADE by Edwards White Architects

Judges mentioned: “This venture articulately connects a bit of Kirikiriroa Hamilton’s Victoria Avenue by way of an current constructing to the Waikato te Awa (Waikato River) waterfront. The structure attracts individuals by way of the established shopfront by means of intelligent use of large-scale mesh and textual content, which function a wayfinding language throughout a posh web site and spotlight the city material. The architects have targeted consideration on current optimistic spatial experiences, whereas including heat and texture within the fitout. It was a daring transfer to maintain outdated aesthetic points, however the architects have taken this in hand – efficiently making full use of the prevailing constructing material with new components of smoke-and-mirrors creativity, bringing a social place to life.”

Te Āhuru Mōwai Imaginative and prescient Framework by Isthmus Group

Judges mentioned: “This collaborative venture has produced an exemplary mannequin of deal with high quality residing environments for communities and whenua. The unique activity for Te Āhuru Mōwai was to rebuild social housing models. Nonetheless, by taking a broader and long-term view of understanding and fascinating with the native individuals, locations and ecologies, the workforce has leveraged an consequence that goals to heal the previous and advance future wellbeing for the world. The Imaginative and prescient Framework paperwork a powerful strategy of listening, participating and embracing advanced social conditions with compassion, knowledge gathering and case research to develop key concepts and massive strikes. The result’s a wealthy and thrilling useful resource, a residing doc for future growth.”

PUBLIC

Te Taumata o Kupe Nuku by TOA Architects

Judges mentioned: “A dynamic expression of Kupe’s voyaging and navigation, Te Taumata o Kupe Nuku types a brand new point of interest for the marae of Hokianga hapū Te Māhurehure, and a platform from which to share and venture historic mātauranga (conventional information). TOA labored carefully with Te Māhurehure to create a wide-reaching masterplan for this advanced web site, realising a collective imaginative and prescient with Te Taumata o Kupe at its coronary heart. A transparent framework for future growth has been initiated, together with provision for community-focused service suppliers and a lately accomplished papakāinga. Te Taumata o Kupe Nuku has considerably enriched the neighborhood material, honouring its previous whereas shaping its future. This award acknowledges the extraordinary contribution of a design that has grown out of, and for, the neighborhood it serves.”

HERITAGE

Dunedin Railway Station Restoration by Salmond Reed Architects

Judges mentioned: “Dunedin Railway Station tells a narrative of prosperity, ambition and optimism, a grand public constructing that anticipated the expansion of Ōtepoti Dunedin and a rustic related by a first-class rail system. Heritage buildings resembling these are massively costly to protect and keep and maybe the best success of this venture is involving native makers and preserving and creating constructing crafts resembling stone masonry, detailed metalwork and carpentry, which may in any other case disappear. It’s clear that the work is a superb supply of native satisfaction. This venture is pragmatic in the perfect sense, balancing best-practice heritage ideas with finely balanced judgement and delicate prioritising.”

Whare Mīmīrū by Dr Anthony Hōete and Dr Jeremy Treadwell, in affiliation

Judges mentioned: “This venture is an amplification. A seismic change actually in addition to materially. A deep investigation into Aotearoa’s constructed heritage and building science, this ongoing venture reminds us of who we have now been and provides us context for who we can be. The place heritage may be thought of the method of fortifying our narratives, Mīmirū reminds us that there isn’t a distinction between engineering and structure in Māoritanga. Offering us with a brand new chance for wide-span carbon-neutral structural frames that we desperately want, Mīmirū lights one other path to environmentally respectful constructing, powerfully bringing ancestral mātauranga (conventional information) into the current.”

INTERNATIONAL

Sir Edmund Hillary Customer Centre by Pearson & Associates Architects

Judges mentioned: “The brand new customer’s centre in Khumjung Village is a singular cultural venture and worldwide collaboration that celebrates the connection between the Sherpa First Nations’ individuals and the Himalayan Belief established 70 years in the past by Sir Edmund Hillary. A small aluminium faculty hut was rebuilt, and its inside is now a richly adorned and informative show. The colorful, multi-layered expertise produced by Rick Pearson and his workforce, and the native Sherpa neighborhood, craftspeople and artists, is visually participating for guests and locals alike. This award additionally applauds the sheer effort, tenacity and logistical expertise required to grasp the venture. The dedication and fervour to beat quite a few hurdles in creating the centre shine by way of.”

SMALL PROJECT

Whare Mīmīrū by Dr Anthony Hōete and Dr Jeremy Treadwell, in affiliation

Judges mentioned: “Mīmirū is probably the most radical of the initiatives bringing mātauranga into architectural apply that the rōpū has encountered. Shut remark of constructing components, structural dynamics and fixing factors has been clearly drawn out, revealing Mīmiro – the camber and post-tensioning construction, developed for waka hourua (ocean-going canoes) and adjusted to the surroundings of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Mīmirū describes the elegant authentic structure of Māoritanga and the facility of pure architectural considering to speak. The fashions and video developed articulate the discoveries in a readily accessible method.”

St Hilda’s Church Renovation by First Gentle Studio

Judges mentioned: “This pleasant transformation of a small neighborhood church exhibits what may be achieved with huge creativeness and a collaborative spirit. St Hilda’s was in-built 1910 as a timber construction with an aspirational brick entrance to the road. When confronted with earthquake-strengthening the brick façade, the congregation and First Gentle Studio undertook the courageous transfer to demolish it and prolong and open the church to the road with a glazed, laminated-timber arched bay window.

St Hilda’s feels totally up to date and welcoming by day and evening, due to a superbly designed, folded patterned steel display screen that modulates privateness and light-weight with a magical impact inside and out.”

Seaside Hut by SGA – Strachan Group Architects

Judges mentioned: “This venture is a curation of the bach expertise into simply sufficient – a thoughtfully wrought shelter from which to ponder the fantastic surroundings of Aotearoa New Zealand. Seaside Hut celebrates being in our coastal panorama in a quiet, modest method. Architecturally tuned to climate forces, the wise and well-proportioned shading components and openings average and prolong the home expertise of the tiny areas. Tucking in storage in pleasant and wise methods, this venture is a mannequin for residing calmly (at the least on vacation!).”

ENDURING

Cathedral Nave | Holy Trinity Cathedral Auckland (1995) by Professor Richard Toy

Judges mentioned: “Within the late Eighties, Richard Toy’s proposal to shift Benjamin Mountfort’s timber St Mary’s Church throughout Parnell Highway and create a hovering new nave to abut the enclosed brick chancel was not with out controversy. Toy’s authentic scheme had a bell tower and buildings alongside Parnell Highway to type a hilltop village sq.. None of that was constructed, nonetheless, permitting the brand new Holy Trinity Cathedral’s heroic timber folded-plate roof to soar clear on the highest of Parnell Rise, with its welcoming gesture again to the town. Inside, the massive roof seems to drift free as low enclosing partitions are primarily glazed. The sloping ground places the deal with the altar, whereas the amount of the nave is flooded with mild and color from magnificent stained-glass home windows. At this time, the constructing freely accommodates an unlimited vary of actions, from brass-band live shows to state funerals, and is extensively utilized by completely different public teams. This public-spirited constructing encapsulates a lot of what’s great about Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.”

The New Zealand Structure Awards obtain beneficiant assist from Resene, a steadfast sponsor of this system since 1991, and APL, which commenced its sponsorship of the awards in 2021.