Auckland Stadium at Quay Park by HKS, in Auckland, New Zealand, often known as Te Tōangaroa, is one in every of 33 future initiatives which were introduced as winners of this yr’s World Structure Pageant WAFX Awards.
The stadium, a winner within the ‘Cultural Identification’ class, has been designed in collaboration with Buchan, TOA Architects and Boffa Miskell (panorama architects), with shut session with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.
Additionally of observe is the Warren and Mahoney (WAM) mission College Know-how of Sydney – Nationwide First Nations School designed in affiliation with Greenaway Architects, OCULUS and Discovering Infinity, in Sydney, Australia — additionally a WAFX Prize winner within the ‘Cultural Identification’ class — the third time in a row the New Zealand-based observe has been awarded on this class for its work throughout the ditch.
Render: Warren and Mahoney
The awarded initiatives recognise those who use design and structure to deal with main world points throughout 11 key classes, together with well being, local weather change, expertise, ethics and values.
This yr’s class winners for Ethics and Values embody a mission that explores rebuilding Gaza’s landscapes and restoring the agricultural and cultural heritage of the land. It additionally consists of the designs for a public park for a metropolis in Iran which imagines a future with no restriction to civil freedoms, offering hybrid public areas for males and for ladies.
Winners of the Energy and Justice class embody a mission in Istanbul designed across the Alevism group’s want for a authentic house within the metropolis, designed across the ritual of gathering and assembling. The Carbon and Local weather class winners embody the transformation of a disused fuel tower in Münster right into a sustainable residential tower.
The WAFX 2024 Winner Announcement comes forward of the stay WAF occasion which takes place this yr in Singapore, at Marina Bay Sands, from 6–8 November, and follows the WAF Shortlist announcement earlier this month (8 July) which celebrated the perfect new world accomplished buildings, landscapes and future structure ideas.
Paul Finch, Director of the World Structure Pageant, feedback: “This yr’s winners present how main challenges affecting individuals and environments generate responses which tackle purposeful and social issues, whereas lifting the spirits of those that will profit from inventive structure and design. We stay up for seeing these concepts offered at our Pageant in Singapore this November.”
For a full checklist of 2024 WAFX Prize winners click on right here.
View the New Zealand initiatives shortlisted for WAF and Inside 2024.
