Winners announced: 2022 Waikato & Bay of Plenty Architecture Awards

A spaceship on a seaside, a household retreat and a transferring placement of whakairo (carvings) had been simply a number of the nice structure initiatives awarded on the Waikato & Bay of Lots structure awards tonight.

Nineteen initiatives throughout seven classes acquired a Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects award, and one additionally scooped up a Resene Color Award.

Awards convenor, Paul Raven of Shelter Architects, stated the jury had been impressed by each finalist due to absolutely the love of what every architectural observe had created, the dedication to the career and their actual focus.

“Each challenge that we visited was a spotlight, each single one. The delight that we had simply in strolling up into a few of these initiatives and pondering ‘heck, that is superb.”

See above for photographs of the shortlisted initiatives, which are:

Housing

Park Vue by Brendon Gordon Architects

Park Vue is a two-storey vacation residence with a mannered response to the encircling neighbourhood. It has a cleverly modelled ‘H’-shaped footprint which permits for good private and non-private area separation, whereas additionally maximising views of Whangamatā. The well-appointed, snug inside is completed with a refined but strong palette of supplies that embody sarked cedar ceilings and timber detailing, in addition to delicate industrial finishes. Each restful and full of life, this can be a home of many moods and reveals how a number of generations can simply cohabitate in a vacation residence.

View Level by Structure Bureau

Becoming simply on a sloping coastal web site with views of Raglan Harbour, Rangitahi Peninsula, and Mt Karioi past, the dwelling areas and personal rooms of this vacation residence are correctly positioned to embrace its lovely surrounds. On both aspect of a central dwelling area that’s heat, sturdy and visually interesting, are two separate decks which imply purchasers can benefit from the open air whereas being sheltered from the wind and rain of the west coast. The architects’ considerate use of sturdy exterior supplies that won’t corrode or require fixed maintenance makes this a straightforward and enjoyable residence away from residence that may be loved with out fear.

Quantity 22 by Brendon Gordon Architects

This three-storey house is fastidiously layered to take advantage of the expansive views. Web site constraints helped to tell a protracted linear home that captures gorgeous views at one finish and supplies privateness from the neighbours on the different. An open plan, pure varieties and seaside connections are perfect for entertaining household and pals. The architects’ consideration to element, intelligent selection of supplies like cedar cladding stained to match the dune vegetation color, in-situ board type concrete with horizontal detailing, and the unimaginable ocean view make this residence a delight to expertise.

Aigéan, Opito Bay by Bull O’Sullivan Structure

From a distance, this coastal seaside residence resembles a UFO nestled within the Coromandel foreshore. On nearer inspection, this zinc armadillo-clad seaside house is a pleasant juxtaposition of crisp angles contrasted with the plush, undulating beachscape. The house’s inside utilises a spare color pallet, fibrous plaster panels and a gloriette ground. Areas are organised like cabins, with sleeping quarters, generously sized dwelling areas and a kitchen space that gives a year-round sense of exhilaration and enjoyable for multigenerational dwelling. 

Waterhouse Household Dwelling by Bull O’Sullivan Structure

A steep, sloping, city web site hides the shock of this well-designed, practical, and nurturing household residence. Tall cedar shutters all through create cross air flow, whereas double doorways on the decrease ranges are mixed with the dramatic sloped roof permitting for passive air flow. The proprietor designed and constructed parts of the home himself, studying as he went. His ardour for the challenge is mirrored on this ensuing work of love.

Resene Color Award:

A enjoyable palette of colors and intelligent materials selections comparable to pure cork flooring and chocolate-toned plywood partitions make this home welcoming and a superbly joyful place to develop up.

MV Home by Cate Creemers

A considerate array of areas wrap round a half hexagon dwelling space that completely captures the view. Pre-cast concrete partitions host massive fashionable artwork in a house wealthy with spatial metaphors. This home is pleasant, cosy, and wealthy with journey, a testomony to the need of the consumer and the ability of their architect.

Twin Points by Edwards White Architects

Twin Points presents a intelligent architectural answer to a constrained constructing envelope, a steep web site, proximity to neighbours, and river views. The expansive entry corridor affords a welcoming passage via to a compact built-in dwelling plan the place a surprising view of the Waikato River (awa) is framed by the dual gabled roof type. The architects have paid nice consideration to element, with skylights and home windows well positioned to create a really perfect steadiness of privateness and reference to the skin, to embrace the awa from each angle.

Sisters Sanctuary by Edwards White Architects

Set on the tranquil Rangitahi Peninsula, the Sisters Sanctuary instils a way of calm, magnificence, and solidarity all through. The house is a thought-about response to the social dynamic of the creating avenue to the west and the expansive inlet views to the east. Two interlocking varieties are expressed from the road, compositionally gentle horizontal timber cladding and screening towards the extra grounded masonry. A protecting cloak of cedar attracts one between the 2 varieties into the modestly scaled inside. Wealthy walnut tones, paired with a collection of travertine, venetian plastered render and gentle sandy greys, work in concord collectively and type an inviting area to witness the ebb and circulation of the tide and observe the altering gentle all through the day.

Fillmore Home by Evelyn McNamara Structure

Designed as a household vacation retreat, Fillmore Home is nestled into the bottom of a local bush clad hill in Okawa Bay, Lake Rotoiti. With its clear, rectangular type, the constructing’s uncooked and strong textures body the lake views — it sits fantastically within the native bush, exuding a way of belonging and permanence. The inside is moody and welcoming, complemented by heat timber tones, darkish metal, and well-considered lighting. Seamless indoor-outdoor circulation on the decrease degree incorporates a beneficiant overhang and sunken firepit. These parts present sheltered gathering areas year-round and encourage social interactions with neighbours strolling the fenceless lakefront yard.

Acacia Bay Gables Home by Fraser Cameron Architects

Overlooking Lake Taupo, the darkish exterior gables of this inter-generational residence seem humble and unassuming. The inside delights the senses, with the shape echoed inside and is mixed with a wealthy materials palette, well-considered lighting and distinctive detailing and craftsmanship. Dwelling and most important bed room wings are clearly articulated and are differentiated via two modes of inside finishes. Uncooked, strong, and tactile dwelling areas distinction luminous painted surfaces within the bedrooms. Darkish lots of shuttered concrete anchor hovering timber ceilings in dwelling areas whereas metal framed glazed sliders present flexibility to the enclosure of rooms. Acacia Bay Gables Home is a house that may endure. A house that embraces the distinctive qualities of every materials and supplies inviting and uplifting areas appropriate for a number of modes of household life.

Casper’s Home by Glamuzina Architects and Dessein Parke in affiliation

Settled into the steep hillside beneath Mount Paku, this small vacation residence challenges the thought of what a seaside home needs to be in our consumer-driven world. This experimental vacation residence utilises the traditional Kiwi bach vernacular and quantity 8 wire mentality. Its cleverly articulated 92-sqm footprint accommodates a number of small areas which delight as they open out to the ocean, earth and sky. The 2 steeply pitched volumes and floating mezzanine allow this tent-like residence to embrace the prolonged views and surf past. Casper’s Home is a snapshot and reminder of a time when constructing was extra experimental and life maybe extra easy. Development challenges with structural insulated panels and corrugated translucent sheets had been overcome, leading to a easy elegant rainscreen, reminding us that much less is extra.

Waimataruru by Pac Studio and Kristina Pickford Design in affiliation

A single sloping roof type on the gorgeous coromandel coast follows the slope of the land. Weathered timbers and Shou Sugi Ban cladding enclose casual and unique areas that join with the outside and one another in pleasant and intriguing methods. Views are masterfully curated via timber joinery, with artwork and artifacts, crafted metal and stone, and color from gentle plaster finishes. This house is a complicated casual constructing, tuned completely to the positioning and its house owners, and is environmentally attentive to perfection.

Inside Structure

EWA Studio by Edwards White Architects

Edwards White Architects remodeled this closely partitioned area into a light-weight and interesting studio that expresses the agency’s artistic experience and encourages a collaborative tradition. Inherent qualities of the prevailing concrete construction are embraced whereas bespoke and fantastically crafted interventions create a refined relationship between previous and new. The format includes a central white pod framing assembly areas and break-out rooms that divide the kitchen and workstations. The light curves and vertical battened rhythm encourage fluidity between areas which is strengthened via use of translucent drapes, free furnishings, and steel screening; softly outlined areas that permit flexibility for present and future occupants. Heat timber and pure tones praise the uncooked, monochromatic palette and create a extremely tactile surroundings that uplifts the human spirit.

Business Structure

Profile Group Hautapu Facility by Jasmax

Structure has prevailed within the face of an excessive transient that required a constructing of epic proportions delivered to a good program. Stringent environmental, financial and social calls for have been exceeded all through. The architects have added design experience to this grand scale typology, with readability of type and extremely practical planning. The human scale touches are excellent.

Public Structure

St Johns Church by DCA Architects of Transformation

The open and interesting design of this modest and unimposing brick constructing holds its personal in a humble surroundings. Meant to be inclusive of all denominations, St Johns Church is a delicate reinterpretation of how non secular beliefs can reside and worship in a typical area. In a nod to the religious, rays of sunshine penetrate the auditorium via perforated exterior bricks, and artworks created in collaboration with mana whenua and the Rarotongan and Tokelauan communities adorn the inside. Whether or not to worship or just search consolation and relaxation, this can be a constructing that embraces its communities.

Schooling

Te Puna Kindergarten by MOD Structure

This joyful kindergarten is made up of two robust constructing varieties that present a transparent and assured entry from a busy automotive park. Its modern shed-like look provides a nod to its rural neighbours. Inside, beneficiant, light-filled areas comprise a sociable and welcoming studying surroundings that’s simply navigated at play time and rush hour by small individuals, lecturers, and caregivers. Te Puna Kindergarten is an asset to future generations making a sensible and playful area for tamariki that delights and evokes. 

Small Challenge Structure

Te Whare Mauri ō Tānewhirinaki – The Dwelling Essence of Tānewhirinaki by Anthony Hoete

Te Whare Mauri ō Tānewhirinaki was designed to briefly stand over 100 whakairo (carvings) which are the tipuna (ancestors) and mauri (life drive) of the previous Ngāti Ira ancestral home Tānewhirinaki. The cautious and precise placement of those valuable carvings, inside a light-weight stuffed construction, facilitated bringing the hapū collectively for his or her first wānanga in a era. In awe of their environment, the hapū had been impressed and people who had been in attendance agreed to pursue choices for reconstruction of Tānewhirinaki.

            Tānewhirinaki whakamaua te titiro ki Whakaari te ao tawhito.

            Irapuaia kōkiri ki te rāwhiti tokotū te ao hou.

Just like the Parthenon and its marble sculptures, Tānewhirinaki will someday home these whakairo once more, because of this set up, its curation, the hapū and their architect.

Enduring Structure

L Block Lecture Theatres -The College of Waikato Te Whare Wananga o Waikato (1978) by Smith, Grant and Associates (architect Rod Smith)

The L Block lecture theatres’ daring and brutal design have supplied a strong educating surroundings for the college and college students of Waikato College. Positioned between the campus library and the scholar village, L Block has 5 separate lecture theatres all with tiered seating. This constructing has stood the check of time, with three main entry methods and all theatres served by a big widespread lobby cut up over two ranges. Masterful and timeless.

Te Whare – Lake Tarawera (1986) by Structure Aotearoa (architect Fred Stevens)

Te Whare is the fruits of 1 architect’s 36-year journey to create an area that embodies the soul, spirit and lifetime of sense of place. The place is Lake Tarawera and Te Whare is that journey. This home has repeatedly grown and tailored to suit whānau, pals and work. Set throughout the bush panorama, areas draw within the lake and mountain as they traverse the positioning and supply delight at every flip. Harking back to NZ hero structure of the 70s, te Whare displays on a colonial typology and modern home Māori structure. te Whare’s journey is ongoing and can unravel extra tales as time passes.

The NZIA Native Awards 2022 programme is supported by Resene and APL.