Winners announced: 2022 Southern Architecture Awards

A surprising aluminium-clad house, a spacious hospitality facility, a technically advanced hospital and a masterfully deliberate beachside crib have all nabbed high honours on the Southern Structure Awards, held on Friday, twelfth August on the Arrowtown Athenaeum Corridor.

A complete of 17 tasks obtained a prestigious Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Southern Structure Award throughout seven classes. Six tasks additionally obtained a Resene Color Award.

Southern jury convenor, Barry Condon of Condon Scott Architects, mentioned the judges had an unimaginable number of high quality tasks that have been of an excellent calibre.

“Yearly, the NZIA awards draw collectively the perfect of Southern structure, and this 12 months was no exception. There was a really wonderful line separating winners, with a excessive degree of technical complexity and cautious consideration to element throughout tasks in all classes. From modern small mission structure — to wealthy and community-focused industrial tasks — it was very clear that the Southern area is constantly producing daring, modern designs that we may see simply sitting at a nationwide degree”.

The five-person jury visited 25 shortlisted tasks earlier than choosing the 17 winners.

See above for pictures of the shortlisted tasks, which are:

Housing

Terrace Edge by Anna-Marie Chin Architects

The architect has taken the alpine vernacular of the gable kind and given it a recent twist on this spacious house overlooking Lake Hayes. The plan creates separate areas for a household of three adults, related by corridors that show a artistic appreciation for materiality and design. Whereas the alpine panorama performs a transparent position within the materials alternatives, the supply is pleasantly sudden, with a mixture of schist, steel, glazing and timber making a refined textural expertise inside and out.

Crown Vary Retreat by Meeting Architects

Superbly austere, standing sentinel within the harsh alpine local weather, this household house with its minimal palette of uncooked supplies exudes heat and texture. Uneven patterns within the domestically sourced rammed earth partitions distinction with a exact concrete datum, with altering ranges that comply with the landform. Supplies move seamlessly from inside to exterior, making a restrained, concise, and masterfully executed architectural kind.

Cliffs Street Home by bell + co structure and Saunders Structure

An austere aluminium exterior, unrelenting in its formal expression, comprises a revelatory inside, tuned to the proprietor’s visible wit in an equally uncompromising manner. The mixture of the 2 creates a dualistic delight, demonstrating the architectural rewards of collaboration with a extremely expert consumer. Each floor, color and materials selection is deliberate, actual, stunning and inspiring.

Resene Color Award:

The inside of this home is a masterclass in color, with pleasant and sudden mixtures all through. Colors are expressed in a three-dimensional manner, wrapping from flooring to partitions and furnishings in daring blocks. The palette adjustments with the variation in ground degree. The result’s shiny, courageous, and completely pitched.

Decrease Shotover Home by Bureaux

Hearty exterior supplies give this hill-hugging, river-gazing home a way of sturdy permanence, accentuated by a tussocked roof. Contained in the architects have achieved a stability of consolation and luxurious, with a free-flowing ground plan and a collection of creature comforts. A harmonious materials palette — chosen for richness, heat and texture — is minimised to permit for the expression and celebration of pure traits. Timeless and strong, this can be a home to be appreciated by future generations.

Jack’s Level Retreat by Mason & Wales Architects

A stone fortification from afar, this house sits embedded in its panorama as a playful allusion to an imaginary historical past. A fastidiously organized sequence of areas creates connection in a casual manner, with a vernacular method to planning that means a constructing that has developed slowly over time. The textural great thing about Glenorchy stone, used predominantly all through, gives a sculptural high quality and floor richness that evokes the native panorama. The home achieves grandeur with out grandiosity.

Ross Campion Home by Rafe Maclean Architects

Cleverly shaped for the actions of a younger household on a good website and finances, this house is an train in exceptionally well-considered spatial planning and dynamic design. Not one sq. metre is wasted right here, with pocketed play areas, purposeful areas, and surprisingly spacious bedrooms. Most notably, a roof deck doubles the home’s usable house and gives sudden lake views over the neighbouring roofs. Folded from deep crimson corrugated metal, the shape takes on a playful aesthetic that’s in line with the creativity inherent in its design.

Resene Color Award:

With a nod to the basic barn, this Scoria-red house is a welcome sight in a good Wanaka subdivision. Wrapping across the roof and partitions, the colored corrugate offers the house a legible architectural kind, whereas internally, distinction is supplied by inexperienced doorways and ply partitions, leading to a quintessential DOC-hut aesthetic.

Winery Home by RTA Studio

A home configured as a few sheds, is as humble as an apple crate. Organised across the easy home wants of a sublime bachelor, one shed is for residing and one is for sleeping. This readability of objective disguises the intelligence and talent of its meeting. Nice care has been taken to realize a wealthy spatial high quality in a manner that seems matter of reality and sensible. A easy materials palette is widely known. The house sits properly in dialogue with its productive rural panorama.

Speargrass Home by Sumich Chaplin Architects

This house for a younger household gives enjoyment of its variations of and departures from, a well-recognized typology. The gabled type of the primary residing house is fastidiously articulated with sudden apertures to answer views and to sunlight. The home has an enthralling meandering high quality because it winds round a courtyard backyard. Texturally wealthy and with good scale, the structure creates a welcoming shelter inside a grand panorama.

Industrial Structure

Vacation Inn Queenstown Remarkables Park by Plus Structure

An train in thought-about planning, the architects have created multi-use areas on this Frankton resort which might be comfy and welcoming in scale. The transfer to activate the foyer by offering public road entry to the bar and restaurant offers the resort a vibrant ambiance. That is accentuated by residential-style, cohesive inside design, with pops of daring color derived from the encircling panorama, and an exterior façade that’s crisp and respectful of the mountains past.

Hospitality

EBB-DUNEDIN by Gary Todd Structure

Artwork and structure mix on this distinctive idea resort. A daring transfer from the architects inverts the standard atrium and foyer areas, really bringing the skin in and offering inexperienced areas and copious pure gentle. Refined metalwork detailing, artwork gallery walkways and intelligent pockets of landscaping contribute to an undeniably particular expertise for friends. A artistic resolution for privateness sees a large-scale paintings on the glazed curtain partitions rework the constructing into a sublime set up for downtown Dunedin.

Resene Color Award:

A façade of curtain glass paintings – printed panels in shades of blue and gray – blur the silhouettes inside the resort. Dramatic inexperienced for the inside atrium partitions grounds the centre. As your eye follows the pure greenery rising upwards, we see a powerful black and white contrasting palette, good for showcasing native artwork.

Public Structure

Southern Cross Central Lakes Hospital by Warren and Mahoney Architects

A beneficiant and humane spirit drives this healthcare mission. A technically advanced constructing that’s extremely purposeful and environment friendly has been delivered. However what stands out is the care that has been paid to the person expertise all through, elevating the mission above the utilitarian norm. The nice and cozy, summary formal language of the outside has set a helpful precedent for its newly established neighbourhood.

Resene Color Award:

A delicate color palette of sentimental pure tones has been employed to offer a way calm, counteracting the medical norm of healthcare interiors. This consideration to color and materiality extends all through the constructing, encompassing entry, theatre and restoration areas. Color has been used as an energetic agent to help wellbeing.

Planning and City Design

Vacation Inn Specific & Suites Queenstown by McAuliffe Stevens

Utilising a intelligent planning technique, this transformation of a residential metropolis block seeks to deal with the perennial Queenstown situation of in search of northern gentle while addressing a sloping website with many planning and infrastructure constraints. Regardless of altering planning parameters and a significant arterial route shifting from the west to the japanese aspect of the block over the mission’s lifetime, the constructing seamlessly offers with diverse road scales, that are cleverly built-in into a bigger city framework and shaped round a central courtyard house.

Training

Te Kura Pakihi – Otago Enterprise Faculty by Mason & Wales Architects

From what was as soon as an enclosed and problematic house, comes this light-filled, activated campus. Via format and transformative reuse of the present construction, the architects have created a constructing that invitations all college students in and brings workers out of their workplaces — encouraging collaboration and communication and bringing a way of promise to its now-bustling areas. In a hero transfer — one which makes you surprise why it was ever completely different — the rear wall is opened up with glazing for views over the canal, lending a way of place.

Richard Hudson Kindergarten by McCoy and Wixon Architects

Greeted with small-scale hugs, the jury appreciated the thought-about association of areas on this Dunedin kindergarten. Planning brings pure gentle into the inside areas and accentuates move of motion for the youngsters who spend their time right here, with workers services located for the delicate however important view of the playground. Sheltered fringe house creates alternatives for outside play in antagonistic climate, and supplies are suitably chosen for visible heat, robustness and longevity.

Small Undertaking Structure

Karitane Crib by First Mild Studio

This new iteration of a well-loved beachside crib gives house for all of the household — comfortably sleeping as much as fourteen in a small footprint. The architects have taken the thought of out of doors residing to a brand new degree, with the central kitchen and eating zone created as a malleable extension to the deck areas on both aspect. Pleasant design particulars within the type of lighting and color parts give this house its personal persona. Intelligent use of house sees bedrooms reworked into residing rooms, and window seats used as each beds and indoor/outside seating, leading to a dynamic and family-focused vacation house.

Resene Color Award:

Delicate color is injected into the interiors of this multi-tasking, extended-family-friendly seaside crib by means of painted doorways and partitions, customized panels and fabric materials. Coded to reference the course of the solar and the ocean, parts of burnt orange, daring yellow, forest inexperienced and gray blue deliver distinction and heat to the timber-lined rooms.

The Coast Home by Stacey Farrell Architect

With a recent twist, this small home on the backside of the world is an train in creativity and integrity. Designed to be unassuming, the entranceway is bookended by two angled storage areas, main into a house that’s devoted to cosy moments and pleasure of the outside. Care is taken to minimise the impression on the encircling surroundings with a small footprint and spectacular thermal efficiency. Together with a naturally wealthy color palette, creatively budget-friendly supplies similar to uncovered SIPS panels and steelwork highlights contribute to the cosy ambiance of this escape pad.

Resene Color Award:

The wealthy inside texture is additional enlivened by a palette of colors — black, brown, gold, and inexperienced, which all unite to create an intimate crib expertise.

Emerald Bluffs Visitor Home by RTA Studio

A spectacular but modest intervention on the panorama. The architect supplied a plan with knowledgeable manipulation of small areas, allowances for daylight, and a considerate use of supplies. Heavyweight masonry partitions and detailing anchor the shape, and supply privateness from the primary home, which then offers approach to a glass façade that opens as much as the bush and blurs the traces of inside to exterior. The mission kindles a sense of being on a retreat after which realising you possibly can dwell this fashion all 12 months round.

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