Winners revealed: 2022 Canterbury Architecture Awards

Thirty Cantabrian buildings – each new and previous – took residence prestigious prizes on the peer-reviewed Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Native Structure Awards, held on the Christchurch City Corridor. 5 winners additionally acquired Resene Color Awards.

On the jury, convenor Jane Rooney of Architectus was joined by Jerome Buckwell of Crosson Architects, Jane Peddie of JHA, Tim Dewar of Athfield Architects and Danny Kamo of Kamo Marsh Panorama Architects. 


Rooney mentioned the judges had been spoilt for selection with an abundance of initiatives to decide on from. 

“We had been impressed with the creativity and dedication of architects, particularly given the challenges introduced by Covid over the previous two years. Fortunately, we had been capable of go to the short-listed initiatives in individual and had been capable of expertise how the areas felt.”

The judges had been additionally impressed with the extent of neighborhood engagement and spirit evident within the initiatives that concerned re-builds over 10-years because the earthquakes destroyed many interior metropolis and regional buildings. 

Housing

River Home by AW Architects

A non-public, rear part alongside the Wairarapa Stream gives a tranquil setting for this serene new residence. Two offset gabled kinds, joined by a glazed entranceway, create a connection to the stream atmosphere to the west and a backyard courtyard to the north, making certain its house owners have a number of choices for entertaining, stress-free, and gardening. The pure cedar exterior enhances the house’s riparian setting, whereas massive, slatted sliders permit house owners to close-off-from, or open-out-to their inexperienced surrounds at completely different occasions of day, or 12 months. With a excessive normal of design detailing, materials use and moments of shock inside, the architect has created a calming, calm and heat residence for his purchasers to get pleasure from.

4 Winds by Borrmeister Architects

By centering the home round landscaped courtyards, a swimming pool and gardens, this seaside residence blurs the transition between in and out, maximising its coastal location and hillside environment. All-day solar, shelter from the prevailing winds and privateness are achieved by means of the intelligent use of ranges, in depth glazing, beneficiant rooflines and sliding timber screens. Nicely-proportioned interiors and a considerate floorplan present a heat, mild residence, which responds to the purchasers’ life-style. Whitewashed macrocarpa cladding that displays the beachside atmosphere, and a vegetable backyard that opens to the road, each guarantee this new residence sits comfortably inside its residential neighbourhood.

Inexperienced Household Residence by Bull O’Sullivan Structure

The sculptural type of this copper-clad residence curls into its website, reflecting the topography of the volcanic Banks Peninsula, whereas its contoured roofline drops in direction of the water past. An intimate entranceway attracts one right into a voluminous, light-filled, open-plan dwelling area that’s warmed by the colors of its timber lining. The architects’ enter extends to customized joinery and in-built furnishings, evidencing the extent of belief of their relationship with the purchasers. This profitable collaboration between the architect, shopper and builder has resulted in a novel household residence concurrently sensible, enjoyable and with area for contemplation.

Te Rangi Pā – The Sky Fort, Stronsay Lane by Sheppard & Rout Architects

Situated on a tough, steep website and harking back to a bunker or army look-out tower, this small-footprint home is an train in space-efficient dwelling and cost-effective materiality. With exact dimensioning of kind, the architects created completely panelised exterior elevations. From its setting cradled by the Port Hills, views are gained of Christchurch’s energetic industrial and residential areas. Internally each ranges of the house are organized round a double-height area with tall home windows. The contrasting mild tones of the plywood inside present a welcome retreat.

Concrete Copper Residence by South Architects

Spatially advanced with an underlying rigour, the Concrete Copper House is a masterclass in kind, mild, and shock. Situated on a suburban website in Christchurch with an outlook in direction of a stream, this residence breaks architectural suburban ‘norms’ with its courageous sculptural kinds. The shopper wished the house to be gezellig, a Dutch phrase that may describe an area as cosy and enjoyable or signifies a common togetherness that offers a heat feeling. This home is gezellig, and way more, with its restrained palette of copper, timber, and concrete, all meticulously detailed. Concrete Copper Residence maximises the positioning’s potential, reveals {that a} sculptural kind is feasible in a suburban context, and positively impacts the wellbeing of its inhabitants and guests alike.

Driftwood Residence by South Architects

This well-crafted beachside house is a pleasant addition to the Sumner Esplanade. The quirky kinds and in depth materials palette of the constructing’s exterior open to an inside full of unusual spatial richness and materiality. A rigorous briefing course of has led to a rigorously resolved floorplan that serves the purchasers’ wants nicely. Non-public, angled viewshafts set alongside the perimeters of the constructing ship surprising ocean vistas from rooms deep throughout the website. Immaculate craftsmanship, intelligent planning, and the inclusion of personalised tales throughout the design has resulted in a home that’s intently aligned with its house owners, and clearly a pleasure to occupy.

Wildwood by Three Sixty Structure

‘Scale back, reuse, recycle’ might nicely be the motto for this fantastically crafted and well-considered sustainable residence. Demonstrating that greater isn’t higher, Wildwood caters for a rising household, whereas leaving as little influence on the planet as doable. Though going off-grid wasn’t a requirement of the temporary, lowering the influence on assets each throughout building and for the lifetime of the constructing was. SIP panels present an environment friendly construction and a heat, hermetic envelope, whereas no concrete and a minimal quantity of metal was used. A easy palette of supplies makes this residence really feel heat and welcoming, and a central void gives a focus that performs with mild and kind, compression and launch. Wildwood is a stupendous instance of how a house can present delight to its occupants and be form to the planet.

Resene Color Award winner

A intelligent and playful use of color enhances the architectural kind and displays the purchasers’ sensibilities.

Whitecaps Home by Three Sixty Structure

Perched on the cliffs of the small fishing neighborhood of Motunau, North Canterbury, Whitecaps Home is a fantastically crafted four-bedroom weekend retreat. The home maximises its website and takes benefit of its ocean views with distinctive vistas being created from all rooms. Gathered round a centralised courtyard, the plan permits for photo voltaic penetration from the north whereas maximising the panoramic views to the south. The supplies are elegant and restrained, creating a shocking easy-care weekend residence.

Hepburn’s Street Home by Warren and Mahoney Architects

Situated in a rural mid-Canterbury setting with views to Mt Somers and the foothills of the Southern Alps, this up to date residence of interconnected pavilions references the silhouette and detailing of Warren and Mahoney’s Christchurch homes of the Nineteen Sixties and is an entirely acceptable response to its website. The normal kinds and the collection of supplies that arrange a hierarchy from supporting areas in timber weatherboard to principal rooms in concrete, communicate to the meant longevity that was a part of the shopper temporary. The restraint and cautious consideration to element that has been exercised by the architect has resulted in a stupendous residence that’s wealthy in expertise.

Housing – Alterations and Additions

Seaside Barn by C Nott Architects

This in depth renovation maximises penetration of sunshine and delivers intelligent useful areas on this Sumner residence. The unique home, on a slender waterfront website, was stripped again to its core and refreshed with the addition of giant skylights, intelligent and quirky inbuilt joinery, and fantastically crafted and curated finishes. The architect collaborated intently with the inside designer shopper, offering a crisp clear backdrop and kind to help her aptitude for color and sample. The result’s a festivity of sunshine and color.

Resene Color Award winner

Color is used confidently and with exuberance, combining with crisp, white architectural parts to create a house with persona and aptitude.

Mullet Home – Main Bed room Addition by Widespread

The ‘mullet’ addition brings the occasion to the again of this 1930’s St Albans bungalow. Standing behind the primary home and related with a transitional hyperlink, the brand new addition is unashamedly up to date however respectfully complimentary. Creating a brand new bed room & ensuite retreat for the house owners, the mullet has tremendously enhanced the liveability of the home and gives new connections to the backyard. In an space the place character houses and their established gardens are being eliminated for re-development at a fee of knots, this addition engages with the size and type of the prevailing bungalow and is purposefully courteous to its neighbours.

Housing – Multi Unit

212 Cashel by AW Architects

This addition to the Ōtākaro East Body space of Christchurch CBD is a masterful show of multi-unit housing. Nicely resolved and deceptively easy kinds come collectively to attain a thought of relationship to the adjoining heritage façade to the north, Rauora Park to the west, and an current carpark constructing behind. Considerate spatial planning has achieved lofty, light-filled interiors, with providers and storage elements cleverly tucked out of view. Elegantly proportioned home windows and refined brick detailing obtain a cheap and strong consequence for this city setting. AW Architects’ consideration to element, and considerate city response, has delivered an distinctive contribution to the continued residential densification of Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Gustorob by Bull O’Sullivan Structure

On a four-hectare life-style block between the Port Hills and Canterbury Plains, two indifferent dwellings are related by a single roof. This cover enhances the connectedness of the dwelling, wherein three generations of a household share social interactions, loving recollections, and help each other by means of completely different levels of life. The house’s geometric kind, created by a curved again wall and sloping roof, generates a sensation of seize and mild launch. A hanging exterior palette of rolled Zincalume matches Gustorob into its agricultural setting, whereas inside kauri, rimu and matai timbers exude a heat, golden glow. Oriented on a strict east – west axis, permitting for passive photo voltaic heating, Gustorob’s cautious positioning on its website additionally takes benefit of an current bisecting shelter belt.

Resene Color Award winner

Color has been used so as to add depth and pleasure all through the inside.

Ōtautahi Neighborhood Housing Belief – Social Housing by South by Southeast

Changing earthquake broken council housing, this 90-home improvement cleverly balances website constraints, neighborhood wants and tenant privateness. The event consists of a variety of one- to four-bedroom houses, set throughout the 1.6-hectare website in two storey groupings. Strong brick veneer and metallic cladding is offset by smooth and vibrant landscaping, which connects courtyards, laneways, and carparks throughout a bigger website circulation, in an open, park-like setting. Placing the wants of its tenants at its coronary heart, optimistic social and environmentally sustainable outcomes of this undertaking meet the rules of manaakitanga that information the Belief’s work.

Riverbank Quarter by Stufkens + Chambers Architects

Fourteen two- and three-storey houses have been created as a part of the Riverbank Quarter mixed-use improvement in Christchurch’s CBD. To realize this exemplar of city design, the architects employed rules of constructing kind, elevation, orientation, massing, scale, articulation, and a combination or typologies and makes use of. The façade consists of ‘ad-hoc’ bricks, successfully positioned to create a play of shadow and lightweight at completely different occasions of the day, and outlooks from key dwelling areas are diversified and thought of. The result’s a chic answer to urban-edge, mixed-use improvement.

Public Structure

Kohinga St Albans Neighborhood Centre by Christchurch Metropolis Council

With a gently folded façade that pulls guests into its Colombo Avenue entrance, this much-loved neighborhood centre reinforces the Edgeware Village masterplan by additional defining the cultural centre of the neighborhood. With the cautious placement of multipurpose areas, assembly rooms, kitchen and supporting areas alongside the south aspect, the architects created an open and lightweight stuffed east-west gallery. The size and composition of the constructing reveals a real consideration of the prevailing suburban streetscape but permits it to painting its civic features. Magnificence and heat are gained all through from the outside pinus radiata cladding, inside spruce glulam beams, and cross laminated timber partitions, ceilings, and flooring. The constructing is a web zero cradle to grave embodied power constructing.

Ravenscar Home by Patterson Associates

Patterson Associates have delivered an excellent response to the beneficiant imaginative and prescient of artwork collectors Jim and Dr Susan Wakefield. Bringing collectively a posh temporary of artwork presentation, museological necessities, base isolation and carparking, this constructing displays distinctive craftsmanship and materiality all through meticulously deliberate kinds and areas. Interwoven all through is the story of the Wakefield’s earthquake broken former residence and artwork assortment. Inside areas reveal a way of quiet and calm, main the customer by means of a collection of curated ‘ghost rooms’ and displays. Volumes and areas of the unique residence present the first cues for a collection of enclosed gallery areas round a central courtyard, with glimpses to the encircling gardens and the broader metropolis past.

New Brighton Surf Lifesaving & Bathing Membership by South by Southeast and Snøhetta in affiliation

This new residence for New Zealand’s oldest surf membership gives trendy services for the membership and neighborhood whereas creating a way of belonging and connection to the atmosphere and native historical past. The challenges of the positioning location and difficult environmental circumstances have been embraced to craft a constructing with strong, sturdy supplies. The constructing engages with the general public on the seaward aspect by offering a seating platform sculpted from the stepped constructing edge. Sheltered outside areas have been included on the western aspect to offer additional areas to be loved by the membership and neighborhood.

South Brighton Surf Life Saving Membership Rebuild by Sheppard & Rout Architects

The brand new Surf Life Saving membership sits on its unique occupied website. Its angular roof line efficiently connects with the sweeping type of the South Brighton sand dunes. The bottom ground gives the practicalities of the surf membership with storage, altering rooms, coaching areas and vastly improved lifesaving entry to the seaside. The primary ground gives a well-used neighborhood hub, sheltered balconies, membership lounge and bar. The Patrol room is raised additional to offer a transparent view alongside the seaside. Rendered concrete block and cedar and hardwood cladding are completed naturally offering visible concord with the seaside atmosphere.

Te Ara Ātea by Warren and Mahoney Architects

Te Ara Ātea is a brand new anchor constructing – a library, multipurpose neighborhood area, and efficiency facility – for the long run Rolleston city centre. As the primary constructing in a wider masterplan, it wanted to take a seat confidently alone, and later combine right into a future context. The shimmering reflections created by the cladding reference the rippled floor of the braided rivers which can be distinctive to the Canterbury Plains and maintain cultural significance to mana whenua. Internally, heat timber and curved traces distinction with its rigorous exterior. Stunning areas and moments are rigorously curated all through the inside providing locations to relaxation, work and ponder. Te Ara Ātea is a well-designed, well-considered constructing that can service the various and rising neighborhood of Rolleston now and into the future.

Industrial Structure

Duncans 135 Excessive by A E Architects

Set on a slender 4.4 metre website, Duncans 135 Excessive has one façade on Excessive St and one other on St Asaph St. Previous to the earthquakes, the positioning was one finish of the Duncans Buildings: a row of sixteen two-storied heritage buildings that had been constructed in 1905. Inside this new, three-storey construct, the architects have created a wealthy vary of areas by means of compact and pleasant inside planning. From outdoors, the Excessive St façade cleverly blends with the adjoining two-storey Duncans Buildings that stay. That is achieved with considerate fenestration, and through the use of the weathered-steel trims and cornices that relate to the neighbouring buildings’ stonework. On the St Asaph St aspect, the constructing envelope hangs out over the footpath, echoing the non permanent ‘Artwork Field’ gallery area reverse.

455 Papanui Street by MAP (2016)

Positioned on a busy intersection in suburban Ōtautahi Christchurch, this distinctively curved black medical facility confidently anchors the road nook with its daring, dynamic presence. An exterior façade folds and wraps fantastically across the edges of the positioning, demonstrating that suburban industrial developments can efficiently construct to the road nook, with carparking tucked out of view across the again. From the road, intersecting curved kinds and immaculately detailed timber slats provide glimpses by means of to the intense clinic areas and circulation stairs inside. These sculptural qualities proceed all through the constructing’s vibrant inside, creating a relaxed and welcoming expertise.

Opuke Thermal Swimming pools and Spa by Sheppard & Rout Architects

Designed with sustainability in thoughts, this advanced close to Methven and near the bottom of Ōpuke (Mt Hutt), references a journey throughout the Canterbury Plains, by means of the close by Rakaia Gorge and into the mountains past. The architects have cleverly illustrated this journey with materials picks and architectural kinds that reference concepts of safety, compression, and opening: a gabion walled entranceway leads one inside, the place internally expressed roof grid of LVL beams float mountain-like above beech-clad interiors. From right here, alternate pathways result in household, adults-only, or unique luxurious spa areas, making this facility a pleasure to discover and a optimistic addition to the realm’s tourism market.

Hospitality

Doubles by Johnstone Callaghan Architects

This clear, crisp match out serves up a light-weight, brilliant re-invigoration of a central metropolis café. The architects’ collaboration with the shopper and graphic designers has resulted in intelligent use of color and typography; refined references to a well-resolved ‘doubles’ theme may be seen throughout the match out, furnishings, and branding. Prefabricated componentry, lush bursts of sentimental landscaping, and an growth into the adjoining constructing foyer area profit from this undertaking’s small finances. The result’s a brilliant and welcoming eatery that confidently gives a welcoming retreat from the busy vacationer path of Worcester Boulevard.

Resene Color Award winner

A intelligent, rigorous palette of curated inexperienced and white parts delivers crisp and nicely resolved punches of color, elegantly accentuating the lofty white background. 

Training

Te Raekura Redcliffs Faculty by Tennent Brown Architect

Conceived across the journey from Te Ihutai (the estuary) to Te Ana o Hineraki (Moa Bone Cave,) this expressive neighborhood of buildings references and join the varsity to its distinctive website and historical past. This narrative was used to information the collection of supplies; volcanic-coloured precast panels face Te Raekura, whereas wharf-like timber buildings face Te Ihutai. Numerous constructing kinds and supplies create distinctive areas and a village-like feeling, whereas illustrating the event of tamariki by means of their years on the faculty. This narrative is additional superior by means of intelligent use of differing website ranges to create lovely and discrete areas – each in and out. With its low carbon timber construction, massive photovoltaic array, pure air flow, and variety of outside areas for shade and shelter, this can be a faculty that’s sure to encourage.

Enduring Structure

Christ’s School – Memorial Eating Corridor (1925) by Cecil Wooden – Architect

The Eating Corridor, inbuilt 1925, is usually recognised as one among Ceil Wooden’s best works, though sadly it was by no means submitted for consideration of an NZIA Gold Medal award. Designed within the Collegiate Gothic Type and referencing the Nice Corridor at Christ Church in Oxford, the constructing expresses the spirit and traditions of Christ’s School and displays the high-minded beliefs of its founders. This splendidly atmospheric corridor has been a central gathering place for college kids for shut to at least one hundred years and remains to be in use as a eating corridor at this time.

First Church of Christ Scientist (1991) by Warren and Mahoney Architects

This distinctive instance of postmodernism references each classical and modernist traditions. Occupying a picturesque riverside website with a large courtyard going through onto Carlton Mill Rd, the compact constructing contains two perpendicular rectangular kinds, each topped with a barrel vault and a coffered ceiling, referencing the Pantheon in Rome. Parts of Mondrian’s works are additionally referred within the structure, externally as singular parts and within the inside the place a reproduction paintings covers the rear wall. This area of worship is each surprisingly playful and serene.

Inside Structure

Recycle Boutique by Johnstone Callaghan Architects

This beautiful area is inserted into an current hall off Excessive St to create a brand new ‘playful and free’ area for the second-hand clothes retailer ‘Recycle Boutique’. The area turns into a metaphor for Recycle Boutique’s ethos, with gadgets reused from a earlier match out and recycled plastic sheets creating show cupboards. An outsized central counter cleverly solutions useful points of the temporary and extremely detailed use of easy, cost-effective supplies elevates the commercial aesthetic into a classy retail expertise.

Resene Color Award winner 

Color is used to create a structured area with youthful power.

Small Mission Structure

Nightlight by Coll Structure

Nestled on the sting of a mature kānuka stand on the slopes above Akaroa, this 13 sq. metre undertaking gives storage and providers for the house owners’ future residence, to be constructed on the adjoining website. A polycarbonate shell with vertical modified pine slats displays the Japanese shoji and illuminates adjoining timber. From outdoors there isn’t any trace that the construction comprises a workshop, kitchen, rest room and bathe. Design element, craftsmanship and a easy materials palette permits this constructing to take a seat unobtrusively inside this website, taking nothing away from its setting and views.

Russell’s Cabins by Johnstone Callaghan Architects

Situated on an elevated website providing views throughout the Omihi vineyards, a collection of three near-identical cabins, all lower than 10 sq. metres, are cleverly positioned inside current vegetation to create privateness, exterior courtyard areas and to border distinctive views, regardless of their proximity to one another. To make sure a extra environment friendly, cost-effective building technique, the cabins had been constructed off-site, within the builder’s warehouse, and lifted into place to take a seat on timber platforms. Macrocarpa weatherboard exterior, eucalyptus inside and recycled wharf timber decks, together with the variation in elevations of the three huts, make sure the lodging sits effortlessly inside its environment.

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