Container colour a winner
Athfield Architect's design for Waterfront House wraps colours of shipping containers into a winning workspace in the 2019 Resene Total Colour Awards
Lyttelton Port’s new Waterfront House interior by Athfield Architects is the overall winner of the Nightingale Award at the 2019 Resene Total Colour Awards, celebrating their tenth year.
The winning project team at Athfield Architects Limited explains: “The interior palette references tones of the surrounding Port Hills creating a building which is grounded in nature while being constructed as part of the manufactured port landscape.”
Bespoke meeting pods, uniquely coloured in Resene Kumera and Resene Pickled Bluewood wood stains, act as markers within open-plan work spaces.
External profiled metal cladding and exposed internal structures are painted in a deep earthy red, Resene Fahrenheit, taking the colour and detailing from shipping containers and wrapping them into the interior.
The new headquarters replaces previous Lyttelton Port Company buildings damaged by the Canterbury earthquakes and supports a cultural shift for the organisation with a collegial pace for the whole company.
Nick Nightingale of Resene says the project cleverly delivers on both function and style, using colours from the port environment.
"We congratulate Athfield Architects for their masterful way of using colour in an extraordinary interior design for Lyttelton Port Company which helps bring people together from all sides of the port operation,” says Nightingale.
The Resene Total Colour Master Nightingale Award, named after the Nightingale family who founded and still run Resene today, recognises excellence in colour and paint use in New Zealand and Australia.
Karen Warman Marketing Manager at Resene says that Resene has a long history of colour.
"Today's colour range of thousands of hues is a world away from the handful that was available when Resene started 73 years ago," she says.
"The Resene Total Colour Awards were launched to encourage and celebrate excellent and creative use of colour; to showcase striking colour palettes and combinations and provide fresh inspiration.”
Full List of 2019 Resene Total Colour Award Winners:
Resene Total Colour Master Nightingale Award – Overall Winner
Waterfront House interior by Pippa Ensor, Kim Salt and Trevor Watt of Athfield Architects Limited, Wellington, for Lyttelton Port Company
Also winner of the Resene Total Colour Office Interior Award
Resene Total Colour Education Award - Winner
University of Canterbury – Rehua by Athfield Architects Limited, Wellington
Resene Total Colour Education – Runner-Up / Colour Maestro Award
Matua Ngaru School - by ASC Architects, Auckland
Resene Total Colour Rising Star Award - Winner
The Orchidstra Cocktail bar by Rachel Mao, NSW
Resene Total Colour Rising Star - Runner-Up / Colour Maestro Award
Naked Salad by Qun Zhang, VIC
Resene Total Colour Bright Spot Award - Winner
Go Bananas shelter by Sharon Shin, Auckland
Resene Total Colour Residential Interior Award - Winner
Mt Macedon Residence by Charlotte Coote of Coote&Co, NSW
Resene Total Colour Residential Interior - Runner-Up / Colour Maestro Award
Te Iti Kahurangi by Lizzie Cook, Christchurch
Resene Total Colour Residential Exterior Award - Winner
Railley House by Daniel Marshall of Daniel Marshall Architects, Auckland
Resene Total Colour Residential Exterior - Runner-Up / Colour Maestro Award
Glo Apartments by Nadine Donazzan of DNADesign, NSW
Resene Total Colour Landscape Award - Winner
Merriwa Silos by Christopher Skyner of Authority Creative, NSW
Resene Total Colour Landscape - Runner-Up / Colour Maestro Award
Te Manawa Playspace by Isthmus, Auckland
Resene Total Colour Neutrals Award - Winner
Palliser Estate Winery Tasting Room by Victoria Read of Aspect Architecture, Martinborough
Resene Installation – Experiential - Product Award - Winner
One Man’s Treasure, New Zealand Maritime Museum by Nick Eagles of The Letter Q, Auckland
Resene Installation – Experiential – Product Award - Runner-Up / Colour Maestro Award
Karekare Residency by Lyn Bergquist, Auckland
Resene Total Colour Commercial Interior Public + Retail Award - Winner
Blackwell and Sons: Emporium of Wonder by Mackit Architecture, Greytown
Resene Total Colour Commercial Interior Public + Retail - Runner-Up / Colour Maestro Award
In Good Hands Physio by Michael Cooper of Michael Cooper Architects, Auckland
Resene Total Colour Commercial Exterior Award - Winner
MOTAT Building 6 by Athfield Architects Limited, Wellington & MOTAT, Auckland
Resene Total Colour Commercial Interior Office Award - Winner
Waterfront House for Lyttelton Port Company by Athfield Architects Limited, Wellington
Resene Total Colour Commercial Interior Shared Space Award - Winner
B:Hive, Smales Farm by BVN, NSW, in association with Jasmax, Auckland
Resene Total Colour Commercial Interior Shared Space - Runner-Up / Colour Maestro Award
Henderson Police Whangaia by GHDWoodhead creativespaces, Wellington/Auckland
Resene Total Colour Heritage Award - Winner
Church of the Holy Passion by Damien Walker of The Studio of Saint Philomena, Rangiora
Resene Total Colour Heritage - Runner-Up / Colour Maestro Award
Waikohanga House by RTA Studio, Auckland, in collaboration with Archifact
Lifetime Achievement - Winner
Debbie Abercrombie
Judges' comments: ‘
If Debbie Abercrombie was a colour, she would be the rainbow. Debbie’s long and successful career as a colour expert has seen her help many clients, from large to small, navigate their way through colour choices to get just the right palette for their project.
From colour to furniture, commercial to homeowner, Debbie’s portfolio of projects is impressive. Also as a teacher, Debbie has shared her passion for, and knowledge of, colour through her long running colour courses.
Through Debbie’s work and the work of her students armed with the colour knowledge she has imparted, Debbie’s colour advice and expertise has helped re-colour thousands of projects with many more to come in the future.
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