New Zealand Architecture Awards – 2018 Shortlist Announced
Forty-eight projects around the country from Auckland to Southland have been shortlisted in the 2018 New Zealand Architecture Awards.
The finalists in the peer-reviewed awards programme run by the New Zealand Institute of Architects range in scale from public projects such as the Waterview Connection, Manukau Bus Station and Christchurch Justice and Emergency Services Precinct to accomplished small projects such as Objectspace gallery in Auckland, He Tohu Document Room at the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington, and Estuary Walkway Shelters in Invercargill.
The diverse shortlist includes a car showroom and a restaurant in Auckland, a riverside plaza in Hamilton, a dental clinic in Wellington, biological research centre in Nelson and restored church in Kaiapoi.
Convenor of the awards jury, Auckland architect Richard Goldie, said the education and public architecture categories are particularly strong this year.
“The jury is looking forward to visiting some very good school and university buildings,” Goldie said. “Education projects couple specific requirements and high expectations. It’s not easy to get them right.”
Standout projects on school campuses include two Christchurch awards finalists – Cathedral Grammar Junior School and St Andrew’s College Centennial Chapel. Larger-scale education work is represented on the shortlist by the University of Auckland Science Centre, The Hub – Te Huna at Unitec, Rutherford House Redevelopment and Te Toki a Rata Building, both at Victoria University of Wellington, and Te Kei at Ara City Campus in Christchurch.
In Auckland, the awards jury, which also includes Wellington architect John Melhuish, Dunedin architect Andrea Bell and Melbourne architect Amy Muir, will visit new models for both modern workspaces and urban intensification – GridAKL Innovation 5A (12 Madden) and Mason Bros, Wynyard Quarter, and the Vinegar Lane development in Ponsonby.
Hamilton’s architectural revival is evident not only in the Victoria on the River public park area, but also in the adjacent Mezz Box and in a new building at the Church of the Latter Day Saints complex at Temple View.
Demonstrating the strength of New Zealand architects’ residential work, 20 housing projects have made the awards shortlist. Again, the finalists are located around the country. The jury will visit houses in Auckland and Wellington, but also in Taupiri, Rotorua, Te Horo, Hamner and Alexandra.
Richard Goldie said he is pleased that a Housing New Zealand development in Mt Albert, Auckland, is also on the awards shortlist.
“Social housing is hugely important and also, because of budget constraints, architecturally challenging,” Goldie said. “We have to find ways to up the game with this type of work, and Housing New Zealand obviously is trying hard to lift standards of design and performance.”
The New Zealand Architecture Awards jury will undertake its tour of all shortlisted projects at the end of this month. The 2018 New Zealand Architecture Awards will be announced at Te Papa, Wellington, on 9 November.
2018 New Zealand Architecture Awards – shortlist
Commercial Architecture
Te Kei, Ara City Campus Christchurch > Athfield Architects
Mezz Box, Hamilton > Edwards White Architects and Designwell in association
Plant and Food Research Facility, Nelson > Jerram Tocker Barron Architects and Lab-works Architecture in association
119 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland > Warren and Mahoney Architects
Education
Cathedral Grammar Junior School, Christchurch > Andrew Barrie Lab and Tezuka Architects
The University of Auckland Science Centre > Architectus
Unite The Hub – Te Puna, Mt Albert, Auckland > ASC Architects and Designgroup Stapleton Elliott
Victoria Business School: Rutherford House Redevelopment, Wellington > Athfield Architects
Te Toki a Rata Building, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn > Warren and Mahoney Architects
Housing
Miramar House, Wellington > Andrew Sexton Architecture
Sawtooth, Queenstown > Assembly Architects
Beck Family Home, Alexandra > Bull O’Sullivan Architecture
The Family Bach, Hamner > Cymon Allfrey Architects
River Retreat, Taupiri > Edwards White Architects
Mt Eden House, Auckland > Guy Tarrant Architects
Kawakawa House, Piha, Auckland > Herbst Architects
12 Year House, Cable Bay > Irving Smith Architects
Spitaki House, Island Bay, Wellington > Lovell and O'Connell Architects
Akaroa – Maison Rue Jolie, Banks Pensinsula > PAC – Paterson Architecture Collective and Glamuzina Architects
Te Horo Bach > Parsonson Architects
Turama, Rotorua > RTA Studio
Bay House, Castor Bay, Auckland > SGA Ltd – Strachan Group Architects
Rawene House, Westmere, Auckland > Stevens Lawson Architects
Housing – Alterations and Additions
‘Shed’ and a.k.a Office, Mt Victoria, Wellington > a.k.a Architecture
Bach with Two Roofs, Golden Bay > Irving Smith Architects
Tree Villa, Ponsonby, Auckland > Matter
The Stables, Ponsonby, Auckland > McKinney + Windeatt Architects
Housing – Multi Unit
Binoculars, Queenstown > Assembly Architects
Jennings Jersey, Mt Albert > Monk MacKenzie
Interior Architecture
Singleton Dental, Karori, Wellington > Andrew Sexton Architecture
Station Cabin, Wanaka > Crosson Architects
GridAKL Innovation 5A (12 Madden) and Mason Bros, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland > Jasmax
119 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland > Warren and Mahoney Architects
Planning & Urban Design
Victoria on the River, Hamilton > Edwards White Architects and AECOM New Zealand in association
Vinegar Lane, Ponsonby, Auckland > Isthmus Group
The Waterview Connection, Auckland > Warren and Mahoney Architects
Public Architecture
St Andrew’s College Centennial Chapel, Christchurch > Architectus
Manukau Bus Station, Auckland > Beca Architects and Cox Architecture in association
Te Manawa Atawhai Catherine McAuley Centre, Riccarton, Christchurch > Hamish Shaw Architects
Trafalgar Centre, Nelson > Irving Smith Architects
He Tohu Document Room, National Library, Wellington > Studio of Pacific Architecture
David O.McKay Stake Centre and Cultural Events Centre, Temple View, Hamilton > Walker Group Architects
Small Project Architecture
Invercargill Estuary Walkway Shelters > Beattie McDowell Architects
Objectspace Gallery, Ponsonby, Auckland > RTA Studio
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