Canterbury Architecture Awards 2013

The New Zealand Institute of Architects has just announced the winners of the 2013 Canterbury Architecture Awards, and we're delighted to present them for you here.

First up, the homes: the two images below show the Annandale Shepherds Cottage and Annandale Homestead on Banks Peninsula, both sensitively restored by Pattersons, which won awards in the Heritage and Sustainable Architecture categories.

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Next, a home many of you will recognise from our Home of the Year issue last April: the Clifton Hill House (below), originally designed by Ernest A. Kalnins in 1965 and sensitively renovated by Duval O'Neill of Herriot + Melhuish.

Another award-winner in the Housing category was this home (below) by Sumich Chaplin Architects. 

Also in the Housing category, this house in Ilam (below) by C. Nott Architects.

Matz Architects designed this home in Merivale (below), also a winner in the Housing category. 

This house in Fernside (below) by Wilkie + Bruce Architects also picked up awards in the Housing and Sustainable Architecture categories.

This holiday home (below) at picturesque Ngaio Point, Akaroa, is by Wilson & Hill Architects and also won a Housing category award.

This home (below) at Pentre Terrace won a Housing award for Cymon Allfrey Architects.

C. Nott Architects' second award in the Housing category is for the 'Tekapo Tractor Shed' (below), which is actually a shed-like holiday home.

Two projects at Christchurch Airport also received Canterbury Architecture Awards. The Air New Zealand Regional Lounge (below), designed by BVN Donovan Hill and Jasmax, won awards for Commercial and Interior Architecture. 

Also at Christchurch Airport, the Integrated Terminal Project (below) by Warren & Mahoney and Hassell won an award for Commercial Architecture. 

There were three winners in the Public Architecture category. First, the Selwyn Aquatic Centre (below), designed by Warren & Mahoney, which also won a Sustainable Architecture award in recognition of its passive energy utilisation.

Another award-winning pool complex: Timaru's Caroline Bay Aquatic Centre (below), designed by Boon Goldsmith Bhaskar Brebner Team Architecture. 

Christchurch City Council's own architecture office designed the Aranui Library (below), which picked up a Sustainable Architecture award in addition to being recognised in the Public Architecture category. 

The St Margaret College's Gymnasium and Chapel project (below), designed by Athfield Architects, received an award in the Education category. 

The repair of Harper and Julius Houses at Christ's College (below) by Wilkie + Bruce Architects won a Sustainable Architecture Award for the sensitive restoration of this Category 2 Heritage building originally designed by Benjamin Mountfort. 

The University of Canterbury's James Hight Undercroft (below) won an interior architecture award in recognition of Warren & Mahoney's transformation of a space bicycle storage area into a student hub. 

Athfield Architects picked up an award in the Commercial Architecture category for their work on the Fendalton Road shops (below). 

And Fulton Ross Team Architects won an award in the Sustainable Architecture category for their work on the New Regent Street shops (below). 

Last but not least, Herriot + Melhuish Architects won an Interior Architecture award for their work on Sala Sala Restaurant (below), which also features in our current issue. 

All the winners of the Canterbury Architecture Awards are now eligible for consideration in the New Zealand Architecture Awards, which will be announced in May next year. We'll keep you posted on those, of course - as well as the other regional awards as they're announced over the coming months.

The winners in the New Zealand Architecture Awards

There's a bunch of terrific buildings in the New Zealand Architecture Awards, bestowed at a function in Auckland last night (May 24) by the NZ Institute of Architects. 

First, congratulations to Fearon Hay Architects: The Imperial Buildings, a refurbishment of an abandoned Auckland theatre complex (featured in our February/March 2012 issue), won the highest honour, the New Zealand Architecture Medal. Well-deserved, we reckon. The photo is by Patrick Reynolds.

The judges' citation said "the conversion of older buildings to new purposes ... signals a greater awareness of the worth of existing buildings, and of the possibilities they offer to imaginative clients and architects." The building also won an award in the Heritage category.

We'll look at the winners of the New Zealand Architecture Awards for housing next. Nice to see the Lake Hawea courtyard house (below) by Glamuzina Paterson Architects, a finalist in our Home of the Year award, getting recognised here, too. The photo is by Patrick Reynolds.

Glamuzina Paterson Architects picked up a second housing gong for the 'S' house (below) in Auckland's Mount Eden, which featured in our August/September 2012 issue.

Stevens Lawson Architects picked up a housing award for this home (below) in Waiake Beach in Auckland. 

And another housing award went to the Regent Park Apartments for City Housing in Wellington (below), designed by Designgroup Stapleton Architects.

The First Light House by First Light Studio (designed while its members were students at Victoria University of Wellington) picked up an award for International Architecture. It appeared at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC, and is now located on a site in Hawke's Bay, which we're looking forward to showing you in an upcoming issue. 

This place (below) isn't technically a home - it's 'The Shack' at Cloudy Bay in Marlborough, a place where guests of the vineyard can stay. It was designed by Tim Greer and Paul Rolfe and it won an award for Commercial Architecture. You might remember it from our August/September 2012 issue. 

Patterson Associates picked up a commercial award for the Geyser building in Parnell, Auckland (below), as well as an award for Sustainable Architecture.

  
And the third commercial architecture award went to Architecture + for Telecom Central in Wellington (below). 

In the education category, Architectus won an award for their design of the St Cuthbert's College Performing Arts Centre in Auckland (below). 

We always enjoy the Enduring Architecture category, and this year's winner is a treat: the School of Music at the University of Auckland by Hill Manning Mitchell (below). This shot is of the lovely courtyard behind the lyrical blank facade. Go in for a look if you're passing by - the building's in lower Symonds Street.

In the Planning and Urban Design category, there were two awards. The first went to Architectus for their work on the Karanga Plaza and kiosk at Auckland's North Wharf (below). 

The other Planning and Urban Design award went to the Buchan Group for Re:START, Christchurch's lively container mall (below).

In the Public Architecture category, Tennent + Brown and SKM won an award for the ASB Sports Centre in Kilbirnie, Wellington (below). 

Also winning a Public Architecture award was Athfield Architects' Te Hononga/Christchurch Civic Centre (below). It also won a Sustainable Architecture award.

Still in the Public Architecture category: the third winner of a Public Architecture Award was Pearson & Associates for the Rotoroa Exhibition Centre on Auckland's Rotoroa Island (below). 

The last Public Architecture Award went to Nelson's Irving Smith Jack for their design of the Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre (below). 

Two to go, both in the category of Small Project architecture. The Wellington Zoo Hub by Assembly Architects (below) picked up one of these prizes.

Finally, the last NZ Architecture Award for 2013 went to Ken Crosson of Crosson Clarke Carnachan for the Hut on Sleds at Whangapoua on the Coromandel Peninsula, a finalist in our 2012 Home of the Year award. 

Oh wait - how could we forget? Each year the NZ Institute of Architects also awards a Gold Medal for career achievement, which this year goes to Auckland architect Pip Cheshire (below) of Cheshire Architects (you might remember the Bambury house from our February/March 2009 issue, which he designed, and also the Mountain Landing house which graced the cover of our June/July 2011 issue). We've got an interview with Pip in our June/July issue, on newsstands June 3. Congratulations to him and all the New Zealand Architecture Award winners. 

NZ Institute of Architects Nelson/Marlborough awards

The New Zealand Institute of Architects' awards season is now in full swing, with another fine batch of buildings being recognised in the institute's Nelson/Marlborough Architecture Awards. First up, something you will have seen in our December/January 2012 issue: the Brancott Estate Heritage Centre (below) by Fearon Hay Architects, a winner in the commercial architecture category. Photo by Patrick Reynolds.

 

 
Cloudy Bay's The Shack (below), by Tim Greer and Paul Rolfe, also picked up an award in the commercial architecture category, and was featured in our August/September issue. Photo by Mike Rolfe.
 

This holiday home (below) by Min Hall and Arthouse Architects won an award in the residential category, and will be featured in our next issue. 

A home by Redbox Architects (below) also won a residential award. Photo by Elspeth Collier.

Wellington's Tennent + Brown Architects picked up two residential awards for homes in the Nelson/Marlborough region, the first for this house in Okiwa Bay (below, photo by Marina Mathews) and the second for the Waiwhero farmhouse (two below, photo by Jason Rothenberg), which is featured in our current issue.

There were two winners in the Enduring Architecture category. The first is a 1961 house by Ernst Plischke, photographed by Patrick Reynolds. 

The second Enduring Architecture winner in the region is photographer and publisher Craig Potton's house (below), designed by Hal Wagstaff and photographed by Paul McCredie for our February/March 2011 issue.

 Another winner in the residential category: this house (below) by Guy Herschell Architects.

Wellington's Parsonson Architects picked up a residential award for this house in the Wairau Valley (below). Look out for it in one of our upcoming issues. Photo by Paul McCredie. 

This house (below) by Palmer & Palmer Architects picked up a residential award. 

The Saxton Pavilion (below) by Arthouse Architects picked up a Public Architecture award. Photo by Oliver Weber.

And finally, Arthouse Architecture picked up a third award (this time for sustainability) for their Victory Primary School redevelopment (below).