The best New-Zealand designed buildings have been announced at the annual New Zealand Architecture Awards. Twenty-eight projects, ranging from a train station in Auckland to an apartment building in Wellington, have won awards in the country’s premiere architectural competition. Here are some of the winners, including the top award (pictured), the 2015 New Zealand Architecture Medal, awarded to the new Blyth Performing Arts Centre at Iona College, Havelock North, designed by Stevens Lawsons Architects.
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The graceful sculpted shape of the Blyth Performing Arts Centre alludes to adjacent Te Mata Peak. It glows warmly against the dark. Photo by Mark Smith.
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The Christchurch Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre is crisply white as glasshouses should be.
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On this project, The Blyth Performing Arts Centre, client and architect reached for the sublime – and they got there. Photo Mark Smith.
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This building is a contemporary take on the traditional garden greenhouse. Flanked by a stretch of the Avon River, the Visitors Centre stretches gracefully along the perimeter path to establish a new territory in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens.
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Winner of a Housing award, the In-Situ house by Stevens Lawson Architects. Photo by Mark Smith.
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Housing Award winner Castle Rock House by Herbst Architects. Photo by Patrick Reynolds.
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Hospitality award-winner Monica Loves in Napier. Photo Meredith Lord.
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The Treasury Research Centre & Archive by Architectus in Thames. Photo Simon Devitt.
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The Sir Miles Warren Award for Commercial Architecture was awarded to the Stranges and Glendenning Hill Building by Sheppard and Rout Architects. Photo Peter Cui.
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The Sir Ian Athfield Award (for Housing) went to the Lyttelton Studio Retreat by Bull O’Sullivan Architecture.
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Another view of the the Stranges and Glendenning Hill Building by Sheppard & Rout Architects. Photo Peter Cui.
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The Blyth Performing Arts Centre's striking form holds a 400-seat Concert Chamber and all necessary supporting spaces and services. Photo Mark Smith.
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A view through the trees of the Christchurch Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre designed by Patterson Associates.
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The Red House by Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects, winner of a Housing Award. Photo Simon Devitt.
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Ostend Road Home by Bull O'Sullivan Architecture. Photo by Simon Devitt.
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Boatsheds by SGA Ltd – Strachan Group Architects and Rachael Rush in association. Photo by Patrick Reynolds.
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