2015 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
University of Canterbury – Secondary Data Centre Refurbishment
Another of Hall and McKenzie’s university buildings, the Data Centre was designed in 1966 as the telephone exchange, in a streamlined modernist style not unlike the buildings of Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil. The building has now been structurally upgraded and altered to meet compliance standards, as well as retrofitted with the requisite communications technologies in order to house the university’s data functions. This has been professionally achieved without affecting the building’s distinctive style and the way the upper floor appears to float weightlessly above the grass berm.
- Practice
- Warren and Mahoney Architects New Zealand Ltd
- Category
- Heritage
- Location
- Canterbury
