2021 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Christchurch Town Hall (1972)
How could architects so young design with such vision? This project is testament to the very rare skills of Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney (both 35 at the time), and acoustician Sir Harold Marshall (33), and the ways in which they combined their abilities to create a masterpiece of national and international significance. Rugged, robust, refined and delicate, this architecture is one of contrast and contradiction that harmonises into a jaw-dropping effect. From carpet colours to door handles, and from lampshades to acoustic baffles, nothing was left to accident, and nothing could be better. The Christchurch Town Hall has truly endured and risen again to take its rightful place in the canon of New Zealand architecture.
- Practice
- Warren and Mahoney Architects New Zealand Ltd
- Category
- Enduring Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
