2022 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Diocesan Arts Centre
This project is impressive in scale and ambition. The facility allows performing arts students to readily transition between studio learning and practice and includes a 920-person auditorium that provides the school with a key gathering space to celebrate the learning and life of the campus, while providing the broader community with a theatre of notable quality and versatility. Building on an already constrained site adjacent to the heritage listed Chapel of St Barnabas, the architects have carefully manipulated the external form and its finishes to provide a striking new frontage for the school and a nuanced neighbour to the chapel. The result is a built project that sensitively and elegantly mediates between scales, occasions and learning needs.
- Practice
- Upton Architects Ltd and McIldowie Partners in association
- Category
- Education
- Location
- Auckland
