2022 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Kohinga St Albans Community Centre
With a gently folded façade that draws visitors into its Colombo Street entrance, this much-loved community centre reinforces the Edgeware Village masterplan by further defining the cultural centre of the community. With the careful placement of multipurpose spaces, meeting rooms, kitchen and supporting spaces along the south side, the architects created an open and light filled east-west gallery. The scale and composition of the building shows a genuine consideration of the existing suburban streetscape yet allows it to portray its civic functions. Beauty and warmth are gained throughout from the exterior pinus radiata cladding, internal spruce glulam beams, and cross laminated timber walls, ceilings, and floors. The building is a net zero cradle to grave embodied energy building.
- Practice
- Christchurch City Council
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
