2023 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Chapel Addition - St Mark’s Anglican Church, Opawa
This small addition to St Mark’s Church is an essay in how new architecture can fit comfortably alongside older buildings. The architect’s choice to use a similar material palette, but detailed in a modern way, is key to the chapel’s architectural external dialogue with the older church building. The attention to detail, especially to the exterior, is simply stunning – every stone has been given the care and love this project needed to be successful. The chapel’s interior blends perfectly with the newly renovated church interior, providing an excellent space for silent reflection. Marking the amalgamation of two churches, the crowning joy of both interior and exterior is the stained-glass window. Salvaged from the sister church following the earthquakes, its expertly resolved proportions look perfectly at home in the new location.
- Practice
- Chaplin Crooks Architects Ltd
- Category
- Small Project Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
