2023 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
Bodhinyanarama Buddhist Monastery (1992)
Sitting quietly within a beautiful bush setting on the hills of Stokes Valley, the Bodhinyanarama Monastery has served as a spiritual focus for Wellington’s South-East Asian Buddhist community for more than 30 years. A generosity of spirit – architect as designer and builder, with a dedicated team lending skill, love and an old-school No.8-wire attitude – created this building. The blending of vernaculars fuses influences of Thai forest monasteries with Japanese jointing, and local native timbers with common construction methodology. The building is a layered series of enclosures leading to the shrine, encouraging peace and mindfulness. The physical procession supports and symbolises the spiritual journey. An enduring relationship between the architect and this special place has resulted in enduring architecture.
- Practice
- Tennent Brown Architects
- Category
- Enduring Architecture
- Location
- Wellington
