2024 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Ric's
Quietly unassuming under a corrugate mantle, Ric’s café is a treat. Strong and simple timber construction and details evoke a contemporary coastal-rural vernacular. Carefully sited in the dunes adjacent to Te Arai Links golf course, the café overlooks the 12-hole putting green, beyond the beach to Taranga and Marotiri islands. This is quintessential New Zealand, but beautifully elevated. Irving has created a facility at once rugged and sophisticated, with his use of exquisitely detailed oversized elements: cedar barn doors, six-metre-deep verandahs, steel bar and copper pizza oven. The polished concrete floor reads as large-format tiles. Befitting the development’s ethos, the café optimises the highly attractive coastal setting without overpowering the natural landscape character.
- Practice
- Studio John Irving
- Category
- Hospitality
- Location
- Auckland
