2024 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Common Space Studio
Architecture privileges the visual, whether in building or representation. Yet here is an architect and a speculative portfolio of work that is constantly challenging our ways of seeing. At Common Space Studio, beneath a perfunctory, black-painted ceiling – all cabled services and ducting – stands an infinity cyclorama which, as a white-out, instantly renders a visitor blind to the horizon. Spin your head 180 degrees and you see a trompe-l'oeil – an architectural trick of the eye - where the inner workings of the two-level commercial spaces appear flattened onto postcard windows. Superlatively, dazzling and dizzying. The smallest projects leave the biggest effects.
- Practice
- Pac Studio
- Category
- Small Project Architecture
- Location
- Auckland
