2024 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Ravenscar House
A project rising from destruction, Ravenscar is the generous gifting by Jim and Susan Wakefield of their art and artefact collection to the people of Ōtautahi Christchurch. Following the loss of their home to the earthquakes, the couple decided not to rebuild on the site, but commission a new house/museum in the central city. Granite from their former home, stone donated from the neighbouring Arts Centre and rubble from other cherished buildings have been incorporated into the precast panels of this building. Ravenscar is a beautifully detailed assembly of four pavilions around a central impluvium. As a piece of architecture, it bridges many readings – is it a house or is it a landscape? With a sense of intrigue in its fortified containment, internal worlds and glazed links open to the surrounding garden. Ravenscar is a new take on the lineage of English influences in the city's cultural precinct.
- Practice
- Patterson Associates Limited
- Category
- Housing
- Location
- Canterbury
