2024 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Tuhiraki - AgResearch Lincoln Facility
This meticulously considered, self-assured building serves as a showcase for AgResearch’s cutting-edge scientific capabilities and a catalyst for innovation across the region. Robust and well-proportioned buildings encompass a central courtyard that’s perfectly attuned to its purpose and surroundings. Clearly referencing the rural-agricultural vernacular, the design incorporates astute material and colour choices and provides an homage to context. A rigorous and highly integrated approach has been achieved in accommodating the complex programme of laboratory and workspace requirements. By reducing carbon emissions, using timber technology, sun shading, natural ventilation and stormwater attenuation and treatment systems, the project has commendable sustainability credentials. The building embraces and expresses a strong cultural narrative and creates a functional, uplifting environment for its occupants.
- Practice
- Architectus and Lab-works Architecture
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
