2024 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
St Hilda’s Church Renovation
This delightful transformation of a small community church shows what can be done with a big imagination and a collaborative spirit. St Hilda’s was built in 1910 as a timber structure with an aspirational brick front to the street. When faced with earthquake-strengthening the brick façade, the congregation and First Light Studio undertook the brave move to demolish it and extend and open the church to the street with a glazed, laminated-timber arched bay window. St Hilda’s feels utterly contemporary and welcoming by day and night, thanks to a beautifully designed, folded patterned metal screen that modulates privacy and light with a magical effect inside and out.
- Practice
- First Light Studio Ltd
- Category
- Small Project Architecture
- Location
- Wellington
