2024 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
MADE
This project articulately connects a section of Kirikiriroa Hamilton’s Victoria Street through an existing building to the Waikato te Awa (Waikato River) waterfront. The architecture draws people through the established shopfront by way of clever use of large-scale mesh and text, which serve as a wayfinding language across a complex site and highlight the urban fabric. The architects have focused attention on existing positive spatial experiences, while adding warmth and texture in the fitout. It was a bold move to keep outdated aesthetic aspects, but the architects have taken this in hand – successfully making full use of the existing building fabric with new elements of smoke-and-mirrors creativity, bringing a social place to life.
- Practice
- Edwards White Architects Ltd
- Category
- Planning & Urban Design
- Location
- Waikato/Bay of Plenty
