2024 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Whare Mīmīrū
This project is an amplification. A seismic change literally as well as materially. A deep investigation into Aotearoa’s built heritage and construction science, this ongoing project reminds us of who we have been and gives us context for who we will be. Where heritage can be considered the process of fortifying our narratives, Mīmīrū reminds us that there is no distinction between engineering and architecture in Māoritanga. Providing us with a new possibility for wide-span carbon-neutral structural frames that we desperately need, Mīmīrū lights another path to environmentally respectful building, powerfully bringing ancestral mātauranga (traditional knowledge) into the present.
- Practice
- Ngārchitecture and Dr Jeremy Treadwell in association
- Category
- Heritage
- Location
- Waikato/Bay of Plenty
