2025 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Catalina Bay Apartments
The Catalina Bay Apartments set a benchmark for high-density living in the Hobsonville area with a varied urban form and response to its context. The building cleverly sleeves a row of three-level townhouses to conceal the above grade car parking behind, while two apartment tower blocks sit on top. The design responds to a viewshaft constraint across the site with the building mass broken into two tower blocks of unequal heights. There is a clarity in the design outcome with a clearly expressed structural grid of the apartment blocks populated with infill walls and balcony zones while the townhouses are clad in brick to distinguish them from the towers behind. The project successfully creates and establishes an urban edge to the developing precinct.
- Practice
- Architectus
- Category
- Housing - Multi Unit
- Location
- Auckland
