2025 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Adam Art Gallery (1999)
A clever insertion on a challenging, constrained site, the Adam Art Gallery encapsulates an existing landscape stair, maintaining connectivity between buildings while proposing a spatially dynamic modern gallery experience — one that continues to challenge the norms of ‘display’. The Gallery’s towering rectangular form contains a dynamic and layered interior, where the expansive volume can be experienced as a whole, as well as a vertically layered framework allowing artwork to be engaged with from many vantage points. Despite having a constrained budget at the time, the zinc-clad design maximises durability, resilience and aesthetic cohesion. The building reflects the architect’s intent, one that speaks to an understated presence while ensuring enduring value and relevance 26 years on.
- Practice
- Athfield Architects Limited
- Category
- Enduring Architecture
- Location
- Wellington
