2015 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Young Hunter House
Young Hunter is one of the first buildings anywhere to use the PRESS pre-stressed laminated timber technology in multi-story construction. Although the structure is a direct generator of the form of the building, the architecture also engages in ideas of face and flank, economy and flexibility. In the busy redeveloped streetscape of Victoria Street, Young Hunter is surprisingly sober. It possesses a four-square quality, a direct robustness that plants its toe on the edge of the pavement with assurance. Each face responds to orientation and circumstance. A light touch has been used on the south side, where small openings are offset to one another. The laminated timber structure is evident inside, but does not dominate. A plain plywood stair speaks honestly of budget constraints. Economy of means have resulted in a virtuous outcome.
- Practice
- Sheppard & Rout Architects Ltd
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
