2013 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Christchurch Civic Building
Generous and inspiring public spaces have been wrested from a solid but not particularly distinguished existing building to provide a reassuringly impressive administrative centre for the city of Christchurch. The façade treatment is clever and enlivening, and the lobby treats visiting citizens and council staff to an experience, rare in New Zealand, of a big, well-contained volume. Sculptural elements in the lower complement the building’s muscular deportment.
- Practice
- Athfield Architects Limited
- Category
- Sustainable Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
