2012 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Government House Conservation Project
An excellent exercise in conservation architecture has seen the Edwardian building that has housed New Zealand’s head of state for more than a century rendered fit for contemporary occupation and use, and preserved as an important artefact of the country’s colonial legacy. Exemplary documentation, presenting thorough research into the building’s history and detailed recording of the conservation process, has guided the project’s impressive realisation. From rooms to roof, on the exterior and throughout the interior, the architectural manners exhibited at Government House are as least as cultivated as those displayed by generations of the building’s vice-regal inhabitants.
- Practice
- Athfield Architects Limited
- Category
- Heritage
- Location
- Wellington
