2012 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Novotel Auckland Airport
Conveniently located, if not picturesquely sited, the Novotel Hotel rises out of an Auckland airport carpark and transcends the architectural standards of its environs. The Architect has done well to accommodate the necessary program in the available space, realising a direct and assertive building while capitalising on opportunities to add distinctiveness to an inevitably generic building type. Hotels are not easy projects; here, elements such as the columns on the exterior structure and the sculptural stairway leading from the lobby demonstrate a welcome determination to transform amenity into an enlivening architecture.
- Practice
- Warren and Mahoney Architects New Zealand Ltd
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Auckland
