2011 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
Pipitea House
With its well balanced composition of complex elements this building acknowledges its site and surroundings while providing the heightened security required by the tenant. The relationship between functional performance and user experience is handled with care. The design transcends an obvious technical competence: grand sculptural gestures coexist with subtle changes in scale and form, and there are jewel-like variations in the main material palette. The building's clear and robust elements are juxtaposed with these visual and tactile changes to introduce human scale to a large facility.
- Practice
- Athfield Architects Limited
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Wellington
