2010 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
City Gallery Wellington
This is an example of an architect being given the rare opportunity to revisit a dream established many years in the past. The Gallery entry hall now demarcates an edge of the Civic Square with a new visual link through to Harris Street. It has become a grand and appropriate space for one of the city�s important public institutions. The simply adorned lecture theatre and relocated Hirschfield Gallery occupy a starkly contrasting structure located comfortably between the existing heritage building and City Library. It has a rusting intensity that acts as a counterweight to the functionality of the interior spaces and in itself can be viewed as an object and not a building; a wonderful contradiction.
- Practice
- architecture +
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Wellington
