2016 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
26 Salisbury Street Townhouses
These four-bedroom, three-level townhouses cleverly respond to their tight, inner-city constraints. Sharp gabled forms (an acknowledgement of Warren and Mahoney's early modernist beginnings) influenced by the planning envelope extend out to the street to provide a strong and active presence. This is one of the first Christchurch's building projects utilising cross-laminated timber panel technology, which replaces traditional timber framing. Partially expressed internally, this provides character and contrast with white plasterboard surfaces among a wider material palette that includes black zinc and bleached cedar. These townhouses are an outstanding exemplar for medium- density, central-city living.
- Practice
- Warren and Mahoney Architects New Zealand Ltd
- Category
- Housing - Multi Unit
- Location
- Canterbury
