2016 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
Palliser Road House
An unapologetically modern intervention to a classic Athfield Architects-designed house achieves the best of both worlds: liveability is brought up to date while the 'old' is faithfully preserved. Comfort for new occupants is ensured through (over- code) insulation and double-glazing in new windows, which have been unobtrusively installed to create surprising new views and connections with the existing building. Under the moniker of the Elder House [a reference to the commissioning owners], this house also received an Enduring Architecture Award (p.23) this year, further acknowledgment of the quality of integration between old and new. This is a house with a great past and a great future.
- Practice
- John Mills Architects
- Category
- Housing - Alterations and Additions
- Location
- Wellington
