2017 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Rakaia Apartments
The first stage of this inner-city apartment development is a simple, robust and efficient five-level building housing one and two-bedroom apartments. Cleverly planned to allow for the purchase and combination of two adjoining apartments, the internal detailing and fit-out is simple and unassuming, enabling apartment owners’ personalities to take precedence. Each apartment benefits from generous balconies articulating the building form and arranged to offer maximum sunlight, privacy from its neighbour and views towards Cranmer Square. The raw materiality of textured and painted precast concrete, steel and aluminium detailing is softened by the ground floor apartments’ large landscaped courtyards. The architects and client have achieved an efficient solution for affordable inner-city apartment living in Christchurch.
- Practice
- Wilson & Hill Architects Limited
- Category
- Housing - Multi Unit
- Location
- Canterbury
