2017 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
Kotuku Flats Upgrade
Working from a very utilitarian and dilapidated base of existing bedsit apartments in four blocks this upgrade project is exemplary. Fully refurbished apartments now incorporate a mix of one, two and four bedrooms, encouraging a diverse mix of tenants, including families. The site-wide reconfiguration provides community orientated outcome. Subtle colour and wall plane shifts combined with a timber screening rearticulate the blocks to the extent that the whole looks new rather than patched up. This is a truly outstanding example of a little being made to go a very long way in a critical housing sector.
- Practice
- WSP Architecture
- Category
- Housing - Multi Unit
- Location
- Wellington
