2017 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Kauri Timber Building
Old and new co-exist harmoniously in this admirable piece of cityscaping that makes a staunch, if locally lonely, stand alongside a totally car-dominated street that follows the old Auckland shoreline. The past is acknowledged and respected in the renovation of the nineteenth century building, with its measured, horizontal proportions, and in the exterior treatment of the skinnier, taller new addition. In an opaque rendering of a nice historical allusion, a mesh façade lightly screens vertical, half-round columns suggestive of the kauri logs that were once traded from the original building. Connections between the two structures, and lower and upper street levels, are well handled, as is the exposure of the old sea wall and the admission of natural light into circulation spaces and offices.
- Practice
- Fearon Hay Architects Ltd
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Auckland
