2018 Southern Architecture Awards Winner
Eichardts II
Designing a building to stand alongside a nineteenth-century heritage landmark on the edge of Lake Wakatipu is no mean feat. The success of this building lies in the reinterpretation of the adjacent heritage building, an understanding of mass, and the ‘shattered’ angles of the façade – a modern take on the ‘punched apertures’ of the older building. The architect has occupied the site to the limit of the boundaries and introduced a mass of white-stone – in honour of heritage – that appears to hover above the more recessive black-steel and glass shop frontages that present to the street below. This refreshing approach is a contemporary salute to a cornerstone of local heritage.
- Practice
- Wyatt & Gray Architects Ltd
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Southern
