2018 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Christchurch Justice and Emergency Services Precinct
A complex and locally unprecedented project to bring together courts, police and emergency services in one resilient facility has been very well executed. The architectural team has demonstrated both command of scale and attention to detail in realising a building in which the programme is expressed with admirable clarity. Circulation spaces around a central courtyard have been handled well, as has the admission of natural light. The building exhibits appropriate gravitas, but seriousness is leavened with serenity through material and colour palettes which introduce necessary warmth and legibility to a scene of potentially fraught encounters. The genuine integration throughout the building of mahi toi is especially welcome.
- Practice
- Warren and Mahoney Architects New Zealand Ltd , Opus Architecture and Cox Architecture
- Category
- Interior Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
