2019 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Kumutoto Pavilion
This edgy little pavilion – playful and allusive, both sculpture and shelter – is a welcome addition to Wellington’s urban littoral. The project, which comprehends the adjacent landscaping and wider public space, is as much about site as structure: the footprint reaches down to a new section of harbour edge and a mini-canal, a batten wall offers a fold of protection against the southerly wind, and the Capital’s tectonic condition is overtly acknowledged in the pavilion’s folded timber decking and contorted canopy form. The notion of the long lunch is amusingly, and, given the pavilion’s location and economy of enclosure, optimistically expressed in the communal dining table that faces out to the harbour.
- Practice
- Isthmus Group Ltd
- Category
- Planning & Urban Design
- Location
- Wellington
