2020 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Naenae Regional Bowling Club
If Santiago Calatrava ever came to Naenae he would struggle to execute the affordable lightweight tensile structural gymnastics bestowed upon the Naenae Regional Bowling Club. In what may be the nation’s best bowls facility, the former outdoor greens remain but are now augmented by an international-sized, 2,500m2 covered rink. Yet it is not only the Instagram moment of the square-based, arced Xanadome, with its techno-oculus, that delights: the less heroic ancillary clubhouse is an exemplar of socially valuable architecture, with its bistro, RSA and healthcare centre all getting their rub of the green.
- Practice
- Tennent Brown Architects
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Wellington
