2020 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
The Welder
The Welder is an exemplary architectural response to a brief that reimagined a cluster of existing industrial buildings, mixed-use tenancies and public spaces as a community hub for health and wellbeing. The architect’s moves were to combine an open, airy layout with harmonious pathways and a central atrium to create a space that feels like an urban laneway. The ad-hoc design language created by mixing new with heritage also speaks to each tenancy, encouraging each to develop its own distinct feel, while unifying them with signage and planting. A conscious effort to retain as many existing materials as possible, along with new wooden elements made from recycled timber, have resulted in a tactile environment with old-world charisma.
- Practice
- Three Sixty Architecture
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
