2020 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Cox Street R C Webb Flats (1965)
This very precise block of four ‘flats’ (as was the term used in the old days) comprised of unpainted concrete blocks, 45-degree pitched metal roofs and painted timber joinery reassuringly maintain a striking street presence 55 years after they were built. The south elevation a masterclass of simple forms, with truthful proportions and elegant details that have only improved with time. The architecture is clearly domestic, but its brutal expression and austerity is almost commercial, prefacing the architects’ later contributions to that class. It is this legacy that has elevated these houses beyond the norm and put them firmly on the map for architecture enthusiasts.
- Practice
- Warren and Mahoney Architects New Zealand Ltd
- Category
- Enduring Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
