2020 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Bathroom Pavilion
The history of architecture has always privileged rooms of grandeur: the chamber, the parlour, the library, the hall. The modest toilet never got a sniff in. With the Bathroom Pavilion in Ashburton, architecture’s nether region becomes a space that affords the traveller with not merely convenience but, more surprisingly, with delight. Offering respite from the cooped-up confinement of the commute, the pavilion is entered not from the rear but frontally and centrally, with the arrival promenade organised so that one’s vista terminates on a grazing alpaca. A fritted glazed canopy means business can be transacted practically al fresco upon one of the impressive Japanese techno-pans.
- Practice
- Architype Limited
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
