2021 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
Wellington East Girls' College Redevelopment
A significant and highly visible fragment of Wellington’s built history has been preserved with the retention of the heritage façade of the Main Building, Matairangi, at Wellington East Girls College. This was a complex strengthening exercise, in which the multi-storey unreinforced masonry façades of the 1924 Category 1 Heritage listed building were attentively rebuilt. The historic vestibule has been painstakingly and beautifully restored, and reconnected to the daily life of the school. This was an important project, not only for the place the façade holds in the Wellington cityscape, but also for the significance of the building and its vestibule for generations of Wellington East students.
- Practice
- WSP Architecture
- Category
- Heritage
- Location
- Wellington
