2021 Wellington Architecture Awards Winner
Good Books
The deceptively simple and highly considered design for this new bookstore focuses on three key ideas: entry, display and lighting. An industrial building facade is given new depth and visibility with the addition of a frame for climbing plants and blue panelling that reflects the store’s brand. Once inside, modular plywood bookshelves, lit from within, line each wall and allow the books themselves to become an ever-changing, living wallpaper. A central table guides circulation and provides a place to pause and engage. Custom tubular pendants hang freely through the centre, delicately illuminating the high shelving and emphasising the depth of the space. This is a fine example of how an intimate design, focused on the human scale and experience, can bring a space to life.
- Practice
- Bonnifait + Associates Architects (Atelierworkshop Ltd)
- Category
- Small Project Architecture
- Location
- Wellington
