2021 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
The Public Trust Building
The Public Trust building was designed by Christchurch architect Cecil Wood in 1922 and opened in 1925. The principal façade was designed to represent permanence, stability, and security; its stripped, neoclassical style was common internationally for such government buildings. Badly damaged in the Canterbury earthquakes, it was in danger of demolition until the current owners purchased it for restoration in 2017. Installing new uses in heritage buildings is not always an easy task, but in this case has been undertaken with respect and sympathy, including the addition of a rooftop bar, discreetly set back from the upper parapet. This heritage building is now a rare survivor of its type in the central city and has been carefully and meticulously conserved and restored.
- Practice
- Three Sixty Architecture
- Category
- Heritage
- Location
- Canterbury
