Forty-five buildings, from the Bay of Islands in the north to Dunedin in the south, have been announced as finalists in the 2019 New Zealand Architecture Awards, which are organised by the New Zealand Institute of Architects, New Zealand’s leading architecture awards programme.
Auckland has 15 of the finalists New Zealand’s leading architecture awards programme., and Wellington and Christchurch each have seven.
Not all finalists, however, are to be found in main centres. The awards jury will also visit Lindis Lodge, a retreat in the South Island’s remote Ahuriri Valley; Lakeside Memorial Hall in the Canterbury town of Leeston; a house on Great Barrier Island; and an office building in Te Awamutu in the Waikato.
Larger-scale projects on the awards shortlist include XXCQ in Wellington, New Zealand’s largest base-isolated building; Tūranga, the new Christchurch library; B:Hive, a contemporary workspace building in Takapuna; and Waterfront House, a new building at Lyttelton.
The awards jury led by Auckland architect Malcolm Walker compiled the shortlist from the 187 projects that earlier this year received Local Architecture Awards in the eight constituent branches of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
Walker described the awards’ heritage and public architecture categories as being particularly strong.
“The painstakingly restored and reinvented historic buildings we shortlisted illustrate a variety of ways architects have responded to complex heritage challenges,” Walker said. “We’re looking forward to visiting these projects.”
The seven heritage projects shortlisted include St Mary of the Angels church in Wellington, Rose Historic Chapel in Christchurch and the Jetty Street Development in Dunedin.
New Zealand’s Modernist heritage has not been ignored, with reworked buildings originally designed by Tibor Donner in Auckland and Ernst Plischke in Nelson having made the cut for the awards shortlist.
The awards jury will also visit three standout educational buildings: AUT’s Nga Wai Hono Building and Freeman’s Bay Primary School, both in Auckland, and the new Memorial Hall at Wellington College.
This year’s housing finalists include eight-standalone houses, two alterations and five multi-unit projects.
Walker said one project he is particularly looking forward to seeing is Housing New Zealand’s Te Maru o Tawatawa in Wellington, which looks to embody a new approach to the provision of medium-density social housing.
“New Zealand really needs high-quality, affordable multi-unit housing,” Walker said. “We hope to see good examples of this housing type as we travel through the country.”
The New Zealand Architecture Awards jury will undertake its tour of all shortlisted projects in August.
The 2019 New Zealand Architecture Awards will be announced at Queenstown Events Centre on Saturday 9 November.
New Zealand Architecture Awards 2019: Shortlist
Commercial Architecture
12 Madden Street, Auckland, Warren and Mahoney Architects
Auckland Zoo Administration Building, Auckland, Ignite Services
XXCQ, Wellington, Studio of Pacific Architecture
Waterfront House, Lyttelton, Athfield Architects
123 Vogel Street, Dunedin, McAuliffe Stevens
Education
Freeman's Bay School, Auckland, RTA Studio
Ngā Wai Hono, AUT School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences (ECMS) Building, Auckland, Jasmax
Wellington College Memorial Hall – Alan Gibbs Centre, Wellington, architecture +
Heritage
The University of Auckland Building 119, Architectus and Salmond Reed Architects in association
Waikohanga House, Auckland, RTA Studio and Archifact in association
Ellen Melville Centre and Freyberg Place, Auckland, Stevens Lawson Architects, Isthmus Group and John Reynolds in association
St Mary of the Angels, Wellington, Bulleyment Fortune Architects and Ian Bowman, Architectural Conservator, Architect in association
Nelson House Alteration, Nelson, Sharon Jansen – Architect
Rose Historic Chapel Christchurch, Dave Pearson Architects
Jetty Street Development, Dunedin, McCoy and Wixon Architects
Hospitality
Lindis Lodge, Ahuriri Valley, Architecture Workshop
Housing
Sandy Bay House, Waiheke Island, Auckland, Stevens Lawson Architects
Diagrid House, Auckland, Jack McKinney Architects
Pinwheel House, Great Barrier Island, Auckland, architecture +
The Landing – Vineyard House, Northland, Cheshire Architects
Desmond House, Christchurch, Warren and Mahoney Architects
Kowhai House, Dunedin, Rafe Maclean Architects
Bob's Cove House, Queenstown, RTA Studio
Arrowtown House, RTA Studio
Housing – Alterations and Additions
Small Tall Alteration, Auckland, Jack McKinney Architects
Menzies POP!, Christchurch, Architects’ Creative
Housing Multi-unit
Wynyard Central East 2, Auckland, Architectus
Salamanca Apartments, Wellington, Parsonson Architects
Te Maru o Tawatawa, Wellington, Studio of Pacific Architecture
Chen Anselmi Units, Christchurch, Bull O'Sullivan Architecture
Stackbrae, Wanaka, Assembly Architects
Interior Architecture
B:Hive, Auckland, BVN and Jasmax in association
EWA Studio, Hamilton, Edwards White Architects
Spectrum Building, Te Awamutu, Christopher Beer Architect
Waterfront House, Lyttelton, Athfield Architects
Tūranga, Christchurch, Architectus and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Planning & Urban Design
Wynyard Central Master Plan, Auckland, Architectus
Te Onekiritea/Hobsonville Point Masterplan, Auckland, Isthmus Group
The Riverbank Lane, Hamilton, Edwards White Architects
Public Architecture
Kumutoto Pavilion, Wellington, Isthmus Group
He Tohu Document Room, Wellington, Studio of Pacific Architecture
Lakeside Soldiers Memorial Hall, Leeston, Architecture Workshop
Tūranga, Christchurch, Architectus and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, Christchurch, Andrew Barrie Lab
Small Project Architecture
Chapel for Mother Aubert, Wellington, Tennent+Brown Architects
Bivvy House, Wanaka, Vaughn McQuarrie
Te Kea Hut, Wanaka, Rafe Maclean Architects