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Top award for Iona centre

A Havelock North building has scored the top prize in the annual New Zealand Architecture Awards.

The designer of Iona College’s new Blyth Performing Arts Centre, Stevens Lawson Architects, was presented with the 2015 New Zealand Architecture Medal at an awards evening held at the Auckland Museum last night (October 30).

The same company also took out the New Zealand Architecture Award for another building at the same school – the Iona College Information Resource Centre.

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-eight projects, ranging from a combined train station and tertiary institution in south Auckland to  a showroom in Shanghai, and from a radiotherapy unit in Tauranga to an apartment building on the Wellington waterfront, were finalists in the awards.

Awards jury convenor, Auckland architect Pete Bossley, said there was an abundance of buildings available for consideration by the judging panel, made up of architects Sharon Jansen from Wellington, Jeremy Smith from Nelson, and Damien Eckersley from Brisbane.

“The tough calls began on day one of shortlisting and continued to the very end,” Bossley said. “It has been a strong year in New Zealand architecture, and the buildings we saw amazed and enticed us. It was a privilege to visit them, and a challenge to judge them.”

The jurors described the Blyth Performing Arts Centre, which won the education category as well as the medal, as a “beautifully planned and executed building in which technical as well as architectural issues have been resolved masterfully.

 “On this project, client and architects reached for the sublime – and they got there,” the Awards jury said.   

Havelock North also starred in another category, with Coleraine House taking out one of four enduring architecture awards.

Coleraine House, formerly Buck House, near Havelock North, is one of the most celebrated buildings designed by the late Sir Ian Athfield. “Icon is an overused word, but there really are few more iconic sights in New Zealand architecture than Coleraine House sitting bright among rows of vines on the slopes of Te Mata Peak,” the jury said. “Valued and cared for, it stands as a testament to a great architectural talent.”   

The other three enduring architecture awards went to Lopdell House in Titirangi, Gibbs House in Parnell and Deanwell School in Hamilton.

4 October 2017

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