Ashburton Courier: November 14, 2019

Local news at www.starnews.co.nz Ashburton’s The Courier, Thursday 14 November 2019, Page 35
HOME &GARDEN
South Island buildings among winners
A South Island based architect and
many South Island buildings featured
in the New Zealand Architecture
Awards ataceremony in Queenstown
at the weekend, among them Turanga,
in Christchurch,and ahall, in Leeston.
The Lakeside Soldiers Memorial
Hall in Leeston, designed by Architecture
Workshop, and the central Christchurch
library Turanga, from Architectus
and Schmidt Hammer Lassen
Architects, won Public Architecture
awards.
And Wanaka­based architect, Anne
Salmond, was named one of three
distinguished fellow of the New Zealand
Institute of Architecture.
The Lindis Lodge, a small luxury
lodge in the Ahuriri Valley designedby
Architecture Workshop, was the winner
in the hospitality category at the
institute’s annual national awards ceremony.
The five­bedroom luxury lodge with
its sweeping roof, which also featured
in New Zealand’s exhibition, ‘‘Future
Islands’’, at the 2016 Venice Architecture
Biennale, was described by judges
as "an adventurous and deeply considered
response to the challenges of
designing an isolated building in an
awe­inspiring landscape".
Arrowtown House, designed by
RTA Studio for artist clients in Arrowtown,
was awarded one of two top
prizes in the housing category.
Judges noted it was abold composition
that used the traditional building
and industrial materials of Central
Otago in aproject that was ‘‘as much an
exercise in the creation of asite as the
design of a home, and it is an
extraordinary experience to contemplate
the house in its setting’’.
In the small project category, the
Bivvy House in Queenstown, designed
by Vaughn Mcquarrie, and Kowhai
House in Dunedin, designed byRafe
Maclean Architects, won the two top
awards.
Kowhai House, built above the
Leith, was a timely exercise in sufficiency
and the optimisation of
resources and opportunity, the judges
said.
‘‘Designed as an efficient thermal
cocoon, the house also serves as atree
house, connected through its clever
positioning and carefully framed views,
with the wider view and more immediate
surrounds, especially the kowhai
tree for which it is named. The house,
which was designed for the architect’s
own family, is an intriguing exercise in
self­experimentation ­ a little box of
inbuilt happiness.’’
The Bivvy House, inagated community
in Queenstown, was a"clever
and engaging’’ piece of architecture
that provided a surprising range of
spatial experiences, they noted.
At the event Distinguished Fellow
awards, of which there are only 10 at
any one time, were bestowed on
architects Anne Salmond, of Wanaka,
and Graeme Scott and John Sutherland,
both of Auckland.
The awards jury, led by Auckland
architect Malcolm Walker and including
architects Jeff Fearon (Auckland),
Melanda Slemint (Christchurch) and
Penny Fuller (Sydney), said Salmond
had been atrail blazer for women in
architecture for more than 30 years,
leading asuccessful practice producing
high­quality architecture from abase in
asmall provincial centre.
She had championed important concerns
such as sustainable design,
prefabricated construction and the
study of post­occupancy building performance.
Award winners
The 2019 New Zealand Institute of
Architects Awards’ winners are.­
Commercial Architecture
20 Customhouse Quay, Central
Wellington, Studio of Pacific Architecture;
12 Madden, Wynyard Quarter,
Auckland, Warren and Mahoney
Architects.
Education
Nga Wai Hono, AUT School of
Engineering, Computer and Mathematical
Sciences (ECMS) Building,
Central Auckland, Jasmax.
Enduring Architecture
Athfield Home and Office, Khandallah,
Wellington, Athfield Architects.
Heritage
Rose Historic Chapel, Central
Christchurch, Dave Pearson Architects;
Nelson House Alteration, Nelson,
Sharon Jansen ­Architect.
Hospitality
Lindis Lodge, Ahuriri Valley, Waitaki,
Architecture Workshop.
Housing
Pinwheel House, Medlands, Great
Barrier Island, architecture +; Arrowtown
House, Arrowtown, Otago, RTA
Studio.
Housing ­Alterationsand Additions
Menzies POP!, Sumner, Christchurch,
Architects’ Creative.
Housing ­Multi Unit
Wynyard Central East 2, Wynyard
Quarter, Auckland, Architectus; Chen
Anselmi Units, Sydenham, Christchurch,
Bull O’Sullivan Architecture.
Interior Architecture
B:Hive, Smales Farm, Takapuna,
Auckland, BVN and Jasmax in association.
Planning &Urban Design
Kumutoto Pavilion, Wellington,
Isthmus Group; Ellen Melville Centre
and Freyberg Place, CentralAuckland,
Stevens Lawson Architects, Isthmus
Group and John Reynolds in association.
Public Architecture
Lakeside Soldiers Memorial Hall,
Leeston, Canterbury, Architecture
Workshop; Turanga, Christchurch
Central, Architectus and Schmidt
Hammer Lassen Architects.
Small Project Architecture
Kowhai House, Dunedin, Rafe
Maclean Architects; Bivvy House,
Closeburn, Queenstown, Vaughn
McQuarrie Architects.
Presidents Awards
Peter Fehl, Director, Property
Services, UniversityofAuckland; Tony
Watkins, Auckland, architect, builder,
teacher, writer, environmentalist,
urbanist, advocate and agitator; Engineering
New Zealand.
Distinguished Fellows
Graeme Scott, Auckland, ASC
Architects; John Sutherland,Auckland,
Jasmax; Anne Salmond, Wanaka, Salmond
Architecture.