Wellington architecture
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Project • By Herriot Melhuish O’Neill Architects • Libraries
Te Awe Library
Across one and a half floors of the recently strengthened Harbour City Centre, HMOA has created a welcoming hub and meeting place on Wellington's Golden Mile. Te Awe is a temporary library while Wellington awaits the seismic strengthening of the Central Library in Civic Square, designed by Ian Athfield.
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"Te Awe Library is a welcoming public space for the community to make its own, whether as a living room, a study area, or a place to simply pause," NZIA Awards Jury comment, "... the architect deployed a design strategy to craft a public space that is generous in both spatial experience and quality".
Photo: Andy Spain
An internal street links the two entranceways and a cafe, designed by Alistair Cox, is carefully in... More
News • News • 23 May 2023
RK Residence in Wellington offers an alluring equanimity as it settles softly into the New Zealand landscape
Recently shortlisted for the NZIA Local Award 2023, RK Residence by Seear-Budd Ross offers an alluring equanimity as it settles softly into the landscape and responds to its native surroundings through texture and tone.
Rory Gardiner
The most prominent architectural feature of the home is a stretched hip roof. The wide and low roof profile, which derives from the built vernacular form of the area, is integral to presenting a highly unified exterior volume that covers both the garage and main living area with a sense of continuity, calm, and unity.
This unified exterior gives little away as to the volume within. This is enhanced by an arrival sequence and pavilion-style home layout with a cave-like entry nook clad in... More