Separately, the Herald reported in March how plans were approved for an entity linked to Rod Drury to build a partly-sunken home with a guesthouse, pool and surf shed among sand dunes at Te Arai.
Those designs are also by award-winning Monk Mackenzie.
That planned new home is to be built near the $200 million South Pacific golfing paradise.
NZIA awards tonight also went to Hobsonville Point’s new $150 million Catalina Bay apartments, the SeaLink Wynyard Ferry Terminal in the CBD and the interior of new hotel Horizon by SkyCity.
All up, 36 awards were announced.
Jury convenor Guy Tarrant said: “This year’s awards highlight the value architects bring to projects in response to constraints of site, size and budget”.
“These were all drivers for exceptional outcomes and a testament to the ability of architects to turn challenges into opportunities.”
Winning projects also highlighted architects’ continued commitment to exploring affordable housing solutions, featuring intelligent planning and innovative uses of new and sustainable materials, Tarrant said.
He cited the Pocket Houses project by Dorrington Atcheson Architects. The architects had come up with a viable backyard housing model that challenged accepted norms of multi-unit housing design, he said.
The Catalina Bay Apartments were praised for using the protected view shaft of a nearby trig station as the catalyst for a fragmented, stepped form that elegantly engaged its waterfront setting.
Category award winners
Commercial
- RTA Studio by RTA Studio and Jack McKinney Architects in association
- SeaLink Wynyard Ferry Terminal by Architectus
- 303 Remuera Rd by Fearon Hay Architects
- Horizon by SkyCity: Warren and Mahoney Architects and Moller Architects
Education
- Pukekohe High School Learning Block by DCA Architects of Transformation
- AUT Tukutuku by Jasmax
- Manutara — Murrays Bay Primary School by Warren and Mahoney Architects
- Hiwa campus: University of Auckland Recreation and Wellness Centre by Warren and Mahoney Architects and MJMA Architecture & Design Toronto
Heritage
- St Mary’s Old Convent Chapel Restoration by Salmond Reed Architects
- Grey Lynn Public Conveniences by Matthews & Matthews Architects
Housing
- Onetangi Cliff House on Waiheke Island by Herbst Architects
- Palimpsest House at Te Arai by Monk MacKenzie
- Sand Boxes at Piha by Herbst Maxcey Metropolitan Architects
- Palmers Beach House Aotea Great Barrier by Leuschke Group Architects
- Kawau Island House by Novak+Middleton
- Muriwai Farmhouse by Mercer and Mercer Architects
- Sefton House by Ashton Mitchell
- Prospect House by MAUD
- Bush Block by Patchwork Architecture
Housing: alterations, additions
- Light Catcher by Jose Gutierrez
- Wainamu at Te Henga Bethells Beach by Bureaux
- Lava Flow by Pac Studio
- St Heliers House by Stevens Lawson Architects
- 19Q on Waiheke Island by SGA Strachan Group Architects
- Alberon by Jack McKinney Architects
Housing: multi-unit
- Catalina Bay Apartments by Architectus
- One Saint Stephens in Parnell by MAP
- Pocket Houses at Avenue Rd by Dorrington Atcheson Architects
- Lightbox by Novak+Middleton
Interior architecture
- Horizon by SkyCity by Warren and Mahoney Architects and Moller Architects
- Deloitte Auckland by Fisher Partners and Custance Associates
Small project architecture
- Washworld by Lloyd Hartley Architects
- Karanga Changing Sheds by Pac Studio
- So Fresh, So Clean by W3
Enduring architecture
- The Point (2000) apartments, Viaduct Harbour by Moller Architects.
The awards panel was Guy Tarrant, Andrea Bell from bell + co in Dunedin, Katrina Keshaw from Keshaw McArthur, Elspeth Gray from Roberts Gray Architects, and Jasper van der Lingen from Sheppard & Rout in Christchurch.
Anne Gibson has been the Herald‘s property editor for 25 years, written books and covered property extensively here and overseas.
