2018 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
The Piano - Centre for Music and the Arts
As the late Alun Wilkie’s architectural finale, Pīpīwharauroa, or the Piano, is a dynamic music and arts facility comprising a state-of-the-art concert hall, double-height atrium foyer and multi-purpose flexible spaces. From the street, the auditorium and foyer are expressed in curved copper and rhythmic columns, arranged separately from but in harmony with the modulation of the adjacent administration and teaching building. Pīpīwharauroa are colourful birds, historically harbingers of spring. The Māori name is appropriate as the building, which had a long gestation as a passionate post-quake project, heralds new beginnings for the music and arts in Canterbury.
- Practice
- Wilkie + Bruce Registered Architects Ltd
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
