2022 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Christchurch Boys' High School: Caddick Caldwell Blocks
This project successfully demonstrates how to develop an extensive new facility that incorporates modern teaching pedagogy, while respecting the heritage of existing buildings. The notion of the quadrangle provides space and time between new and old, as well as a series of outdoor spaces suited for a range of educational uses. The new build is broken into two separate blocks to create a series of outdoor spaces and pathways across the site, as well as moderate the overall scale and composition of the intervention. Traditional teaching spaces and modern learning environments are arranged around breakout spaces to suit the school’s teaching needs. Contemporary materials and colours contrast and complement the heritage buildings.
- Practice
- Athfield Architects Limited
- Category
- Education
- Location
- Canterbury
