2022 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Ravenscar House
Patterson Associates have delivered an outstanding response to the generous vision of art collectors Jim and Dr Susan Wakefield. Bringing together a complex brief of art presentation, museological requirements, base isolation and carparking, this building exhibits exceptional craftsmanship and materiality throughout meticulously planned forms and spaces. Interwoven throughout is the story of the Wakefield’s earthquake damaged former home and art collection. Interior spaces reveal a sense of quiet and calm, leading the visitor through a series of curated ‘ghost rooms’ and exhibits. Volumes and areas of the original home provide the primary cues for a series of enclosed gallery spaces around a central courtyard, with glimpses to the surrounding gardens and the wider city beyond.
- Practice
- Patterson Associates Limited
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
