2023 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
The Jim Wakefield Pavilion
Like a cricket player dressed in their whites, the Jim Wakefield pavilion celebrates the joys of summer sport, and shows how a small building can still be something that adds to its community and neighbourhood. Simple architecture has been placed at the corner of the sportsground, so it doesn’t compete with the park’s open space. The transparent clubhouse form is surmounted by a twin-skinned fabric structure echoing the appropriate, tent-like architecture of Hagley Oval and the MCC in London. By placing the structure on a deck floating at sitting height above a gentle grass mound, the building provides elevation and elegantly avoids the out-of-place appearance of a typical, two-storeyed cricket pavilion.
- Practice
- Athfield Architects Limited
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
