2023 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Fonua Mana
The architect describes this project as ‘ruthlessly simple’. The building is indeed an extraordinary feat – the ruthless execution of architecture at a budget level not often explored by architects. Architecture with this cost constraint requires rigorous decision making for sure. It also requires generosity. In the beginning there was a gift of land, then the gift of a story. The architect’s response, also a gift, is a building so simple, so resonant, and so full of love it is hard to comprehend. How can something so simple, so low cost, be so powerful? There is a lesson here for us all.
- Practice
- Bull O'Sullivan Architecture Ltd
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
