2025 Southern Architecture Awards Winner
O'Connells
This bold, confident upgrade to the existing O’Connells building provides an exuberant injection of energy to the existing retail landscape in central Queenstown. The project involved a complex regeneration of the 1980s shopping centre to improve seismic strength, durability, accessibility to the street, and operability for tenants. The new façade is highly permeable along three frontages at ground level, providing visual connection right through to the central atrium and ground-level food hall. Contrasting this, the façade and canopies above reference the jagged landscape beyond. Interior detailing continues the narrative through a carefully articulated palette in common areas, and playful use of colour in the bathrooms and stair areas. This is a project that is both inspired by, and gives back to, its unique context.
- Practice
- McAuliffe Stevens Limited
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Southern
