2025 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Catalina Bay Apartments
This is a large building elegantly conceived as 'a series of architectural objects'. Townhouses adjoin and conceal a podium/carpark, activating a waterfront promenade and referencing the adjacent Sunderland hangar. Two stepping towers, separated to preserve views from nearby Harrier Park to a distant trig station, contain apartments that engage intensely with superb water views. Vertical and horizontal fenestration and rich materiality further reference surrounding hangar structural systems. Despite Catalina Bay's ambitious programmatic aspirations, this building never feels overbearing or dominating of its context. Almost classical, it is a reminder of how good architecture can enrich the public realm.
- Practice
- Architectus
- Category
- Housing - Multi Unit
- Location
- Auckland
