2025 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Ngā Mokopuna
This project exemplifies forward-thinking and environmentally responsible design, achieving a Living Building Challenge outcome that sets a new benchmark for sustainable architecture. An innovative full timber structure developed in close collaboration with the engineer delivers an elegant and pioneering contribution to advancing timber technology. Warm, light-filled interiors are enriched by integrated planter boxes that recycle water, while stormwater harvesting across both buildings and extensive use of solar power underscore a holistic approach to energy and resource conservation. A central atrium with an offset stair fosters openness, connection and movement, with its dynamic planning adding spatial richness to the interior experience. Through a synthesis of architectural ingenuity, environmental responsibility and collaborative expertise, this project exemplifies the future of sustainable buildings.
- Practice
- Tennent Brown Architects
- Category
- Education
- Location
- Wellington
