2015 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
The University of Auckland Building 303
The maths and physics students of the 1970s who toiled in this dour, squat, Brutalist block would surely embrace its recent humanising interventions with envy. From the welcoming blast of coloured glass at the new Princes Street-facing entrance to the way in which the building has been reunited with Albert Park’s tossing treetops and the view east of the campus, this intelligent reconfiguration, repurposing and remediation has created warm public transition spaces, restful breakout areas and office environments that leave the old prison-style corridors of the past in the, well, past. The red bridge on level four is surely a stroke of wit and brilliance.
- Practice
- Architectus
- Category
- Education
- Location
- Auckland
