2013 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Harper and Julius Houses at Christ's College
The jury congratulates Christ’s College and its Architects for retaining and painstakingly putting back with great care and attention to detail the exterior of this Category 2 Heritage building, originally designed by Benjamin Mountfort. The project entailed a significant financial commitment over and above the insurance coverage, and it is gratifying to see that the School values its outstanding architectural heritage. The building provides the south façade to one of Christchurch’s best examples of cloistered buildings, forming a green quadrangle that clearly celebrates Christ College’s collegiate life. It was perhaps unfortunate that, given the extent of the interior seismic reinforcing undertaken, more time was not given to resurrecting the heroic Gothic interior lost in an earlier alteration.
- Practice
- Wilkie + Bruce Registered Architects Ltd
- Category
- Sustainable Architecture
- Location
- Canterbury
