2013 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Regional Terminal at Christchurch Airport
Masterfully deploying structure, materials, colour and forms, the Architects have produced a well-researched and delightfully creative interior that imparts a regional identity to the airport terminal. There is no doubt this feels like an appropriately South Island terminal: the dark floor refers to the region’s river beds; an heroic timber truss anchors the interior; and the play of timber ceiling panels outlines a window-edge silhouette of the Southern Alps. In this context, the loose placement of the central ribbed coffee station and the sinuous black seating cannot but transport you to somewhere along the coastline of the South Island, Te Waka a Māui.
