2017 Western Architecture Awards Winner
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The stair and its dual expression – connection to the people (whakapapa) represented by the timbers from the ancestral lands, and connection to the land via the expression of the earth mother/sky father creation story – placed a strong narrative in the centre of the building. Such a direct use of narrative can be a bit thin if the architectonics don’t back it up but it was evident that the architects had taken some care working with the building’s constituents to develop the expression of narrative.
- Practice
- Elliott Architects (NP) Ltd
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Western
