2018 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
Trafalgar Centre
A simple, elegant and robust pavilion has transformed Nelson’s indoor events centre, adding amenity and providing a graceful and effective transition to and connection with Trafalgar Park. The new structure cleverly avoids the trap of treating addition as accretion: the pavilion holds its own as a piece of architecture, while enhancing the existing buildings. The project, which involved the seismic strengthening of the stadium, is an admirable exemplar of sustainability. To a modest budget, a 1970s facility has been given new life and added purpose, and in a very public place the architects have demonstrated the difference good architecture can make in a community.
- Practice
- Irving Smith Architects Ltd
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Nelson/Marlborough
