2020 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
SOF Hotel
Despite having what Trip Advisor refers to as a ‘post-apocalyptic façade which looks like it could collapse at any time’, this project for a boutique backpackers’ hotel offers a sophisticated and novel account of architecture as a building site. In doing so, it challenges the current paradigm of renovation as sustainability. Does ‘making good’ really contribute towards an 'architecture of good intentions'? In the spirit of Gordon Matta-Clark’s work on dilapidated buildings, the architects of SOF Hotel have rethought ecological culture. Doing less potentially yields more: the project suggests that architects might collaborate with – rather than defend against – natural processes of degradation.
- Practice
- Fearon Hay Architects Ltd
- Category
- International Architecture
- Location
- International
