2020 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner
The Chapel of St. Peter
This chapel for a boys’ high school provides a spiritual moment of refreshing lightness and softness. Guests are welcomed in, and then experience a spatial compression at the point of entry. Once you are inside the main assembly space, the architecture slowly reveals itself. A sharp overhead skylight leads your eye to the altar and the inverted cross of light, referencing St Peter’s upside-down crucifixion. Light and materials are used with utmost skill and restraint to dramatically highlight the smaller reconciliation spaces and the altar in contrast to the gentleness of the general lighting. Surfaces seemingly bend to softly move light around the space. The Chapel of Saint Peter achieves a remarkable spiritual sense through simple and subtle moves that impart maximum effect and meaning.
- Practice
- Stevens Lawson Architects Ltd
- Category
- Public Architecture
- Location
- Auckland
