Timber Design Awards winners
Taieri Bach by Regan Johnston of Mason and Wales won the Residential Architectural Excellence category and was named joint supreme winner at the 2014 NZ Wood Resene Timber Design Awards.
Coastlands Aquatic Centre designed by Toby Mason while working for LHT Design of Hastings won the Engineering Excellence category and was named joint supreme winner at the 2014 NZ Wood Resene Timber Design Awards.
Kelburn Cable Car Terminus by Rik Slessor of Bevan Slessor Architects won the Commercial Architectural Excellence category at the 2014 NZ Wood Resene Timber Design Awards.
Eastbourne Public Toilets by Rik Slessor of Bevan Slessor Architects won the Exterior Innovation category at the 2014 NZ Wood Resene Timber Design Awards.
Milse Dessert Restaurant by Nat Cheshire of Cheshire Architects won the Interior Innovation category at the 2014 NZ Wood Resene Timber Design Awards.
Evans House by Michael O’Sullivan of Bull/O’Sullivan Architecture won the Indigenous Timber Showcase category at the 2014 NZ Wood Resene Timber Design Awards.
Bougainville Library by Paul Kerry-Hislop of Art + Architecture won the Outdoor Infrastructure category at the 2014 NZ Wood Resene Timber Design Awards.
A tiny family bach located at the mouth of Otago’s Taieri River and an aquatic centre on Wellington’s Kapiti Coast have been named joint supreme winners of the 2014 NZ Wood Resene Timber Design Awards at a ceremony last night (Tuesday 18 March).
The 55sq m Taieri Bach was designed by Regan Johnston of Mason & Wales, Dunedin and took only eight weeks to build. In their deliberation, the judges noted: “It is a beautiful small house, made entirely appropriate for its use and setting in the landscape, using what are often perceived as low-value materials in their raw form to provide a stunning harmony of simplicity and sophistication.”
In contrast, the Coastlands Aquatic Centre has a soaring 2000sq m double-curved transparent roof. Designed by Toby Mason while working for LHT Design of Hastings, it is supported by a dramatic grid of curved laminated timber beams. “This provides a light, warm and beautiful space for the pool,” said the judges. “The building demonstrates that timber is not only an appropriate durable material for a humid pool environment, but that with good design it can provide light weight elegant structures. This is an outstanding example of contemporary timber technology.”
Other category winners include Wellington’s Cable Car Terminus (Commercial Architectural Excellence); public toilets in Eastbourne, Lower Hutt (Exterior Innovation); Auckland’s Milse dessert restaurant (Interior Innovation); a native wood panelled home in Auckland’s Point Chevalier (Indigenous Timber Showcase); and the Bougainville Library, in Arawa, Bougainville (Outdoor Infrastructure).
The awards, which have been running since 1975, were judged this year by Timber Design Society president David Scheibmair, leading architect David Sheppard and MBIE chief architect Duncan Joiner.
For more information on all of the finalists, visit the NZ Wood website.
