Best Kiwi architecture celebrated in NZIA awards
For several years, the NZIA Architecture Awards have bemoaned the lack of high-quality multi-unit developments, but this year that all changed.
The winner of the Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing, announced at a special event in Queenstown on Saturday, November 9, was Architectus for the multi-unit housing development, Wynyard Central East 2.
In announcing the award the judges said the development reflects a very unusual conjunction of client ambition and architectural talent: "More residences could have been squeezed onto the site, but it's better for everyone that they weren't."
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