100 ‘rooms of solitude’, a plan to create a new East River walkway in New York featuring a disused aircraft carrier and the integration of the earthquake-ravaged ruins of a Lyttelton convent into a new structure are the three diverse winners in this year’s AAA Cavalier Bremworth Unbuilt Architecture Awards.

This year’s judging panel included Kerry Hill from Kerry Hill Architects in Singapore, Andrew Patterson of Patterson Associates and Nat Cheshire from Cheshire Architects.

The awards were held at the St Paul St Gallery in Auckland last evening.  For for the first time in the event’s 20 year history, the work will now be open for public viewing.  The gallery will showcase work until Sunday 20 November, 10am to 5pm on Friday 18th, and then 12pm-4pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Photo Gallery of Kerry’s Lecture, the Awards Night & Exhibition

Open Conceptual – Winner:
Graeme Burgess, Michael Strange, Vance Bentley, Sibyl Bloomfield, Burgess & Treep Architects for
A DESIGN FOR THE EAST RIVER BETWEEN 38 & 60TH STREET NYC

Citation:

There was a boldness to this project that the judges responded to.  It is an example of the type of creativity that needs to be applied to the Auckland waterfront.  Its message of peace is right for NY and illustrates the recycling of a decommissioned aircraft carrier is a highly imaginative solution.  The interlinking components are no less strong.

Open Conceptual – Runner Up:
Jonathan Gibb for The Green Cage

Citation:

Beautifully evocative project with a balance of delicacy and robustness.  A place that is haunting and imagines a different potential for an abandoned space.  Demonstrates a collection of highly  liveable spaces in an otherwise tough and unused environment

Open Conceptual –  Highly Commended:
Fraser Moore, Mark Craven & Kenneth Li, Olympic Pavilion

CItation:

An easy grace in the way this pavilion folds itself out of the square and in the landscape-like nature of its approach.

Open Conceptual – Commended:

Mike Hartley & Ben Lloyd; My Dragon

Sean Flanagan; Playhouse

 

Open Work-in-Progress – Winner:
Gerald Melling, Melling Morse for St Mary’s Convent

Citation:

The design of this house is an elegant solution in recycling the ravaged remains of St Mary’s Convent.  The proposal displays great clarity and maturity in planning, proportions, and materiality.  The jury sincerely hopes this project comes to fruition.

Open Work in Progress – Runner Up:
RTA Studio

Citation:

The jury commends the appropriate size and simplicity of this small commercial development.  Set in one of Auckland’s best loved retail precincts, its fine human scale and market arrangement respects and develops this neighbourhood to a new level. 

 

Open Work in Progress – Commended

Barry Copeland, Copeland Associates Architects; Auckland Harbour Bridge Walkway

 

Student Winner:
Yumian (Dino) Chai
100 Rooms of Solitude

Citation:

An intelligent, experimental, poetic, universal, endlessly inventive, delicate and sensitive project that fully expressed the potential of the award and demonstrated a maturity that stood out for the judges.

Student – Runner Up:
Clayton Prest
Tipu Spiritual Retreat

Citation:

Well presented, romantic, haunting project that is easy to believe.   Demonstrates a credible NZ typology and references a refreshing relationship between the natural and the manmade. Judges enjoyed the clarity and simplicity of presentation.

Student – Highly Commended:
Claudia Weber
Implementing Permaculture into a Refugee Camp

Citation:

A very humane, generous and self-effacing scheme that demonstrates the practical service that architecture can give to even a simple life.  It’s easy to understand that this could create real change and benefit.  It exhibits an architectural humility and appropriateness that could easily be applied to existing situations.

Student – Commended

Erxin Shang; A ‘Pulpitumic’ school

Raukura Turei; Looking Up Skirts

Anthea Du; Carbon Negative Architecture

Melanie Pau; Repopulating Chch Central City

John Kim; Weak Architecture

Benita Simati Kumar; Fale Va: How a Samoan ritual activates the construction of space

Jessica Mentis; Unfolding the Helen Clarke Prime Ministerial Library

For further information, please contact:  Desiree Keown, Marketing Manager, Cavalier Bremworth, dkeown@cavbrem.co.nz