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City Gallery Entrance
This project principally involved alterations to the entrance and foyer of the City Gallery. Additionally, we undertook some work associated with cladding of the egress stair and lift towers, and alterations to the main stair to improve safety. The primary objective was to make arrival to the...
Pataka
The challenge for this project was to transform an existing 1970’s bulk warehouse/ office building into a contemporary art gallery and museum for Porirua City. The building already housed the Porirua City Library, a performance space for the local Whitireia Polytechnic and Page 90 gallery....
Wesley Church
As a fine example of 19th century timber architecture, Wellington’s Wesley Methodist Church is a category 1 listed heritage building. Blending Gothic and Classical features and augmented by the two mature Pohutukawa trees in its forecourt, the church has a commanding presence on Taranaki...
Wellington College Memorial Hall
Our competition winning proposal was for the renovation of the existing hall. It proposed lifting the existing roof to add mezzanine levels, circulation redesign and replacement of the façade. Following structural analysis of the existing hall, weathertightness issues and construction cost...
Hutt City Town Hall and Events Centre
The completed Hutt City Events Centre is the final element in the redevelopment of a revitalised Civic Centre for Lower Hutt. The project follows the recent completion of the Dowse Square, the redevelopment of the council administration building and the surrounding Riddiford Gardens. A...
Hutt City Administration Building
The Hutt City Council Administration Building Refurbishment Project is part of a larger project delivering a revitalised Civic Centre to Lower Hutt. The project was triggered by the need to address the seismic-prone status of the Civic Centre’s buildings. The refurbishment is a...
City Gallery
wellington 1993 The City Gallery occupies the old 1930’s Wellington Central Library building located in the Civic Square. The overriding architectural issue was to allow the history of the building – both physical and emotional – to be recognised despite its new...
City Gallery Alterations
wellington 2006-2009 We have completed an addition to the building to accommodate two additional galleries and an auditorium, allowing the existing cinema to be removed to make space for a third additional gallery within the original building. The addition is clad in an open metal...
Expressions
upper hutt 1999-2003 Expressions is the name of the civic theatre and art gallery complex at Upper Hutt Civic Centre. architecture + was first commissioned in 1996 to design a stand alone theatre and art gallery complex for a Community Arts Centre Trust on a vacant site opposite the...
Street Corner Canopies
wellington 2000-2003 We were commissioned by Wellington City Council to design pedestrian shelters as part of a larger initiative to encourage use of commuter transportation by improving the pedestrian experience. Work on the bus terminus and Railway Station forecourt were concurrent...
Wairarapa Arts Centre Project
masterton 1998 Five practices were selected to prepare competition designs for this project. The brief was to redevelop the existing site that included four buildings. Of these the two most significant were an existing purpose built gallery constructed in 1969 and an old Wesley Methodist...
Te Wharewaka
Te Wharewaka is the realisation of the desire of local iwi Taranaki Whanui ki te Upoko o te ika to restore a Maori presence on the water’s edge of Wellington harbour - a presence which has been notably absent since the 1880’s when the nearby Te Aro Pa had a harbour frontage. Whilst...