A Papamoa business has taken out a top prize at the NZ Wood Timber Design Award.
Ambienti Architects won this year's People's Choice Award, decided by online vote, for their Papamoa-based sales pavilion and community centre.
The awards were announced at a function at Te Papa, Wellington, on Monday night.
Sponsors included NZ
Wood, Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts, Timberbond, Kop-Coat and the Timber Design Society.
Ambienti Architects joins a host of other businesses in the award accolades, which were judged by structural engineer Ross Davison, builder David Brown and architect Elvon Young. A visitors' centre at Waitomo Caves took out three of the top prize.
Winning the Interior Fit-out Award went to the new Supreme Court Building in Wellington designed by Warren and Mahoney.
Another highly commended entry was the "Folding Whare", a simple, collapsible one room emergency shelter for use in disaster recovery designed by Callum Dowie in his final year at Unitec's architectural school.
The Scott's Landing beach residence by Stephenson and Turner Architects won the Residential Architectural Excellence Award for their design of a beach house at Mahurangi Harbour, north of Auckland.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's multi-purpose building in Wallaceville, Wellington, also designed by Stephenson and Turner Architects, won the Sustainability Award.
Birkenhead's library and civic centre designed by Archoffice won the Cladding Building Envelope Award.
