default Palmers Beach house, Aotea Great Barrier, short-listed in March 2025 for an Auckland architecture award. Photo / Chris Morton
default Palmers Beach house, Aotea Great Barrier, short-listed in March 2025 for an Auckland architecture award. Photo / Chris Morton
Architects who designed new buildings in the Wynyard Quarter, on Waiheke Island, for the University of Auckland and elsewhere are on a shortlist for the best work in the Auckland area.
Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects released a list of 56 projects eligible for this year’s Aucklandarchitecture awards.
Hotels, toilets, new houses, additions and alterations, interiors, apartments, new schools and work on heritage buildings are categories.
Guy Tarrant headed the jury panel with Jasper van der Lingen of Sheppard & Rout, Elspeth Gray of Roberts Gray Architects, Andrea Bell of Bell + Co and lay juror Katrina Keshaw.
The winners will be announced on Wednesday, April 30.
3 Te Kehu Way by Woods Bagot and Peddle Thorp in association
Pohutukawa Roots by John Allen is an art work commissioned for the back wall of the seating area in the porte cochure at the new Horizon by SkyCity hotel in Auckland. Photo / Michael Craig
Education
Mt Albert Grammar School – Nairn Block by ASC Architects
Pukekohe High School Learning Block by DCA Architects of Transformation
AUT Tukutuku by Jasmax
Manutara – Murrays Bay Primary School by Warren and Mahoney Architects
Light Catcher, a Grey Lynn project by Jose Gutierrez
Additions and alterations to this Grey Lynn house were short-listed for a 2025 Auckland architecture award. The project was called "light catcher" by architect Jose Gutierrez. Photo / Sam Hartnett
Water View House by Llewellyn Architecture
Lava Flow by Pac Studio
19Q by SGA – Strachan Group Architects
St Heliers House by Stevens Lawson Architects
Hapua by studio LWA
Northland Point House by Sumich Chaplin Architects
Horizon by SkyCity by Warren and Mahoney Architects and Moller Architects
Onyx Bar inside the new Horizon by SkyCity hotel in Auckland - part of Gordon Moller's art work Transcendance can be seen on the wall behind the bar. Photo / Michael Craig
Small project architecture
Washworld by Lloyd Hartley Architects
Karanga Changing Sheds by Pac Studio
Small House in Rocky Bay by Vaughn McQuarrie
So Fresh, So Clean, a new home on a modest budget by W3
Anne Gibson has been the Herald’s property editor for 25 years, written books and covered property extensively here and overseas.
