Iona College boasts two new buildings that are among the best in the country.
The Havelock North School will have two of its structures vying for the 2015 New Zealand Architecture Awards.
The awards cover all building types designed by the country's architects. Three of the shortlisted buildings are inHawke's Bay: Monica Loves Caf in Napier, and the Information Resource Centre and Blyth Performing Arts Centre at Iona.
The Blyth Performing Arts Centre, Iona College.
There are 46 buildings shortlisted in the awards programme that finds New Zealand's top buildings. They range from house alterations to a police station and from traffic interchanges to an art gallery. Buck House, a celebrated home in Havelock North designed by the late Sir Ian Athfield, is also nominated in the Enduring Architecture Award, a category that acknowledges buildings that have given excellent service for at least 25 years.
Auckland architect Pete Bossley said the range and quality of the projects on the shortlist was impressive and inspiring.
The Information Resource Centre, Iona College, Havelock North.
"It was tough enough deciding what to leave off the shortlist, and it won't be easy choosing the buildings that will get a New Zealand Architecture Award."
Of the shortlisted buildings, 19 are residential, 11 of them new houses and four of them alterations or additions.
Also four multi-unit residential developments are also on the shortlist - a welcome sign, Bossley said, that this type of much-needed building is getting design attention.
The jury, which includes Bossley, Nelson architect Jeremy Smith, Wellington architect Sharon Jansen, and Queensland architect Damien Eckersley, will visit the shortlisted projects this month.
The 2015 New Zealand Architecture Awards will be announced at a function at Te Papa, Wellington, on October 30.
At the event, for the first time, New Zealand Architecture Award-winning buildings in the categories of housing, commercial and public architecture will be considered for Signature Awards named after three influential New Zealand architects - Sir Miles Warren, the late John Scott and and Sir Ian Athfield.
The overall winner in the Architecture Awards will receive the New Zealand Architecture Medal.
