Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZ Institute of Architects' Auckland area awards: Te Arai dune house a winner
Those designs are also by award-winning Monk Mackenzie.
That planned new home is to be built near the $200 million South Pacific golfing paradise.
NZIA awards tonight also went to Hobsonville Point's new $150 million Catalina Bay apartments, the SeaLink Wynyard Ferry Terminal in the CBD and the interior of new hotel Horizon by SkyCity.
All up, 36 awards were announced.
Jury convenor Guy Tarrant said: 'This year's awards highlight the value architects bring to projects in response to constraints of site, size and budget'.
'These were all drivers for exceptional outcomes and a testament to the ability of architects to turn challenges into opportunities.'
Winning projects also highlighted architects' continued commitment to exploring affordable housing solutions, featuring intelligent planning and innovative uses of new and sustainable materials, Tarrant said.
He cited the Pocket Houses project by Dorrington Atcheson Architects. The architects had come up with a viable backyard housing model that challenged accepted norms of multi-unit housing design, he said.
The Catalina Bay Apartments were praised for using the protected view shaft of a nearby trig station as the catalyst for a fragmented, stepped form that elegantly engaged its waterfront setting.
Category award winners
Commercial
RTA Studio by RTA Studio and Jack McKinney Architects in association
SeaLink Wynyard Ferry Terminal by Architectus
303 Remuera Rd by Fearon Hay Architects
Horizon by SkyCity: Warren and Mahoney Architects and Moller Architects
Education
Pukekohe High School Learning Block by DCA Architects of Transformation
AUT Tukutuku by Jasmax
Manutara — Murrays Bay Primary School by Warren and Mahoney Architects
Hiwa campus: University of Auckland Recreation and Wellness Centre by Warren and Mahoney Architects and MJMA Architecture & Design Toronto
Heritage
St Mary's Old Convent Chapel Restoration by Salmond Reed Architects
Grey Lynn Public Conveniences by Matthews & Matthews Architects
Housing
Onetangi Cliff House on Waiheke Island by Herbst Architects
Palimpsest House at Te Arai by Monk MacKenzie
Sand Boxes at Piha by Herbst Maxcey Metropolitan Architects
Palmers Beach House Aotea Great Barrier by Leuschke Group Architects
Kawau Island House by Novak+Middleton
Muriwai Farmhouse by Mercer and Mercer Architects
Sefton House by Ashton Mitchell
Prospect House by MAUD
Bush Block by Patchwork Architecture
Housing: alterations, additions
Light Catcher by Jose Gutierrez
Wainamu at Te Henga Bethells Beach by Bureaux
Lava Flow by Pac Studio
St Heliers House by Stevens Lawson Architects
19Q on Waiheke Island by SGA Strachan Group Architects
Alberon by Jack McKinney Architects
Housing: multi-unit
Catalina Bay Apartments by Architectus
One Saint Stephens in Parnell by MAP
Pocket Houses at Avenue Rd by Dorrington Atcheson Architects
Lightbox by Novak+Middleton
Interior architecture
InterContinental Hotel Auckland by Warren and Mahoney Architects
Horizon by SkyCity by Warren and Mahoney Architects and Moller Architects
Deloitte Auckland by Fisher Partners and Custance Associates
Small project architecture
Washworld by Lloyd Hartley Architects
Karanga Changing Sheds by Pac Studio
So Fresh, So Clean by W3
Enduring architecture
The awards panel was Guy Tarrant, Andrea Bell from bell + co in Dunedin, Katrina Keshaw from Keshaw McArthur, Elspeth Gray from Roberts Gray Architects, and Jasper van der Lingen from Sheppard & Rout in Christchurch.
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