Best Design Awards Winners 2022
Spatial Category – Gold Award Winners
Down To Earth: Adaptability & Collapse in the Urban Realm
Isabella Muirhead. Tutors: Dr Jeremy Smith. Over the past two hundred years, the corner of Shortland and High street has borne witness to four iterations of building - each larger and less...
The Outsiders: The Journey of Lost and Found
Tzu Shou (Ferrari) Huang. "Both the theatre and urban space are places of representation, assemblage, and exchange between actors and spectators, between the drama and the stage set. Finding their...
MIKA
Sufyaan Chuttur. My brief was to create architecture funded from a non-traditional funding system and present it in a non-traditional format. I chose scavenging and re-use of materials as my...
UP
Leith Macfarlane. UP is a beautiful and helpful home designed for Sam, a wheelchair user who leads an independent life and has a deep love of wheelchair basketball. Design principles underpinning...
Spatial Category – Silver Award Winners
Hoehepa Earth School: Love food, hate waste
Ami Ishibashi. Tutors: Michael Milojevic. The byproduct of one process is the feed product of the next; this holistic ecological approach to architecture forms the basis of this project. Link to...
Taurapa
Kanghyun Kim. Tutors: Lama Tone. Ascending skyward towards the Rangi, the Taurapa sits upon the stern of the waka, standing tall in all its glory, gently curving as it tapers, a symbol of...
Te Wai Māreparepa – The Rippling Waters
Grayson Croucher. Tutor: Lama Tone. Pacific voyages, upon their journeys to Aotearoa, faced many different challenges. However, they were masters of the ocean, capable of traversing large bodies...
Spatial Category – Bronze Award Winners
Rā
Kim Mi Yeoh. Tutors: Gregor Hoheisel. Rā is a business hotel with corporate conference and event facilities, targeting the business clientele of the Marine Industry and beyond. While the name's...