Best Design Awards Winners
2023
Spatial Category – Award Winners
The Rain Gauge
Isabella Muirhead. Tutors: Dr Jeremy Smith, Chris Barton. The term "didactic" refers to something that is intended to teach or instruct. In the context of architecture, didactic design involves...
Moving Mountains
Grayson Croucher. Tutors: Dorita Hannah. The term "didactic" refers to something that is intended to teach or instruct. In the context of architecture, didactic design involves creating spaces,...
Haven for Māngere Youth
Vincent Xiao. Tutors: Lama Tone. Standing across the street, onlookers would be surprised to be told that this project is a youth centre. Presented with a conceptual brief to design a centre for...
2022
Spatial Category – 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...
2021
Spatial Category – Award Winners
The Forgotten Void : A Reversal of the Auckland Urban Hierarchy
Matthew Connolly. Tutors: Jeremy Smith, Kim Hyunh. This project is urban infill architecture between two large existing buildings in High Street, Auckland. It looks to reverse the current urban...
The Wood Pavilion
Leo Zhu, Dorien Viliamu, Daniel Fennell, Wenhan (Gerry) JiThe pavilion rests on a gentle slope, with its wings spread, surveying the woodlands over the lake. It’s a quiet participant of the...
Ngā Reo o Te Whenua
Isabella Muirhead. Tutors: Anthony Hoete. Designed for Project Island Song (comprising DoC, Ngati Kuta and Patukeha hapu, and the Guardians of the Bay of Islands), Ngā Reo o Te Whenua responds to...