Patrick Clifford receives architectures Gold Medal

Patrick Clifford receives architectures Gold Medal

The New Zealand Institute of Architects has conferred its top honour, the Gold Medal for career achievement, on Patrick Clifford, a director of the Auckland firm Architectus.

Under the design leadership of Patrick Clifford, Architectus has established a reputation for outstanding performance, the Institute of Architects says. There is an understated confidence to Architectus work. The practices buildings take their place in the cityscape with urbane and assured authority, and they possess a rare architectural quality they make the buildings around them look better.

Ian Athfield, the doyen of New Zealand architects, says Clifford is hugely respected within his profession.

Patrick is the most consummate architect I know, Athfield says. He is extremely consistent. He conducts his office and he does it very, very well.

Clifford, together with his long-time colleagues Malcolm Bowes and Michael Thomson and more recently Carsten Auer, is responsible for a series of highly acclaimed buildings in most of the areas in which New Zealand architects practice.

The firms record includes civic buildings such as Waitakere Civic Centre and New Lynn Station in Auckland; university buildings such as the new Campus Hub at Victoria University of Wellington (with Athfield Architects); school buildings such as the St Peters College Middle School in Newmarket and St Cuthberts College Performing Arts Centre in Epsom; sports building such as the West Stand at Jade Stadium, Christchurch (with Athfield Architects), and gymnasiums at Auckland Grammar School and St Kentigern School; commercial buildings such as Aucklands Telecom Central; and residential buildings such as Trinity Apartments in Parnell and Te Puni Village at Victoria University.

Architectus has also been active in urban design and planning, having designed the framework for Wynyard Quarter on the Auckland waterfront and several streetscapes in the city.

In conjunction with the Australian practices with which it is aligned under the Architectus brand, it has latterly developed expertise in the specialist area of law court design. Architectus was a finalist in the competition for the International Criminal Courts in The Hague, and designed the new Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law in Brisbane.

The record really does speak for itself, the Institute of Architects says. In the context of New Zealand architecture Cliffords batting average is Bradmanesque.

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Patrick Clifford receives architectures Gold Medal