Sound designs win awards

Okiwa Bay House, Tennent + Brown Architects;

The annual architectural awards programme is run by the regional branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.

Out of the 13 awards presented, Marlborough architecture scooped four:

The Brancott Estate Heritage Centre (commercial), designed by Fearon Hay Architects;

Cloudy Bay Shack (commercial), Paul Rolfe Architects and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects;

Okiwa Bay House (housing), Tennent + Brown Architects;

Wairau Valley House (housing), Parsonson Architects.

Fearon Hay interior designer Rufus Knight said that accommodating the exposed and elevated piece of land on which the Brancott Heritage Trust Centre sits in the design had been a challenge.

"The design that we were trying to get away from was placing a glass box on a hill," he said. "So, there was a lot of excavation and digging and actually stitching or inserting it into the land."

Tennent + Brown Architects design director Hugh Tennent said their company faced a similar challenge when designing Okiwa Bay House at Anakiwa in the Marlborough Sounds.

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Sound designs win awards