10 CAMBRIDGE TERRACE
WELLINGTON
NZIA Regional Award, 2000
NZIA Branch Award, 1999

“It is refreshing to see a commercial development show real daring and innovation in its composition and material choices… The top floor studio is simply breathtaking and the rear elevated courtyard a surprising oasis”, NZIA Awards Jury, 2000.

New retail space, a photographic studio and offices were inserted and added onto a turn of the century, heritage building. Simple, balanced forms were used in a contemporary language that referred back to the original building. A lantern, composed of compressed sheet and floor to ceiling glazing, penetrates the parapet, connecting the new into the existing. Adjacent to the lantern, the top-floor glass and aluminium addition has been detailed simply and elegantly; sympathetic to the older architecture.