Fiona Wycks and Anna Crighton05:00, May 29 2021
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Severely damaged by the Kaikōura earthquake, Montrose Station Homestead was designed by architect Cecil Wood at a time when he was considered the leading domestic architect in Canterbury.
After Covid-19 restrictions last year saw the Canterbury Heritage Awards diverge from their usual biennial format, the awards return on June 11. Fiona Wycks, of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, and historian Anna Crighton highlight some finalists. In Canterbury and Christchurch the 10-year timeframe, symbolic as a clear demarcation between pre and post 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, reveals an optimism which has inspired us to relish and celebrate our cultural heritage.
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Stone walls and raw timber cladding on the Port Hills House by Philip Kennedy Associates Architects are in keeping with the rugged site.
Rugged building sites with spectacular views usually come with high exposure to wind, which can make for interesting architectural solutions. Port Hills House by Philip Kennedy Associates Architects, which has won a Housing Award in the 2021 Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Canterbury Awards, has the perfect solution – an extra-large walled courtyard. And what is most remarkable – the stone was excavated onsite. The house, which took 12 years to complete with tweaks along the way, wowed the awards jury. They described the block overlooking Governors Bay and Lyttelton Harbour as “exposed and dramatic”.
Canterbury architecture awards: Musterer s hut, micro-brewery amongst winners
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Shark House by First Light Studio. Photo / Dennis Radermacher
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Thirty-one of Canterbury s buildings, new and old, have been celebrated in the Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects Canterbury Awards.
The Musterers Hut by C Nott Architects took out an award for small project architecture at the ceremony on Wednesday.
Inspired by the historic workers shelters dotted across much of the country s landscape, the hut blends into its tussocked Mackenzie Basin site, overlooking Takapō/Lake Tekapo.
Musterers Hut by C Nott Architects. Photo / Marina Mathews Photography
But suddenly, the small pod popped up about 100 metres from them.
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An orca got so close, it dived under the kayak just in time. “It was a pure fluke, we were in the right place at the right time,” he said. “We had probably about 10 minutes, where they didn’t seem to be taking any notice of us. They were milling around the same sort of area that we were, they were backwards and forwards and upwards and down.” Watson said the moment was “pretty special”, as one of the orcas swam right up to the group, diving under a kayak just in time.