Award for design over 20 years

Press, 5 December 1985, Page 57

Award for design over 20 years

An award was presented by the New Zealand Institute of Architects to the architects, Hall and Mackenzie, for their contribution to some buildings on the University of Canterbury campus over a 20-year period.

The architects, Hall and Mackenzie, helped in the construction of seven buildings over this period. These include the regis-

try, computer block, the School of Forestry, the South Island Forestry Research Centre, the School of Fine Arts, the warehouse and recreation centre complex.

“I think the most interesting part about the whole thing is that over 20 years of work the same group of consultants were called back together almost a dozen times to the same site and by the same client to work on different projects,” said Mr Keith Mackenzie, of Hall and Mackenzie.

The institute recognised that “by paying careful attention to the surroundings of each building, by the restrained use of neutral materials, and by employing

a theme of varying but complementary additive building form, allowing for change, Hall and Mackenzie helped create an environment which is greater than the sum of its parts.” The School of Forestry which Hall and Mackenzie constructed was reopened at the new Ham campus in 1970.

There had been a School of Forestry in the 1920 s but it had not survived the depression of the 19305. The registry opened in 1974.