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Blyth Performing Arts Centre
Blyth Performing Arts Centre
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
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Other Projects by Dorita Hannah (Theatre Architecture Designer/Planner)
Blyth Performing Arts Centre
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
This venue was designed by Stevens Lawson Architects (Auckland, New Zealand) as a highly tuned concert chamber and assembly hall, capable of encouraging and incorporating interdisciplinary creative practices (including sound, light, media, dance and theatre) while offering a state-of-the art music venue to the larger community. The auditorium’s sculptural architecture deviated from conventional forms with its angled walls, asymmetric undulating ceiling and window to the exterior; requiring careful negotiation and orchestration with technical requirements.
The building was favourably reviewed for its “sculptural form … being a large organism rather than a box … the architectural solution we experience here is the best option for the many different school purposes and times of day in which the auditorium will be used” (Architecture NZ: July 2015, #4). It gained multiple honours, including a 2015 Designers Institute DINZ ‘Gold Pin’ for Public and Institutional Spaces and two 2015 NZ Institute of Architects Awards for educational category and the top award – the NZ Architecture Medal Architecture – cited as a “beautifully planned and executed building in which technical as well as architectural issues have been resolved masterfully…. On this project, client and architect reached for the sublime – and they got there.”
The building was favourably reviewed for its “sculptural form … being a large organism rather than a box … the architectural solution we experience here is the best option for the many different school purposes and times of day in which the auditorium will be used” (Architecture NZ: July 2015, #4). It gained multiple honours, including a 2015 Designers Institute DINZ ‘Gold Pin’ for Public and Institutional Spaces and two 2015 NZ Institute of Architects Awards for educational category and the top award – the NZ Architecture Medal Architecture – cited as a “beautifully planned and executed building in which technical as well as architectural issues have been resolved masterfully…. On this project, client and architect reached for the sublime – and they got there.”
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