New Zealand Gold Medal Awards

Patrick Clifford, Architectus, is New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) 2014 Gold Medal Winner. The NZIA has published a delightful book to mark the award, view PDF here .

Academic Towers, University of Canterbury, southern edge of the Sciences West Precinct

Patrick Clifford taught at the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture, been a member of Auckland’s Urban Design Panel, and served as President of the New Zealand Institute of Architects. His design leadership at Architectus has established the firm’s record over the past three decades to meet the high standards that Patrick and his fellow founding partners, Malcolm Bowes and Michael Thomson, have always set for themselves and their practice. The practice’s history is studded with exemplary, type-testing projects including the Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences Building at the University of Canterbury (1998), pictured above. Patrick has also made a case for architecture in public and political forums. The move of Architectus into the planning and designing of public places and spaces is exemplified by Karanga Plaza (2012) and the Wynyard Quarter Design Framework and typifies the practice’s outward-looking orientation and civic aspirations.

Marsden Cross Heritage Park, Oihi, Bay of Islands

The 2013 Gold Award winner was Pip Cheshire, now the current President of the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA). Pip’s architectural career spans three and half decades and his design skills are a credit to projects such as Q Theatre, Auckland (2002-10), Britomart (2003-), the University of Auckland Marine Laboratory, Leigh (2004-11), and Marsden Cross Heritage Park, Bay of Islands (2004-]. A further credit to his achievements must also include his heritage work in Antarctica, and his pro-bono work much closer to home; his teaching, and his mentoring of generations of young architects; his writing, publishing, lecturing and presenting. The equally delightful book published by NZIA to mark the 2013 award of the Gold Medal to Pip Cheshire, can be viewed on the PDF here.

Pip Cheshire, current NZIA President and NZIA 2013 Gold Medal winner