Buildings that belong to a congregation, an iwi, a country or a town, rather than to one owner. The work differs from commercial architecture in one way that matters: there is rarely a single client in the room, and a design agreed with the wrong group gets redone.
To reflect the Church`s calm and strong religious-based values, this building feels permanent, a building you could trust and rely upon, with a sense of honesty and simple understated elegance: Heavy masonry precast panels plunge into the earth.
The openness of the traditional Falae and transparency through the adjacent office building at ground level provides clear sight-lines that reinforce the legibility of entry points.
‘A Third Way’ is our proposition to leave the earthquake-damaged Christchurch Cathedral as a preserved ruin and which would allow for a new purpose-built cathedral to suit the modern requirements of the Anglican Church on another site.
