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NIWA Addition
Angela Foster's addition to Wilson's NIWA buildings at Greta Point in Wellington.
This building works extraordinarily well in the context of the heavily structured concrete buildings that form the surrounding campus. This appears as a lightweight jewel that contributes to the overall composition of the campus through material contrast, yet consistency in terms of its honest expression of materials and construction, and, the axial and circulatory extension of relationships set up in the original design (with the timber outbuildings) - features, which to me, make it every bit as brutalist as the original buildings.
Another view (in colour), here:
NIWA Addition
Angela Foster's addition to Wilson's NIWA buildings at Greta Point in Wellington.
This building works extraordinarily well in the context of the heavily structured concrete buildings that form the surrounding campus. This appears as a lightweight jewel that contributes to the overall composition of the campus through material contrast, yet consistency in terms of its honest expression of materials and construction, and, the axial and circulatory extension of relationships set up in the original design (with the timber outbuildings) - features, which to me, make it every bit as brutalist as the original buildings.
Another view (in colour), here: