Project Credits
Client
Waikato Institute of Technology
Date Completed
2011
Sector
Learning Environments
Awards
2011 NZIA Awards
// Waikato, Bay of Plenty
// Interior Architecture
2011 NZIA Awards
// Waikato, Bay of Plenty
// Heritage
2011 RLB, Property Council NZ
// Excellence
Project Governance
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Project Lead
Brian Squair
Design Team
A celebration of history for a forward-thinking institute saw Chow:Hill’s transformation of Wintec’s signature F-block recognised with both regional and national awards.
Commanding a central city corner of Hamilton’s CBD is the historic Wintec House, an almost century-old brick building, once a former teaching block on the tertiary institute’s central city campus.
Originally home to the Hamilton Technical College, Wintec House has a Heritage New Zealand Category B rating, a status that Chow:Hill needed to protect during the building’s redesign in 2010.
By adopting a careful design narrative, which preserved the building’s history and retained the historic façade (a requirement because of the building’s officially recognised heritage status), Chow:Hill transformed the outdated teaching block with restricted community interaction into a 3350m² three-level mixed-use development, incorporating a high-quality learning environment, event space and commercial premises.
The transformation of the existing building into a new central city events destination involved an innovative integration of seismic upgrades, carefully designed in harmony with the existing building fabric, to retain a sense of the building’s history while providing the facility with a new lease of life.
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A celebration of history for a forward-thinking institute saw Chow:Hill’s transformation of Wintec’s signature F-block recognised with both regional and national awards.
Commanding a central city corner of Hamilton’s CBD is the historic Wintec House, an almost century-old brick building, once a former teaching block on the tertiary institute’s central city campus.
Originally home to the Hamilton Technical College, Wintec House has a Heritage New Zealand Category B rating, a status that Chow:Hill needed to protect during the building’s redesign in 2010.
By adopting a careful design narrative, which preserved the building’s history and retained the historic façade (a requirement because of the building’s officially recognised heritage status), Chow:Hill transformed the outdated teaching block with restricted community interaction into a 3350m² three-level mixed-use development, incorporating a high-quality learning environment, event space and commercial premises.
The transformation of the existing building into a new central city events destination involved an innovative integration of seismic upgrades, carefully designed in harmony with the existing building fabric, to retain a sense of the building’s history while providing the facility with a new lease of life.
Project Credits
Client
Wintec House, Wintec City Campus
Status
2011
Project Type
Learning Environments
Awards
2011 NZIA Awards
// Waikato, Bay of Plenty
// Interior Architecture
2011 NZIA Awards
// Waikato, Bay of Plenty
// Heritage
2011 RLB, Property Council NZ
// Excellence
A celebration of history for a forward-thinking institute saw Chow:Hill’s transformation of Wintec’s signature F-block recognised with both regional and national awards.
Commanding a central city corner of Hamilton’s CBD is the historic Wintec House, an almost century-old brick building, once a former teaching block on the tertiary institute’s central city campus.
Originally home to the Hamilton Technical College, Wintec House has a Heritage New Zealand Category B rating, a status that Chow:Hill needed to protect during the building’s redesign in 2010.
By adopting a careful design narrative, which preserved the building’s history and retained the historic façade (a requirement because of the building’s officially recognised heritage status), Chow:Hill transformed the outdated teaching block with restricted community interaction into a 3350m² three-level mixed-use development, incorporating a high-quality learning environment, event space and commercial premises.
The transformation of the existing building into a new central city events destination involved an innovative integration of seismic upgrades, carefully designed in harmony with the existing building fabric, to retain a sense of the building’s history while providing the facility with a new lease of life.
Project Credits
Client
Wintec House, Wintec City Campus
Status
2011
Project Type
Learning Environments
Awards
2011 NZIA Awards
// Waikato, Bay of Plenty
// Interior Architecture
2011 NZIA Awards
// Waikato, Bay of Plenty
// Heritage
2011 RLB, Property Council NZ
// Excellence
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