{"id":985,"date":"2026-02-18T23:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/?p=985"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:22:35","slug":"nz-architectural-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"NZ Architectural Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nzia.co.nz\/awards\/national\/award-detail\/11984\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>2024 New Zealand Architecture Awards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winner &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Small Project Architecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jury&#8217;s comment:&nbsp;This delightful transformation of a small community church shows what can be done with a big imagination and a collaborative spirit. St Hilda\u2019s was built in 1910 as a timber structure with an aspirational brick front to the street. When faced with earthquake-strengthening the brick fa\u00e7ade, the congregation and First Light Studio undertook the brave move to demolish it and extend and open the church to the street with a glazed, laminated-timber arched bay window. St Hilda\u2019s feels utterly contemporary and welcoming by day and night, thanks to a beautifully designed, folded patterned metal screen that modulates privacy and light with a magical effect inside and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlightstudio.co.nz\/projects\/st-hildas\">First Light Studio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-930x620.png 930w, https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 New Zealand Architecture Awards Winner &#8211;&nbsp;Small Project Architecture Jury&#8217;s comment:&nbsp;This delightful transformation of a small community church shows what can be done with a big imagination and a collaborative spirit. St Hilda\u2019s was built in 1910 as a timber structure with an aspirational brick front to the street. When faced with earthquake-strengthening the brick&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/?p=985\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NZ Architectural Awards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandbayanglican.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}