Melview Developments’ Quadrant hotel on Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland, and the Holiday Inn, Wellington, have both won a design award, from the New Zealand Institute of Architects Resene Local Awards for Architecture in the hospitality and tourism category.
The Quadrant was designed by Clark Brown Architects, and Wellington’s Holiday Inn was designed by Studio Pacific Architecture. There were more than 300 entries. Judges for the awards said The Quadrant was “thoughtfully planned using the courtyard to articulate two buildings on the site. It is delightful and conceptionally engaged. This rethinking of high-rise fabric is a welcome presence on the city’s skyline.”
The Holiday Inn, Wellington’s newest and largest hotel, was praised by the judges for “making full use of its narrow inner city site and the angled orientation of room in a plan which maximizes individual views over the city, hills and sea.”
In June this year The Quadrant also took The Property Council Award of Excellence for multi-unit residential. Quadrant Auckland is part of Melview’s Quadrant Hotel Group. The company will develop a second Quadrant in Queenstown. Works have begun on the Kawarau Falls Station development where the second Quadrant will be built along side Westin Queenstown and Intercontinental Queenstown hotels, in a four year project expected to be worth more than $1 billion, comprising more than 1100 units.
