2012 Supreme Award winner: St Thomas’ Chapel in St Matthew-in-the-City Church by Salmond Reed Architects

The jury described this complex heritage project as “a sophisticated work where the modern and functional sit respectfully alongside the revered and historic”.

See all of the 2012 winners here…

2013 Supreme Award winner: ‘While you were sleeping’. New Zealand ‘Guest of Honour’ Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair by Patterson Associates

This project also won the Installation category that year and imitated an island floating on an ocean of water, with a series of sub-pavilions arranged on top. The jury said the project was “faultless, rigorously thought through, inventive and aspirational.” 

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2014 Supreme Award winner: Waiheke Island Yacht Club by Fearon Hay Architects

Driven by a bold brief, Fearon Hay Architects worked with a 500m² heritage pier, some basic materials and created a strong and deceptively simple metaphor for coastal New Zealand. The judges noted that “achieving elegance with an artisanal soul is not an easy task but it has been achieved [at the WIYC] with disarming honesty.”

See all of the 2014 winners here…

2015 Supreme Award winner: TRA by José Gutierrez Ltd

The judges commented about the interior for this new, more progressive workplace within the 110-year old heritage building the TRA office is located in, that “mirrors and a highly restricted palette of materials are seamlessly detailed to accentuate the materiality and spatial drama of the heritage space.”

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2016 Supreme Award winner:  M11 Studio by Hare Interiors

The jury said that “there is a controlled palette of black, smoked and mirrored surfaces that offers up varying degrees of transparency and translucency” in this interior for a contemporary high-end hair salon draws inspiration from the minimalist art forms and mirrored box-like sculptures of Donald Judd and Robert Morris. They continue: “… this is a confident interior that goes well beyond trends in search of highly stylised solutions.”

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2017 Supreme Award winner: Amano by McKinney + Windeatt Architects

Now an icon of a restaurant in Auckland’s Britomart, the judges noted:  “A daring yet sensitive response to a large and somewhat impersonal and cavernous locale, resulting in a charming, beguiling interior that is well suited to its client and users.”

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2018 Supreme Award winner: He Tohu Document Room – He whakapapa kōrero, he whenua kura by Studio Pacific Architecture

“On and on, the architectural and spatial gems continue throughout this interior, making He Tohu a very well-considered space that neutrally but emotively overlays two people’s histories as they meet in one place,” the jury commented about this civic project in Wellington.

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2019 Supreme Award winner: B:Hive, Smales Farm by BVN in association with Jasmax

Billed as the largest co-working space in the Southern Hemisphere, this project in Takapuna, Auckland is “a strong example of what can be accomplished when interior design is treated as a commercial building’s top priority,” the jury said.

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2020: Supreme Award winner: Commercial Bay Retail Precinct by Warren and Mahoney in association with NH Architecture

Judges said, “Although eight years in the making, this interior feels contemporary and forward thinking. It takes into consideration the growing needs of a city from an urban planning and transport perspective, and it never loses sight of its retail heart. It is an interior which combines retail laneways and food streets, grit and finesse, commerce and urbanism while delivering a sophisticated, urbane experience for all.

See all of the 2020 winners here…

Enter your projects for the 2021 Interior Awards at interiorawards.co.nz by 28 April for your chance to take your place amongst these incredible projects.