The work of veteran Dunedin architect Ted McCoy has been recognised in the 2012 New Zealand Architecture Awards, announced yesterday.
The 1982 redevelopment of Otago Boys' High School, undertaken by McCoy and Wixon Architects under Mr McCoy's design leadership, was one of two structures to receive an enduring architecture award.
The "excellent and unaltered condition" of Mr McCoy's buildings was a tribute both to the architect and to a school which had refrained from tampering with them, Hugh Tennent, convener of the awards jury, said.
Two other Otago projects were among 20 recognised this year.
In Queenstown, Babbage Consultants' Remarkables Primary School was one of three projects named in the public architecture category.
The state school lived up to the promise of its name, Mr Tennent said.
"Located on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, [it] not only brilliantly serves its pedagogical purpose but also provides a clearly identifiable community place in an area not well supplied with high-quality public architecture."
A modest holiday house at Mt Iron, Wanaka, designed by Crosson Clarke Carnachan Chin Architects and inspired by a tramping hut in a bush clearing, was one of three buildings recognised in the small project architecture category.
The winner of the 2012 New Zealand Architecture Medal will be announced at the awards function in Wellington next month.
