11 October 2007

Wellington Waterfront Limited is seeking public feedback on entries in two design competitions that are currently underway.  The competitions are for the redesign of Frank Kitts Park and concept building designs for Kumutoto sites 8, 9 and 10.    All designs are being displayed in the Waterfront Project Information Centre in Shed 6 on Queens Wharf until Friday 2 November. The Frank Kitts Park entries will be on display from Monday 15 October and those for Kumutoto sites 8 – 10 from Tuesday 16.

The objective of the Frank Kitts Park landscape design competition is to elicit innovative proposals to rejuvenate this important public space.  The competition brief called for designers to skilfully retain the integrity of the existing park, respond to the new presence of Waitangi Park as a venue for events and to fully integrate a Chinese Garden that expresses a contemporary view of being Chinese in New Zealand.  Five landscape architecture firms have been invited to participate in this competition:

Chow:Hill Architecture
Boffa Miskell
Wraight and Associates
Isthmus Group
HBO + EMTB Urban Design

The purpose of the Kumutoto sites 8, 9 & 10 architectural design competition is to identify leading edge innovative building design solutions for these three important development sites and to expand on the quality contribution New Zealand architecture has already made on the waterfront.   Entries will be on display from:

Architecture +
Architecture Workshop
Athfield Architects
Bligh Voller Nield
Studio of Pacific Architecture
Warren and Mahoney

“It has been an exciting process watching the entries in these two very different competitions arrive – the firms invited to participate have obviously gone to a lot of effort in preparing them” says Ian Pike, CEO of Wellington Waterfront Limited.  “We will certainly be interested to know what the public think of the designs as this feedback will be reported to the juries, along with technical and feasibility assessments, to assist the juries in their decision.”

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