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<h2>Centre 'in the clouds' among winners at NZ architecture awards</h2>
<h2>Overturning oil and gas ban 'journey of penance' for Jones</h2>
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The "one-of-a-kind" visitor centre was among 23 buildings recognised as the best of Aotearoa's architecture.
Shane Jones says the offshore oil and gas ban is "the worst political decision" he has ever been involved with.
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Ravenscar House Museum was opened to the public in 2021.
Photo: Supplied / Sam Hartnett
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones.
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
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<p>A repurposed classroom 'in the clouds' of Nepal, Dunedin's Railway Station and a learning centre based on a legendary explorer are among 23 buildings recognised as the best of Aotearoa's architecture in 2024.</p>
<p>The single largest opportunities for economic development in Taranaki are reviving the oil and gas sector and accelerating the development of seabed mining, according to Regional Development Minister Shane Jones.</p>

<p>The winners, announced at the New Zealand Institute of Architects' 2024 Awards in Tāmaki Makaurau on Friday night, were selected from a shortlist of 48 across 11 categories.</p>
<p>Jones has been in New Plymouth for the Taranaki Regional Growth Summit, one of a series of such roadshows making their way around the country.</p>

<p>"So many projects came from completely different walks of life, but used the vehicle of architecture to explore the potential of partnership between cultural groups. It was epic," jury convenor Caro Robertson said.</p>
<p>The self-confessed "motor-mouth" told the hand-picked audience that the offshore oil and gas ban "was the worst political decision" he had ever been involved with, "so, if I seem to you half-mad on this question of energy, it's a journey of penance."</p>

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Ravenscar House Museum explores the idea of galleries as "ghost" rooms.
Photo: Supplied / Sam Hartnett
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<p>After the 2011 Christchurch earthquake destroyed the Scarborough Hill home of philanthropist Jim and Dr Susan Wakefield, the couple commissioned the Ravenscar House Museum to gift their home and art collection to the public. It opened its doors in 2021.</p>

<p>Patterson Associates Limited architects said they wanted it to serve as "a lasting symbol of resilience" and explored the idea of galleries as "ghost" rooms.</p>

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The museum acknowledges the "gothic architectural legacy" of Christchurch.
Photo: Supplied / Johannes van Kan
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<p>They also wanted to acknowledge the "gothic architectural legacy" of the city in the wake of the earthquake aftermath and managed to incorporate rubble from other damaged buildings in the city that was otherwise destined for landfill.</p>

<p>"As visitors move through the galleries, they transition from light to dark and vice versa, encountering subtle reminders of vanished homes, gardens, the lost city, upon new discoveries."</p>

<p>NZIA said the Sir Edmund Hillary visitor centre in Khumjung Village was "a one-of-a-kind cultural project", envisioned by Auckland-based Pearson & Associates Architect, and was the only winner in the international architecture category.</p>

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A composite image of Khumjung Village (left), where the 1961 classroom built by Sir Edmund Hillary and his wife has been repurposed as a visitor centre (right), acknowledging the work of the mountaineer and the Himalayan Trust.
Photo: Supplied / Sam Hartnett
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<p>The centre, which has repurposed the 1961 building Sir Edmund and his wife built as a classroom after his historic summit of Mount Everest, focuses on the many projects the mountaineer undertook in the area as well as the work of the Himalayan Trust.</p>

<p>"This modest 'school house in the clouds' has a huge cultural significance to the local community and Nepal at large," Pearson & Associates Architect said in their submission.</p>
<p>Jones admitted some oil and gas investors had told him they would not be coming back to New Zealand but he was optimistic for the sector.</p>

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The Sir Edmund Hillary visitor centre in Khumjung Village repurposed the 1961 building Sir Edmund and his wife built as a classroom after his historic summit of Mount Everest.
Photo: Supplied / Sam Hartnett
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<p>"In restoring and repurposing this building we have tried to ensure its legacy will continue into the future and maintain a positive influence on the local community and visitors to the area."</p>

<p>It officially opened last year in celebration of the 70th anniversary of Sir Edmund's summit.</p>
<p>"From my perspective the oil and gas sector has a rosy future, but we need to be sure our sovereign reputation internationally is safeguarded and I am discussing with officials what incentives could be brought forward to develop fresh oil and gas opportunities.</p>

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The category 1-listed heritage building opened in 1906 as a railway station and has diversified to house a restaurant, art gallery, and the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.
Photo: Supplied / Graham Warman
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<p>"I'm confident also that there is now a broader acceptance - certainly in the senior levels of the parliamentary community - that we can't have power resilience unless we have gas."</p>

<p>Salmond Reed Architects described Dunedin's restored railway station as "one of the finest examples of public architecture" in the country.</p>
<p>Jones said one incentive to oil and gas companies might be to include an adverse event clause in exploration deals.</p>

<p>The restoration was commissioned by the city council for repairs and conservation of the category 1 heritage building.</p>
<p>"An adverse event clause means that if politics threatens property rights then people can claim compensation."</p>

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The Dunedin Railway Station restoration project sought to maintain its original Edwardian Baroque-style aesthetic.
Photo: Supplied / Graham Warman
Jones says the oil and gas sector 'has a rosy future.'
Photo: Supplied
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<p>In seeking to maintain the original Edwardian Baroque-style aesthetic, the architects had to find matching replacements for the materials used.</p>
<p>Labour had already created a precedent when it included such a clause when it paid a $140 million subsidy to New Zealand Steel to install a new electric arc furnace for recycling scrap steel, Jones said.</p>

<p>"The building opened in 1906 and after a long history as a railway station, is now used primarily for tourist trains and is a popular visitor attraction in its own right. The building use has diversified, now housing a restaurant, art gallery, and the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame."</p>
<p>Another incentive being explored was reducing the royalties owed to the government to make New Zealand a more attractive destination to drilling companies.</p>

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Te Taumata o Kupe Nuku at Te Mahurehure Marae in Auckland is a place for people to recite and receive mātauranga Māori.
Photo: Supplied / David Straight
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<p>On seabed mining, Jones said it was clear that Trans-Tasman Resources had existing rights in the South Taranaki Bight and these could not be usurped by offshore wind energy companies which claimed the two industries were not compatible.</p>

<p>Te Taumata o Kupe Nuku, at Te Mahurehure Marae, aims to be a place for people to "recite and receive mātauranga Māori".</p>

<p>The Point Chevalier building, which opened in 2022, is named after Kupe, the legendary Polynesian navigator and explorer acknowledged by some iwi as the discoverer of Aotearoa.</p>

<p>It was inspired by korero from kaumātua Christine and her husband John Panapa, Tā Patu Hohepa, Rereata Makiha and Julian Wilcox.</p>

<p>"The building's sweeping, organic form embodies the dynamism of Kupe's waka as it sailed towards Aotearoa. The glazing is like a sail with the reflection of the shifting sun and clouds making the building appear to move like a waka across the ocean," TOA Architects said in their application.</p>

<p>The elevated platform aims to create an illusion of the building hovering, the architects said.</p>

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Te Taumata o Kupe Nuku's form evokes a sense of movement as Kupe’s wak sailed towards Aotearoa.
Photo: Supplied / David Straight
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<p>"The seabed mining applicants are entitled to go through the Fast Track legislation. I think one of the greatest barrier they face is not offshore wind but cultural wind," he said in a veiled dig at Ngāti Ruanui, which has fought seabed mining application from the onset.</p>

<p>Commercial </p>
<p>"I'm confident science, economics and technology will deliver the correct result and that can happen through the Fast Track legislation."</p>

<p>Education </p>
<p>Jones said offshore wind operator Bluefloat Energy's withdrawal from the market was less about a clash with seabed mining and "their own economic decision".</p>

<p>Enduring Architecture </p>
<p>"Seabed mining won't detract from offshore wind. We want multiple sources of energy offshore wind included."</p>

<p>Heritage </p>
<p>New Plymouth Mayor Neil Holdom said the Taranaki Mayoral Forum had raised with the government that the two sectors were potentially not compatible and asked that to be explored.</p>

<p>Housing </p>
<p>"We highlighted that we are very committed to seeing an offshore wind industry developed in Taranaki. We think that is really important to the future of NZ Inc and asked the government to make sure they really understand the risk."</p>

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<p>Holdom was supportive of the use of adverse event clauses to attract offshore exploration back to the province.</p>

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<p>"I think it's a really good start but what we want to see is it not just applied to future oil and gas permits but to all the existing permits to encourage drilling so we can get some more gas and we can stop all these factories closing and all these people being put out of work."</p>

<p>Interior Architecture </p>
<p>Clarus CEO Paul Goodeve the offshore exploration ban's imminent reversal was a good step but he was not convinced the risk to oil and gas investors had been resolved.</p>

<p>International Architecture</p>
<p>"New Zealand is a very egalitarian electorate. We give each side of the house six years or maybe nine years if they are really good, but it takes a decade before a drilling campaign really gets going. So, investors will be looking beyond this government and thinking about what the next government will look like."</p>

<p>Planning & Urban Design </p>
<p>Goodeve said an adverse event clause in a contract would be just one factor an investor might consider.</p>

<p>Public Architecture </p>
<p>"We might have this adverse event clause and that'd probably be a plus but we're a long way from anywhere, we're a small economy they're all negatives, so it will be part of the weighing up investors do."</p>

<p>Small Project Architecture </p>
<p>Goodeve said energy assets and investment decisions were necessarily long term and what New Zealand needed was a consistency of government policy that stretches beyond the current government so investors felt confident to invest here.</p>

<p>Named Awards</p>
<p>Outside the event a small group of activists from Climate Justice Taranaki and Kiwis Against Seabed Mining were promoting local products and the concept of a circular economy as opposed to a growth-orientated economy.</p>


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<h3>Centre 'in the clouds' among winners at NZ architecture awards</h3>
<h3>Overturning oil and gas ban 'journey of penance' for Jones</h3>
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The "one-of-a-kind" visitor centre was among 23 buildings recognised as the best of Aotearoa's architecture.
Shane Jones says the offshore oil and gas ban is "the worst political decision" he has ever been involved with.
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