Landscape Architecture School

The new Landscape Architecture Building at Lincoln University is the only purpose-designed landscape architecture studio in New Zealand. It brings the 19th century university complex up to date with a pivoting, sliding, flexible extension. The project had a very tight budget, about two thirds the level of similar University building budgets, the desire for a highly sustainable design and the need for a careful insertion of a new structure within a sensitive established context of well loved, low rise, red brick buildings.

The building includes a suite of computer labs on the ground floor, as well as dedicated studio space on the first floor, linked by an atrium that can be utilised for exhibitions and gatherings. At the east end of the building there is a two storey section containing offices and meeting rooms.  An interesting feature of the building is the curved roof following the form of a tapered cone yet constructed in structural steel. The building won a NZIA Award for Public Architecture in Canterbury in 2009.