From residential dwellings to commercial builds, COLORSTEEL® has been used extensively across New Zealand for more than 40 years, protecting the places Kiwis live, work and play.

To celebrate the professionals across Aotearoa who showcase exceptional use of COLORSTEEL® products, the COLORSTEEL® Awards were launched in 2019 celebrating the incredible workmanship, meticulousness, passion and collaboration of roofers, designers, architects, builders and COLORSTEEL®’s roll-forming partners.

Of judging the design categories Residential Building of the Year and Commercial Building of the Year, judge Lindley Naismith said “We were looking for overall design excellence and the contribution of the COLORSTEEL® products used in terms of that. We assessed the entries against a range of fundamental architectural design criteria such as response to context, evidence of a strong underlying idea, imaginative use of materials, texture and colour, intelligent construction detailing and calibre of the workmanship.”

While for the roofing categories, Graham Moor explained what the judges were looking for when they visited the projects: “We’re really trying to see how much craft the roofers put into their work. It’s how well they’ve executed what’s put in front of them, and the accuracy that goes with it. Something that really stands out is when they’ve improvised with the product, where they’ve had to adapt.”

JUDGES:

The expert judging panel consisted of:

• Ken Crosson, Director, Crosson Architects
• Lindley Naismith, Co-Founder, Scarlet Architects
• Graham Moor, CEO, Roofing Association of New Zealand (RANZ)
• Mark Bishop, Managing Director, Roof Safe NZ
• Rod Newbold, Customer & Market Applications, Specialist, New Zealand Steel.

The winners in each category were announced at the COLORSTEEL® Awards on 7th October at the Auckland Town Hall, to much enthusiasm and applause.

WINNERS:

COLORSTEEL® Supreme Roofer Of The Year
Hartmut Reichelt, Construction Connection And Consultancy

COLORSTEEL® Residential Building Of The Year
Hyndman Taylor Architects With Kanuka Residence

COLORSTEEL® Commercial Building Of The Year
JTB Architects With Te Noninga Kumu – Motueka Public Library

COLORSTEEL® Roofer Of The Year Trapezoidal Profile
Tony Adams And Jordan Gill, Peak Roofing Otago

COLORSTEEL® Roofer Of The Year Corrugate Profile
Courtney McDowell, Attention To Detail Roofing

COLORSTEEL® Roofer Of The Year Tray Profile
Hartmut Reichelt, Construction Connection And Consultancy

COLORSTEEL® New Roofer Of The Year
Liam Williams, Prestige Roofing & Plumbing

COLORSTEEL® Service To Roofing
Frank Thomas, The Roofing Specialists 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDING OF THE YEAR

Kanuka Residence
by Hyndman Taylor Architects

The project features COLORSTEEL® TidalDrift® Matte, used both for the roofing and parts of the cladding. Not only does the mid-tone grey complement the other materials specified, including the exterior tiles, it also helps reduce glare and reflectivity. The roof forms are a collection of three hips that soften the height to neighbours and generate loft in the main occupied spaces.

One of the key elements of success for this winning project was the close collaboration between Hyndman Taylor Architects and the roofer, Hartmut Reichelt. Hartmut also happens to be the winner of both the Roofer of the Year — Tray Profile as well as overall Supreme Roofer of the Year. Judge Ken Crosson noted: “It was a beautifully crafted space but a beautifully crafted, technically competent building as well. The quality of workmanship sat nicely against the quality of the architecture.”

COMMERCIAL BUILDING OF THE YEAR

Te Noninga Kumu – Motueka Public Library
by JTB Architects

The client brief called for community spaces, connection to the nearby reserve, and a sustainable building that referenced its location. Inspired by the traditional, functional forms of rural farm buildings found in the Tasman region, the library takes its visual cues from iron-clad horticultural barns and storage sheds. COLORSTEEL® in rich Pioneer Red references the red ochre pigment of kōkōwai, mined locally in Golden Bay. With a strong focus on energy efficient design, the 1,100m2 library now produces a surplus of 151kWh/m²/year from roof-mounted photovoltaic panels, which goes back to onsite battery storage or to the grid.

By minimising maintenance required, the durable COLORSTEEL® cladding further contributes to the library’s sustainability. Judge Ken Crosson reflected on his and Lindley Naismith’s selection of the winner: “We were very engaged by the library because it had quite a complex context, it had a main road, it had a laneway through the site and it had a park behind it. We thought the materiality was very engaging and the colour had a very regional context. Their use of space, their use of ventilation, their use of low-carbon materials, and the powering of it through solar energy was very aspirational.”

Read a full feature article on his project here.

For more information on the Awards and to learn about the winning projects, click here.