Three Queenstown interiors among the best in NZ

The interiors of three Queenstown properties have been recognised in the top 31 in New Zealand over the past year.

Warren & Mahoney Architects slotted two of three finalist spaces in last month’s Interior Awards 2022 health and wellness category, for their work on Queenstown Country Club retirement village and the nearby Southern Cross Central Lakes Hospital, while Gibbston Valley Lodge & Spa, by Space Studios, was in the running in the hospitality category.

Warren & Mahoney associate principal Jonathan Goss says the firm was ‘‘pretty stoked’’ to get two projects in the top three of the ‘‘top
interiors awards in the country’’.

‘‘[We were] up against the industry’s finest, as it were.

‘‘It was amazing that we got both projects in that top three and we were pipped at the post, unfortunately — ‘we was robbed’, as they
say.’’

The overall winner in ‘health and wellness’ was Auckland University of Technology’s Te Ahuru Recreation Centre, by Jasmax.

‘‘We’re talking basketball courts and ping-pong tables, so [it’s] quite difficult to judge, I suppose, when you’ve got such diversity … but it’s great recognition for both our clients and ourselves to be up there in that calibre of projects,’’ he says.

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