PROJECT

St Bede’s College Chapel and Performing Arts Centre

CLIENT

St Bede’s College

Our team gets results:

Ian Currie – Project Director / Southern Business Manager

Tom McLean – Senior Project Manager

st bede’s college

chapel and performing arts centre

The St Bede’s College Chapel and Performing Arts Centre was awarded the Supreme New Zealand Commercial Project of the Year for 2020. This outstanding award sets the benchmark for commercial construction and recognises the team collaboration and innovation that brings projects like this to life.

Looking to the future, the new Chapel and extended Performing Arts Centre form a strong heart for St Bede’s College. The new Chapel replaced a temporary facility which had been used as a place of worship since the 2011 earthquakes. Considerable effort was made to seamlessly incorporate the College’s salvaged fittings such as stained-glass windows, the organ, stations of the cross, pews, altar, statues, bell and wood carvings. The interior has been designed to enhance the acoustics of the choral and instrumental music associated with the celebration of mass and a gallery sits above the narthex.

The seismic strengthening of the Performing Arts Centre successfully returned it to its original functionality and the extensions included a kitchen, large foyer and outdoor deck. What makes these two projects so special is the high level of teamwork. Congratulations to St Bede’s College and the entire project team including The Building Intelligence Group, Naylor Love, Wilkie + Bruce, Lewis Bradford, Rawlinsons and Tonkin + Taylor.

This was two distinctive interlocking building projects. They exemplify how we can build back better, while successfully maintaining the historic features of a build.

david kelly, registered master builders chief executive.