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The Gold Medal

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The Gold Medal is the highest individual honour an architect can achieve in New Zealand.

It honours those architects who consistently achieve the highest standards for – and with – their clients. Gold Medal recipients make an outstanding contribution to the practice of architecture, which is demonstrated through a consistently high-quality body of work over a period of time. Read their award citations below.

 
 

2022 Gold Medal: Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson

Our highest honour is presented this year to two architects, the first time the Gold Medal has been jointly awarded since The Group received it in 2001.
 
 

2021 Gold Medal

Julie Stout
 

2020 Gold Medal

Dave Strachan
 

2018 Gold Medal

Jeremy Salmond
 

2017 Gold Medal

Andrew Patterson
 

2016 Gold Medal

Roger Walker
 

2015 Gold Medal

Stuart Gardyne
 

2014 Gold Medal

Patrick Clifford
 

2013 Gold Medal

Pip Cheshire
 

2012 Gold Medal

Pete Bossley
 

2011 Gold Medal

Jack Manning
 

2010 Gold Medal

Marshall Cook
 

2008 Gold Medal

Ivan Mercep
 

2006 Gold Medal

Gordon Moller
 

2005 Gold Medal

David Mitchell
 

2004 Gold Medal

Ian Athfield
 

2003 Gold Medal

Peter Beaven
 

2002 Gold Medal

E.J. (Ted) McCoy
 
 

2001 Gold Medal

The Group
 

2000 Gold Medal

Sir Miles Warren
 
 

1999 Gold Medal

John Scott

Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson, in conversation...

"Within our design process and studio there’s a common understanding of how we go about doing things – a kind of unspoken design language. There’s a hum of understanding between us that percolates through everything we do together."

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Patrick Clifford, in conversation...

“When we started out, we spent years hoping we’d get some work, and it was tough. We worked incredibly hard, and I think we still work very diligently. I don’t think we’ve ever got to a point where we take work for granted. There are a lot of good people working out there, and we respect that. We don’t think we get anything as of right.”

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Pip Cheshire, in conversation...

“I’m interested in a kind of clarity, a paring back. That, coupled with an acknowledgement that there are no singular answers anymore. I have no truck with revisited modernism, the kind of neo-modernism that’s going around. We’ve lost the modernist social agenda, so modernism has been disempowered. It has become a style thing.”

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