Tait Cafe

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Our customised collection of upcycled native timber joinery elements complements the public atrium within Tait Communications.  Crafted from reclaimed native timbers from the Christchurch earthquake, we collaborated with steel and wood craftspeople to deliver this bespoke but cost-effective project.

 

Using recycled and locally sourced timber fitted the sustainability mandate from our client and strengthened the intended café food philosophy, to be locally sourced and nutritious. We designed an integrated café counter, bench seating, high tables and seated tables, all with the creative reuse or ‘upcycling’ of waste materials. Given the existing context – a mass timber building by another architect, this was a suitably modern contextual response.

 

Type: Commercial Cafe + Soft Fitout, Workplace Strategy

Client: Tait Communications

Team: Hamish Shaw, Andrea Burgos, Silvia Pisano

Size: 100sqm

Location: 249 Wooldrige Road, Christchurch

Status: Completed

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Hamish Shaw Architects is a contemporary, multi-disciplinary studio practicing in the fields of architecture, design and urbanism.

The studio was founded in 2014 by Hamish Shaw after 12 years collaborating with leading architects in New Zealand and Canada, on a number of award-winning projects, across civic, commercial, residential, infrastructural and urbanism sectors.

Our practice thrives on complex project briefs, with cultural, social, commercial and environmental imperatives, across urban and outstanding natural landscapes. 

Completed projects include Te Manawa Atawhai – Catherine McAuley Centre, Tait Limited Interior fit-out and custom furniture, boutique accommodation for Wharekaretu, installation within the exhibition ‘Thinking About Building’ for Physics Room Gallery, master plans for three South Island primary and intermediate schools, and a number of mixed-use commercial/multi-residential concept feasibilities for the re-emerging city of Christchurch.

Current projects include a 20-hectare residential master plan in Christchurch, a boutique mixed-use development in Lyttelton, a pedestrian/cycle bridge in Auckland, a constructed landscape, and pavilions for an estate in Canterbury, and renovation of a historic house in Auckland.

The practice has recently earned national recognition for Te Manawa Atawhai – Catherine McAuley Centre. Receiving a 2018 NZIA Public Architecture Award for the Canterbury Region, shortlisting for the National NZIA Award of Public Architecture, and a finalist placing in the Interior Awards - Craftsmanship category.