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Sumner Post Office

Project: Sumner Post Office
Location: Sumner, Christchurch
Completed: 2025
Type: Heritage adaptive reuse – hospitality
Sector: Hospitality
Award: NZIA 2025

About the project

Recognition

Winner2025 NZIA Canterbury Architecture Awards — Commercial Architecture

A landmark 1938 building revitalised as a hospitality venue, respecting its architectural legacy while embracing renewal.

A finely detailed red brick extension sits alongside the original, with a recessed negative detail marking the transition between old and new. The separation reads both forms clearly and creates the key access points.

Sumner Post Office – 1938 heritage building revitalised as a hospitality venue by AW Architects – image 2

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