New Zealand Commercial Design Trends Series NZ Commercial Design Trends Vol. 35/02C | Page 49

Project
Sudima Christchurch City,
part of Sudima Laneway
Architect:
Ignite Architects
Interior design:
Ignite Architects and Luchetti Krelle
NATURAL CONNECTION
Sudima Christchurch City hotel offers boutique hospitality and connects guests
to the Canterbury experience with everything from the architecture to the artworks
In a country as beautiful as New Zealand, it
would be easy for a hospitality firm to simply pay lip
service to its charms – whether with a few glossy
tourist photos or even an over-use of Kiwiana.
Luckily, there’s another way. When a boutique
hotel introduces New Zealand artworks to evoke the
land, over glossy snap shots, and makes sure the
fish in its restaurant is sustainably caught, you know
it’s about sharing an authentic connection and love
Facing page:One building, two
distinct uses – office floors are
to the left, behind a glass curtain
wall, while the boutique Sudima
Christchurch City hotel to the
right is clad in gold aluminium
sheet, rounded at the corners, in
empathy with the surrounding city
architecture. The combined office,
hotel, spa and restaurant building
is called Sudima Laneway.
Right The atrium’s two-canopy
system keeps the rain out but
lets fresh air and natural light
penetrate deep into the building.
of our land with business and tourist visitors alike.
This is the story at the new Sudima Christchurch
City. In fact, Sudima Hotels already has a long
string of hospitality and green accolades to its
name, courtesy of its current hotels at Auckland
Airport, Rotorua and Christchurch Airport. For
example, Sudima was the first hotel group in New
Zealand to be awarded a carboNZero certification.
However, this new hotel takes things even further,