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Miles Warren
Miles Warren was a founding partner of Warren and Mahoney, formed through the Christchurch Dental School commission in 1958.
Background & practice
Miles Warren was a founding partner of Warren and Mahoney, formed through the Christchurch Dental School commission in 1958. His earlier Dorset Street flats helped establish a regional approach using exposed concrete block, beams and refined details. The NZIA's 2000 Gold Medal citation traces how this language developed into housing, offices and public buildings, connecting structural expression with the architectural character associated with Christchurch.
How to read the work
Make structural systems and building materials legible, using controlled planning, massing and carefully developed roof forms to give regional architecture both spatial variety and a coherent construction language.
Founding partner named in a retrospective citation covering his practice through retirement.
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