Miles Warren
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Sir Miles Warren ONZ KBE (born in Christchurch in 1929) is a New Zealand architect. He studied architecture at the University of Auckland, and soon moved into the Brutalist architecture movement. Among the notable buildings he has designed in New Zealand are the Christchurch Town Hall (1972), the Embassy of New Zealand in Washington D.C. Building the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington (1983), and the Civic Offices in Rotorua.
Warren was awarded a CBE in 1974, advanced to KBE in 1985, and the Order of New Zealand in 1995.
The Washington embassy building won the 1981 New Zealand Institute of Architects National Award; nearly 25 years later the brickwork of the Chancery won the Annual Brick Award for the Eastern States of the United States.[1]
Critics of his work and its impact on the Victorian architectural heritage of Christchurch include Duncan Fallowell, who has written: "his buildings can't manage the simplest attributes of good design or benevolence".[2]
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- ^ nzembassy.com - About This Embassy
- ^ Fallowell, Duncan: Going As Far As I Can, Profile Books, London 2008, p164
