EAT YOUR HEARTS OUT, STEVENS LAWSON, Fearon Hay and RTA Studio – your awards’ hit rates are impressive but Dunedin architect Gary Todd’s is well-nigh perfect. In 2022, almost 50 years after he started out in architecture as a teenaged ‘print boy’, Todd entered the Institute of Architects awards programme seriously for the first time. His firm’s project, Ebb-Dunedin in downtown Ōtepoti, not only won a New Zealand Award but gained top-tier recognition in the form of the Sir Miles Warren Award for Commercial Architecture.
That’s quite a feat of architectural summiting and it would be understandable if Todd regarded Ebb’s elevation as the apotheosis of his career. Not so. He prefers to see the Sir Miles Award not as the culmination of a journey but as confirmation he’s on the right track. Todd’s on a mission to make a difference – to improve the built quality of his city and, in the face
