Jane Rooney is a New Zealand architect who led the project for the award-winning
St. Andrew's College Centennial Chapel.
Biography
Rooney grew up in
Christchurch
Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. Christchurch has an urban population of , and a metropolitan population of over hal ...
and attended
Villa Maria College
Villa Maria College is a private Catholic college in Buffalo, New York, United States. It was founded in 1961 by the Felician Sisters.
History
The college was initially a teacher-training center for sisters in the education apostolate and wa ...
. She worked in the United Kingdom for ten years, on commercial and mixed-use developments.
Rooney was one of the group who established a Christchurch branch of Architecture + Women New Zealand. In 2013, she was one of the co-leaders of the group's RE-THINK exhibition.
In 2014, she joined Christchurch architecture firm
Architectus
Architectus is a architectural firm based in Australia and New Zealand. The firm has over 700 staff with offices in Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Christchurch, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Wellington.
Architectus’ portfolio includes commerc ...
.
Rooney was project architect for the St. Andrew's College Centennial Chapel, which won the Public Architecture Award at the 2018 Canterbury Architecture Awards and the Future Heritage Award at the 2018 Canterbury Heritage Awards.
In 2019, she was appointed to the New Zealand Registered Architects Board assessors panel and in 2021 she became a Fellow of
Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.
References
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New Zealand women architects
21st-century New Zealand architects
Year of birth missing (living people)
People educated at Villa Maria College, Christchurch
Architects from Christchurch
Living people