Client: Precinct Properties
Project Type: Commercial
Project Timeframe: May 2021 - April 2024
Architects: Warren and Mahoney
Ratings:Greenstar
Our brief for this prime Auckland location was to turn an existing 20-storey office tower into a 21-storey mixed-use building that includes a five-star hotel with a rooftop bar, gym and L1 reception and restaurant, and 14,000m2 of premium office space.
A huge workforce was involved—4605 people worked on it across all its stages—with 700 onsite at its peak. The hotel occupies six floors, Deloitte’s new head office has another five, and Bell Gully’s new head office occupies three.
Commercial Bay’s busy restaurant area on L2 remained open while we worked on floors above and below, so we had to maintain tolerance controls and ensure weather protection as we pulled off the facades. Ultimately we had to remove the entire original façade and extend the floor plates, using climbing screens to maintain safety and efficiency.
We worked across a range of fronts, from completing the Deloitte and restaurant fitout to removing the rooftop plant room and putting another storey on top. All floors have been seismically strengthened. When we built new lift pits into the below sea-level basement we had to solve the problem of extensive water ingress.
That was just one of many challenges on this project. Apart from working in a live environment and the complexity of the façade and logistics, there were also events such as Covid, Auckland’s floods in early 2023, and the tragic shooting incident on the site in July that year.
The project’s success is a tribute to teamwork and a great culture, not only onsite but across the entire company. Staff came in from Wellington and different entities worked cohesively to get a great outcome on a superb location.
