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ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park

ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
© Simon Devitt

ANZ RARANGA AT SYLVIA PARK

Architectus

ARCHITECTS
Architectus

LOCATION
Auckland, New Zealand

YEAR
2018

STRUCTURE
Holmes Consulting Group

CONTRACTOR
Dominion Constructors

MANUFACTURERS
AutoDesk, Enscape, Thermosash, Busck, Concretec, European Stone Masons, Grayson Engineering, Insol, Rooflogic, Stresscrete

PHOTOGRAPHS
Simon Devitt

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

AREA
11370 m²

GEOTECHNICAL
Tonkin + Taylor

COST CONSULTANT
Rider Levett Bucknall

PROJECT MANAGER
Pragmatix

SERVICES
Norman Disney & Young

LANDSCAPE
Wraight & Associates

CIVIL
AECOM

FIRE
OnFire Consulting

CLIENTS
Kiwi Property

ARTIST
Lucy G Design

Text description provided by architect.

New Zealand’s favourite shopping centre, Sylvia Park, with its wide selection of retailers complemented by entertainment and dining options, has already become a destination in itself.

ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
© Simon Devitt
ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
© Simon Devitt

The addition of the first commercial office building on site supports the centre’s ambitions to transform into a metropolitan town centre.

A master planning exercise determined the site for the first of several planned office buildings. ANZ Raranga is located close to the mall’s heart, ‘The Cone’, and extends the existing restaurant precinct westward.

ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
© Simon Devitt
ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
© Simon Devitt

Food and beverage operators on the ground floor face north and overlook ‘The Grove’, a new landscaped square that forms the entrance to the dining lane.

The lobby for the offices has its address on the mall’s ring road. A side core on the building’s southern facade provides access to large, efficient, and flexible floorplates (on average 1250m2) with only four internal columns. Level one is directly accessed from the lobby via a spiral stair.

On this level, Juliet balconies with sliding doors visually connect the workplace to the activity on the square below.

ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
© Simon Devitt
ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
© Simon Devitt

A floor to floor height of five metres enables the future expansion of the adjacent retail space.

Levels two to nine are arranged in three vertical villages around north facing atria with inter-floor connections.

ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
© Simon Devitt
ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
© Simon Devitt

Optional awning windows allow for naturally ventilated porches.

The building’s envelope transitions from a solid south facade with projecting bay windows via east/west façades with punched windows and vertical sunshades to a fully glazed north facade with horizontal sunshades – opening up the view to Mount Wellington, the area’s impressive volcanic cone.

ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
© Simon Devitt


ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
Site plan
ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
SIte plan
ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
Ground floor plan
ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
First floor plan
ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
Mezzanine floor plan
ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
Type floor plan


ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
East - West section
ANZ Raranga at Sylvia Park
North - South section

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