20 Customhouse Quay (XXCQ)

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XXCQ
Located between Featherston Street and Customhouse Quay, XXCQ replaced BP House (1967), which was demolished due to earthquake damage.
XXCQ sits within a landscape of commercial buildings.
On the street edge, the glazing pulls back to expose the diagrid structure.
Old meets new: XXCG behind the roof of one of the Shed buildings.
The diagrid is expressed throughout the building, including the sunshading.
In the basement, the base isolators hold the weight of the building and allow the foundations to move sideways.
The café in the ground-floor atrium also acts as an informal work space for meetings.
The main reception area is part of an activated ground floor lobby, creating energy and excitement around a space that can be quite sterile.
Materials on the ground floor are distilled to stone, timber and brass. 
The oak panelling was custom designed by the architects.
The circulation space running between the main doors on the ground floor.
The circulation core is clad in timber panelling with black aluminium lifts.
Deloitte's reception area on the 12th floor features a curvaceous internal pod that wraps around small meetings rooms,
Large meeting rooms run around the edges of the building with views of Wellington Harbour and the neighbouring cityscape.
Inside the internal pod is an informal meeting booth lined with plush teal-blue seating.
A break-out space is occupied by retro chairs and over-lit by handblown orange glass pendant lights
The staff café on the 12th floor is as nice as any café in town, featuring natural materials and views of the citiscape.
A feature of the staff café is a large lightbox ceiling emanating a bush canopy of ferns.
Wooden tables and seating provide a nice contrast to the steel structure and glazing, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere for staff.
A view of neighbouring buildings from the staff cafe, framed by the diagrid structural members.
Fishermen enjoy the view from Oriental Parade of the XXCQ building, which reflects the afternoon sun.
The site plan by Studio Pacific Architecture.
Elevations of XXCQ by Studio Pacific Architecture.
An exploded diagram showing the different elements of the building, by Studio Pacific Architecture.
The ground-floor plan by Studio Pacific Architecture.
A typical floor plan by Studio Pacific Architecture.
The perimeter section diagram by Studio Pacific Architecture.

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Shaping Our Pacific Future – We are a cross-disciplinary architecture, interior, landscape and urban design practice shaping a more sustainable and people-centric built environment across the buildings, neighbourhoods, cities, and landscapes of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Studio Pacific was established in 1992 by friends and colleagues Evžen NovákNick Barratt-Boyes, and Stephen McDougall. After working in the UK and Europe, the three architects were drawn back home by a shared desire to form a collaborative and innovative practice in Te Whanganui-a-Tara – Wellington.

They opened an architecture studio ‘of the Pacific’, applying their creativity to projects that engaged with, and elevated, context and culture. Over the years, this has grown into a compelling manifesto to shape our collective Pacific future, where people and the planet are at the heart of our built environment.

Today, we are a team of around 100 – including architects, urban designers, landscape architects, interior designers and business professionals. We bring diversity in thinking and design, and a democratic culture ensures clever ideas come from all corners of the practice, not necessarily from those who have been here the longest.

Open-minded, collaborative and creative, our practice has evolved into a leading and award-winning business, working on a wide range of exciting projects that seek to make Aotearoa New Zealand a better place.

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