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Studio Pacific Architecture’s design for Airways New Zealand's new Control Tower at Wellington International Airport has been positioned for optimal controller sight lines and visibility at the airport.

The tower appears to be leaning into Wellington’s prevailing northerly wind, echoing our own personal reaction to the strength of the Wellington winds.

Studio Pacific has partnered with Paris Magdalinos Architects of Napier, who designed the new air traffic control tower at Christchurch Airport, to deliver the specialist technical capability and design experience required to design a modern air traffic control tower. The structure uses the latest 21st Century seismic engineering in a collaboration with Holmes Engineers and Hawkins Construction. The building rests on base isolators and is designed to withstand severe earthquake shaking.

The design provides the functionality that is absolutely essential to aviation safety while also creating a dynamic building that is both memorable and recognisable.

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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.