By Guy Evans Architects
The City of Auckland is experiencing rapid growth with its population expected to double in the next couple of decades. We entered the New Zealand Institute of Architects design competition to explore a new typology for apartment living at a unique site on an inner edge of the city next to a motorway, a railroad and a rare Norfolk Pine that inspired the building's name and form.
The apartment building sits proudly on a volcanic plateau overlooking the city of Auckland. This once ignored site marks an exciting industrial crossroad to converging arterial routes leading into the ever-changing heart of New Zealand’s fastest growing city. The building provides an exciting gateway and leading example of a new typology for inner city living. The building is mixed use with a restaurant proposed on the ground floor and sustainable features reducing its carbon footprint and limiting its reliance on the city's infrastructure.
Guy Evans Architects is an architecture and interior design practice based in Otautahi Christchurch. We are an NZIA Practice member.
Our project work is located throughout Aotearoa New Zealand within a variety of contexts that present unique challenges for our team to tackle with passion and commitment to our clients.
We are primarily focused on residential dwellings from single family houses to apartments and townhouses; new builds and renovations of existing.
We also have a broad experience in a range of commercial building types and their associated interior design.
Current projects include new houses in Fendalton and Waimairi Beach, additions to houses in Sumner and Remuera, a four-storey alteration in Mt Victoria and the repurposing of decommissioned water tanks in Seatoun into a residential brutalist concrete bolthole!
We tailor our services to suite each project. This enables us to optimize the value we bring to all our clients.
Our strong relationships with other key consultants and the building industry as a whole is vital and enables great team work throughout our projects.
There has never been a more challenging time than now for our industry.
We see this as a tremendous opportunity to make a difference.
Our creativity is well balanced with a pragmatic underlay. This allows our early investigations and feasibility studies to maximize the potential of a site while allowing our clients appropriate buffer with clear communications around the project road ahead.
Our wide-ranging experience is laser focused on the jobs at hand.
We love problem solving and understand what good design can bring to our clients.
Our design process aims to distil the essence of the problem.
This transforms the project into something that is more than just a functional building.
It will have a refined elegance that will stand the test of time.