Browns Bay Apartments

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CLIENT: ARIA RETIREMENT VILLAGES LTD | PROJECT MANAGEMENT: HAY & ASSOCIATES | QUANTITY SURVEYOR: HAY & ASSOCIATES | SERVICES ENGINEERING: OPUS INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANTS | STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING: MSC CONSULTING ENGINEERS | FIRE ENGINEERING: ENLIGHTENED SOLUTIONS | ACOUSTIC DESIGN: MARSHALL DAY ACOUSTICS | GEOTECHNICAL: FRASER THOMAS | COMPLETION: 2015

Aria in the Bay is a three-storey apartment building with basement car-parking, located at Browns Bay in Auckland.

The building contains nine two-bedroom apartments, ranging in size from 74m2 to 91m2, each carefully oriented to achieve good sunlight and views, and with generous external living areas. There is a common lounge and barbecue courtyard on the ground floor to promote community living. The site slopes steeply upwards on the the site slopes steeply upwards on the western side to existing bush, which is retained as a landscape amenity containing walking tracks.

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JTB Architects is an award-winning NZIA Registered practice, founded in Nelson in 1986. We now work from studios in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Wānaka, on projects around New Zealand. We design beautiful contemporary buildings of all sizes and across a broad range of project types.

Design-led
We are a design-led practice which is committed to understanding and responding to our client’s needs with professionalism, energy and creativity. With each project we aim to find the optimum balance between sustainability, value and design quality, based on our client’s priorities. We design robust and durable buildings without compromising aesthetic quality.

Committed to sustainability
Innovation forms a central part of our approach in relation to materials technology and energy use. We are members of the New Zealand Green Building Council, and our business is also EKOS Zero Carbon for Business Operations.