Horizon Hotel
About
The Hobson Street Hotel is a 12-storey, 300-room five-star hotel that forms part of the master plan together with the New Zealand International Convention Centre for the block of land bounded by Hobson Street, Wellesley Street and Nelson Street with TVNZ sited to the north. The design challenge was to create an iconic addition to the Sky City complex, with a building that had its own character reflecting its use, while also enhancing the physicality of the new convention centre.
The hotel has an air bridge linkage to the Sky City main site. A pedestrian laneway adjacent to the hotel will house bars and restaurants at street level to link Hobson and Nelson Streets and interface with the convention centre.
The challenging site constraints with various setbacks and height restrictions were responded for with a hotel design that responds to those constraints. Hotel rooms are arranged in a curving formation either side of an elliptically shaped atrium. Rising up between the hotel rooms, the atrium orientates the rooms to the north and south of the site while maintaining privacy and outlook from the adjoining buildings. The building is fully glazed to maximise outlook but carefully controlled with overlapping guards van windows on the south side in close proximity to the New Zealand International Convention Centre.
The Hobson Street Hotel was designed by Moller Architects in association with Warren and Mahoney.
Region
Auckland Central, Auckland
Year of completion
2024
Price range to build
5m+
Building style
Contemporary
Client
SkyCity Entertainment Group
Awards
Auckland Architecture Award - 2025
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Drawing on over 50 years of experience and an unending passion for creating buildings that are at once bold and distinctive whilst sensitive to their surrounds and the people who inhabit them, Moller Architects is truly at the forefront of New Zealand architecture and design.
From beach houses that embrace the Kiwi vernacular to iconic landmarks such as Auckland’s Sky Tower – the Southern Hemisphere’s tallest tower, Moller Architects’ innovation and creativity result in buildings that truly make a lasting impression on the landscape and on people’s lives.
Winners of well over 70 architecture design awards, the team at Moller Architects continues to push expectations by working closely with their clients and the surrounding environments to create buildings and interiors that resonate with individuality.
Their elegant designs interweave a contemporary architectural language with the latest innovations and technology, whilst respecting the past and acknowledging the future. Be it the texture of natural wood or the distinctive application of glass or raw exposed steel, Moller Architects’ work expresses an ongoing awareness for creating spaces that provide a warmth and easy-flowing functionality.
With their multi-skilled capabilities and truly unique vision, the architectural and design team’s breadth of work speaks for itself, making Moller Architects a much-respected and sought after company both on a local and international level
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