Te Kupenga 155 Fanshawe Street

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Sitting at the southern end of Daldy Street—which connects Wynyard Point to Victoria Park—Te Kupenga addresses one of the main entries to Auckland's revamped waterfront precinct.
The architects created a ‘piano nobile’ lobby area from which a series of stairs and bridges connects to the upper floor levels around the south-facing atrium—the Park Room—offering occupants a strong connection to Victoria Park.
In keeping with the brief to create a series of open, collaborative spaces, the lobby stairs also act as an informal meeting space.
Typically, atria are located in the centre of a building without any outlook to the surroundings. The atrium at Te Kupenga is located on the southern boundary where it allows occupants a view to Victoria Park and the city.
By positioning the atrium on the southern facade, the architects have created a highly flexible floorplate, which will allow future tenants to add inter-tenancy stairs if they wish to connect floors together.
The 'bridges' have been offset from each other to maximise passive temperature control throughout the building and to ensure natural light permeates the building as much as possible.
The southern facade's curtain wall comprises low-iron glass, which is extra clear to provide the best possible view out to Victoria Park.
A series of external terraces and winter garden spaces blur the boundaries of the traditional office/workspace allowing occupants to be outside without leaving the building.
The western side of the building fronts onto Daldy Street and is where the main entrance to building is situated.
The southern facade fronts onto Fanshawe Street with the view towards Victoria Park and the CBD beyond. Passersby can get a real sense of the atrium with it's offset bridges linking the floors.

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Architectus is an architecture and urbanism practice designing places and spaces tuned to their communities, context and culture. Advocates for integrated design, we apply a rigorous and tailored approach to create environments that are inspiring and enduring.

For over 30 years, we have been realising innovative and bespoke projects around Aotearoa New Zealand, shaping precincts and campuses with people and sustainability at their heart. Through a collaborative and integrated approach, we have had many successful joint ventures with local and international partners, and we enjoy a strong relationship with our associated studios in Australia.

Our Purpose
We believe architecture begins with a social agenda. It must nurture and grow communities and individuals, and enhance its neighbourhood and city. Appropriate, efficient and elegant architecture for today becomes the urban fabric of the future – we design for this longevity, to create places that will serve generations to come.

Design Philosophy
While a good project must firstly solve practical needs and be viable, a truly great project must embody a community’s broader cultural context: its urban and architectural setting, its local geography and ecology, and the stories of its people. The more meaningful a place becomes through a true sense of belonging, the greater the value and longevity it has for its community.

We believe placemaking in Aotearoa is grounded in a bicultural creative process. We partner with mana whenua to embed their aspirations and cultural narratives across functional, ceremonial, spatial and artistic dimensions.

Underpinning these human stories is our responsibility to be judicious with natural resources. Environmentally sensitive architecture requires us to be energy-efficient and space-efficient, and to use low-carbon materials and ethically sourced products.

This is a holistic approach that embeds our practice in a continuum of artistic and technical progress, so the architecture we are responsible for will be relevant for decades to come.

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