By Paul Brown & Associates Limited
Modern live-work opportunities in a city fringe location
Maximised potential in a mixed-use zone
With dual street frontage, this triangular site adjacent to Grey Lynn’s eclectic shopping precinct required an innovative and original design response. The solution combines two small blocks of high quality townhouses with ground floor retail spaces on Great North Road. This layout facilitates a sympathetic engagement with existing retail units along the main street frontage, while maintaining an appropriate relationship with the residential cul-de-sac on the western boundary.
Key urban design initiatives have been implemented relating to height, grain and typologies appropriate to the local context. A central circulation space between the two blocks affords light, outlook to east and west, and important cross ventilation. Hanging gardens, a communal outdoor social space and a pedestrian access way promote greater site permeability and opportunities for social interaction. An exterior material palette featuring bricks, glazed tiles and textured concrete is sympathetic to the existing context while also being distinctively contemporary.
This significant residential/retail project commanded top sale prices for the area, and has contributed to the ongoing transformation of Great North Road and Grey Lynn.
PB&A is a highly experienced, collaborative and project-focused architectural practice.
Specialising in multi-unit residential, PB&A has expertise in large-scale, high-rise projects such as apartments, hotels and student residences.
As a practice, PB&A has developed specialist knowledge in the design and construction of multi-storey buildings. This knowledge enables the architects to communicate closely and specifically with the multidisciplinary team of experts that projects of this scale require.
With a particular talent for providing solutions that maximize building usage and work within council planning constraints, PB&A has developed a reputation for perceptive and innovative design expertise, resulting in a strong track record of successful developments.