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The new Newmarket Railway Station Redevelopment won an award in the the 2010 Auckland Architecture Awards last night.
The development was admired for “clever handling of the tight horizontal restraints of the site - resulting in an elegant vertical slip of a station”.
“The architect has made the most of what they had and emphasised the joys of railway travel,” said judging panel convenor, architect Daniel Marshall.
The development was done by by Opus Architecture and Herriot + Melhuish: Architecture.
The historic Jean Batten building was left with just a facade but the architects still think that deserves the heritage award!
The Deloitte Centre in Auckland City, by Warren and Mahoney Ltd and Woods Bagot in association, won a Commercial Architecture award and the adjoining Jean Batten Building, incorporated as part of the development, was a winner in the Heritage category for Warren and Mahoney Ltd with Woods Bagot and Dave Pearson Architects in association.
Jurors said the “materiality of the new tower carefully meets the old condition with sensitive overlaps”.
The refurbishment of an office building at 21 Queen Street by Peddle Thorp Aitken, incorporating high-tech glazing and an efficient air management strategy, won awards in both the Commercial and Sustainable Architecture categories.
A commercial development in Canada Street, Auckland City, by Wingate + Farquhar was also a winner in the Commercial category, described as “small but astutely proportioned” with innovative use of materials.
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Great to see some good feed back about New Market station.
it’s a lemon,worst station in the world,where in the world do the train driver jumps out of his front engine cab to go to the back of train to drive forward,it cost 4min and 20sec sitting at this station