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Photo © Simon Devitt
Photo © Simon Devitt
Photo © Simon Devitt
Photo © Simon Devitt
Photo © Simon Devitt
Photo © Simon Devitt
Photo © Simon Devitt
Photo © Simon Devitt
Photo © Simon Devitt

Auckland Waterfront - North Wharf Promenade and Silo Park

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Location
Auckland, New Zealand
Year
2011
Client

Waterfront Auckland

Collaboration
Wraight and Associates

Completion Date
2011

Construction budget
$32,000,000 (AUD)

Size
1.8 Hectare

Working waterfronts are constantly in flux; crusty, utilitarian, muscular and dissolving, with temporal qualities that engage all of our senses. Yet contemporary waterfront redevelopments are often characterised by the removal of the very qualities that attract us to these places.

At Auckland’s Wynyard Point redevelopment these conventions are challenged in a development that anticipates transforming a forlorn industrial and maritime precinct into a mixed-use precinct.

Underpinning the design are two key moves: retention and enhancing of fishing and maritime industries form the focus of new public experiences; and, interpreting the site’s peculiar archaeology of patterns and materiality to inform a new public landscape.

Jellicoe Harbour is a major tourism attraction centred on the retention of the fishing fleet, wholesale and retail fish and seafood markets, and new promenades and restaurants.

Silo Park is a layered public space that facilitates a range of hybrid uses; passive recreation, event space, youth precinct, industry and folly. Each program is new to the site, yet built from the pattern language, infrastructure and the mythology of place.

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