2016 Hawkes Bay/Gisborne Architecture Awards Winner
Hawke's Bay Business Hub
It is fitting that the concept design for the new Hawkes Bay Business Hub is so sympathetic to the rich industrial tradition of Ahuriri, Napier. The design references the materials and proportions of what was once a tobacco warehouse, but the reconfigured interiors and considered adaptions to the exterior have successfully refashioned the building into a vibrant contemporary workspace. Warm materials and paint finishes highlight the new insertions and complement the building's existing structural rhythms. The semi- industrial aesthetic is set up from the outset. A reception desk cut from an old boiler and an exposed steel stair are highlights of a reception that is more café than corporate lobby, and the stylistic consistency continues through into a workplace of plywood-lined pods and glazed partitions.
- Practice
- Designgroup Stapleton Elliott
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Hawkes Bay/Gisborne
