Southland Farm Machinery

Practice
Beattie McDowell Architects Ltd

Category
Commercial Architecture

Location
Southern

This flagship headquarters, located on the main highway into Invercargill, confidently announces its presence with a spacious forecourt and transparent glazed showroom that recalls the language of the Las Vegas strip as documented by Robert Venturi. Throughout the building, robust and raw primary construction materials - concrete, steel and Corten - reflect the hard knocks of farming. In contrast, the showroom’s surfaces are polished and finely dressed, recognising the tactile interactions between new machinery and the hands that operate it.

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