AOTEA PRECINCT
LandLAB are engaged by MRCB Property to provide urban design and landscape architectural inputs into the Aotea Precinct and Symphony Centre project. The Symphony Centre extends beyond conventional urban development, it is a place where life, work and leisure harmoniously coexist and stands as a living homage to both Māori culture and a shared future vision.
LandLAB have provided overall site wide urban design advice to the project team, the assessment of the scheme against the city centre design guidelines and reference design documents, design of the site public realm and amenity spaces, Te Aranga Design Principles and CPTED assessment. The Urban Design proposal supports the articulation of the building as a vertical stack and mix of uses and activities establishing a ‘vertical village’ that compliments the surrounding precinct.
Founded in Papatuanuku below and rising to meet Ranginui above, The Symphony Centre public realm reflects our ever-present connection with land and sky.
The Symphony Centre, Bledisloe House and The Lanes are part of a wider future vision to reimagine and revitalise Aotea Arts Quarter for the benefit of all Auckland residents and visitors.
A balance of movement and place functions creates a space that supports both the requirements of Aotea Station and important pedestrian connections and links into the city centre and precinct as well as a establishing a new highly programmed and curated urban destination that supports the aspirations of the Quarter. The Lanes will further activate Aotea Arts Quarter with an existing retail and restaurant destination. Positioned between The Symphony Centre transport integrated development, and recently restored historic Bledisloe House.
Details
2021 - Current
Date
Aotea Square, Tāmaki Makaurau - Auckland
Location
Symphony Centre, MRCB Property
Client
Budget
$10M
Collaborators
Woods Bagot (Architect)
Holmes (Civil/Structural)
Switch (Lighting)
Graeme Tipene (Mana whenua Artist)
RCP (Project Management)