65 Federal Street, Penthouse Apartment Tower Development, NZ Real Estate Building Images
65 Federal Street in Auckland
Real Estate Project on North Island of New Zealand – design by Elenberg Fraser and Jasmax Architects
13 Sep 2018
65 Federal Street
Design: Elenberg Fraser and Jasmax Architects
Location: Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
65 Federal Street

Elenberg Fraser love Auckland. We have long admired the city and its exports in culture and business and the arts. Almost 20 years ago we published the works of the great Rewi Thompson in Transition magazine, it is powerful work that we have absorbed and never forgotten.

So our response to the Federal Street site is a personal and complex one. In contemporary architecture, landscape is often reduced to view lines and decoration. But we have sought to evacuate the ground plane and to reinstate the traditional forests of the New Zealand Taraire. We see this as a gift to the city, a visceral tactile forest experience with waterfalls and rocks and moss and layered dense vegetation ? a real, living forest experience for residents and visitors and public alike. At the heart of the forest is a well, where the rushing water cascades from above and crashes into an underground grotto below. A new people place, to revitalise Federal Street immediately and the precinct at large.
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