Urban Renewal Best Multi-Unit
It wasn’t so long ago that Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter was a nature-stripped industrial area that had done its days in the timber trade before turning to storing petrochemicals as the ‘Tank Farm’.
The flat patch of reclaimed peninsula with boats berthed at its fringes was gritty and uninviting. When the sea breeze dropped, dank aromas from the few greasy spoons that fed local workers hung in the air.
“We like using good materials, and the relationships between them are about as important as the materials themselves.”
That was until 2011, when $120 million was poured into developing new public
