Local Architecture firm RTA Studio have completed the Ecologically Sustainably Designed of Ironbank building in Auckland, New Zealand. This amazing building has received the first 5 Star As–Built Greenstar rating from the New Zealand Green Building Council. Positioned in an historic area on the edge of Auckland’s (New Zealand) CBD, the front of the site addresses the high street which is dominated by a rich mixture of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. The building presents a glass reinforced concrete (GRC) façade as a ‘veil’ to the high street edge screening the site’s interior. This screen has been conceived as an abstraction of the historical facades adjacent. In a gesture to the finely scaled historical neighbourhood, the architects have sought to fragment the building form to alleviate the potential mass associated with a medium sized office building. Hence, 5 towers are further fragmented vertically to articulate the composition of stacked office and retail spaces gathered into a socially sustainable working community.

via…[ contemporist ]

Tags: 5 Star As–Built Greenstar, Auckland, Bank Building Architecture, Ecologically Sustainably Designed, glass reinforced concrete, GRC facade, Ironbank building, New Zealand, New Zealand Green Building Council, RTA Studio, Sustainably building Design

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