Beaumont Quarter Masterplan, Auckland
Winner NZIA Local Award, Stage One Houses, 2003
Winner NZIA Auckland Architecture Award, Urban Design 2009
Winner NZIA New Zealand Architecture Medal Finalist Urban Design 2010
Winner NZIA New Zealand Architecture Award Urban Design 2010
Adjacent to Victoria Park, Beaumont Quarter is a watershed project which has been carefully planned and implemented since 2001. Studio Pacific has been heavily involved in this project from the beginning, masterplanning the 2.4-hectare inner-city site and setting out the urban framework for the old Enerco gas works site. Other international and local architects collaborated on further stages, including S333 (Amsterdam), Engelen Moore (Australia) and expatriate landscape architect Steven Tupu (New York).
An innovative housing project, the masterplan includes a mixed use of approximately 250 houses comprising of 33 housing typologies, apartments, studios, along with the workspaces, and work-from-home spaces. An amenities facilities building has been incorporated, as well as the refurbishment of several Victorian heritage buildings and carparking for over 380 cars.
Studio Pacific were architects for the 72 units that make up Stage One houses, apartments and refurbishment of the heritage Victorian Exhauster House, completed in 2002. The medium density mixed-use housing precinct has been widely published,
and received much attention and support from councillors, planners and community alike for its affordable leasehold structure, human-scale exterior spaces, and sensitivity to its site history.
Stage Two was designed by S333 with Studio Pacific providing local documentation and knowledge, and was completed in 2005. Stage Three was designed by Engelen Moore from Sydney and completed in 2006.
Client: Melview Developments Ltd.
