Typology: Commercial
Completion: 2016
Location: Hamilton Central
Contractor: Stark Property
Photographer: Jason Haselden

Occupying a prominent site in close proximity to Hamilton’s CBD this 1960’s building was originally designed by the Ministry of Works. Over time the buildings crisp modernist lines had succumbed to subsequent layers of unsympathetic makeovers. The brief called for a sense of refined quality balanced with raw authenticity. To achieve this, the interior and exterior facade was stripped back to reveal a cast insitu concrete structure. The process that followed involved selectively reinstating and accentuating certain elements while editing out awkward junctions and details.