BNZ Stafford Street

By DLA Architects

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Many Timaru residents will remember this building as the State Theatre, and later in the mid-eighties its amalgamation into the Stafford Mall development.

Our brief was to create a modern, light filled space suitable for a modern banking business and to incorporate structural strengthening. Key to this was creating a visual and physical connection of the floor levels and the roof top carpark which we achieved through a tall interior lightwell, stair and lift. While much of the original building interior had been previously altered, the original street façade above canopy level was intact and was strengthened and maintained. The new glazed footpath canopy is designed to sit lightly across the building frontage.

BNZ Stafford Street
BNZ Stafford Street
BNZ Stafford Street
BNZ Stafford Street
BNZ Stafford Street
BNZ Stafford Street

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We are dla, creators of top notch architecture

We're small enough to take care of everything from your modest residential renovation and big enough to design, document and deliver multi-million-dollar industrial and commercial facilities, with the in-house expertise to cater for all projects in between.

Dickson Lonergan Architects (DLA) was founded in Whanganui in 1974 with founding partners Bruce Dickson (retired) and the late Barry Lonergan. Once fully established in the Whanganui region, DLA then started to expand the business, first into Wellington in 1999 with Barry and Glenn starting up the capital city office. Then came the Timaru Office headed up by Murray Ackroyd in 2005 and the further expansion to Hamilton in 2010 with Martin Swann. 

The opportunity then arose to open an Auckland office in 2015 with Alana moving north from Wellington. Now with 5 offices, DLA has evolved from its humble beginnings into a nationwide practice, with a passionate team of architects and designers who specialise in all fields from commercial, residential, industrial, interiors, education and public projects through to DLA’s main stay of large scale dairy and food processing architecture.     

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