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John Glenn Ave

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New single-level multi-unit commercial retail centre featuring four large tenancies, including a restaurant, designed to meet community demand with a modern aesthetic and efficient service routes.

New single-level multi-unit commercial retail centre.

  • Year Completed: 2015
  • Location: John Glenn Avenue, Albany 
  • Professional Service/s: Resource Consent, Building Consent, Fire Engineering, Passive Fire Design, Emergency Lighiting Design.

Overview:
The building has a footprint of 1,400m² with four large commercial tenancies, including a restaurant.

The challenge was to create a modern single-storey,  large format retail centre what was much in demand within the surrounding area. To arrive with the resulting design, we thoughtfully discussed with various stakeholders, client, real estate agent, engineering and developers.

Solution:
The constructed form is a simple modern form with a mono pitch roof following the contour of the site, respecting the surrounding, at the same time, providing highly presentable road frontage.

In Detail:
The bulk and location design has been much discussed at the early stage, and we came up with the solutions that reflect how such large format business works, such as providing rear service route around the building.

THE DESIGNFIRE was keen on the use of exposed materials such as concrete and steel roofings and ensured the building to be modern yet cleverly arranged

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“I have worked with THE DESIGNFIRE since 2014 with projects ranging from residential developments and high-end holiday homes. THE DESIGNFIRE has indeed become not only my company’s “Chief Designer” but also my “Personal Design Adviser”. THE DESIGNFIRE was engaged for all of our high-end residential developments and all of my holiday homes in Auckland. They were able to help me as a single point of responsibility with initial concept designs, material and colour selections right through to implementation and build, all within a set budget and timescale. I gained two fundamental benefits from employing THE DESIGNFIRE. One is the design itself. They were able to take a few basic and rather uncertain ideas of mine and show how they could be realised to best effect. They put forward the most incredible ideas for floor plans, spatial quality, interior design, and special architectural features. They were particularly amazing at coming up with solutions, and improvising, for the areas I hadn’t considered. Sourcing everything would have taken me weeks, or never at all. I have to say that they have a wonderful & trendy taste of design ideas. They always give you choices and add some interesting things in that you just wouldn’t have thought of, but that works beautifully. Another one is commercial benefits, our clients were all extremely happy with the design solution in our development, and they believe our product is different from those by other developers. I believe THE DESIGNFIRE’s design had some good influence here. Speaking of my own holiday houses, while I’ve only got to enjoy a few days in a year, most of the other times were rented out short term, and the return has been amazing, the stylish houses that THE DESIGNFIRE created generated huge interest and made my houses really popular in the area.”

Frank Li, Luxury Infinity Investment Group Limited

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