New Zealand Green Building Council Head Office

By Smith Architects

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The new New Zealand Green Building Council Head Office headquarters is a showcase project manifesting the spirit of the organisation, aimed at providing a drop-in centre for members, as well as providing a space for lectures, events, training, and so on.

Designed to a strict budget, the fitout was achieved for around the same cost as a standard fitout for a small organisation. The focus was on designing in elements that would pay for themselves in terms of energy saving costs and providing a healthy working environment.

The offices were assessed under the Green Star independent rating system. Green Star is New Zealand’s independent rating system that assesses buildings’ environmental aspects across a number of categories. The offices were ultimately certified by the New Zealand Green Building Council but assessed under the same strict process by two independent assessors and an independent chair, who co-ordinated the assessment meetings.

New Zealand Green Building Council offices were certified 5 Green Stars under the Interiors rating in April 2015.

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Smith Architects is an award-winning international architectural practice creating beautiful human spaces that are unique, innovative and sustainable through creativity, refinement, and care.

Phil and Tiffany Smith established the practice in 2007. We have spent more than two decades striving to understand what makes some buildings more attractive than others, in the anticipation that it can help us design better buildings.

Recent advances in neuroscience and psychology have enabled scientists to unlock some of the reasons why we find certain works of art, objects and environments more attractive than others, and at the heart of it is simple Darwinian theory: if we find something attractive we will be more likely to choose that thing over another – be it a painting, a piece of music, a landscape or even a building.

At Smith Architects, we use these learning to inform our designs, striving to create beauty in everything we do, in the belief that beautiful spaces create better environments for human beings or ‘beautiful human spaces’.

We carefully integrates architectural, landscape, interior and furniture design skills to ensure projects achieve an holistic integrity that meets our client’s needs. At the core of our design rigour, we believe that modern, sustainable, research-based design delivers a successful project with innovative solutions that work for our clients.

Our Auckland, New Plymouth, and Arrowtown offices design and deliver projects ranging from refurbishments to new-builds; from domestic scale to urban master plans; from conception to completion. Our experience covers a broad range of typologies – masterplans, mixed-use schemes, residential; offices; cultural; educational; healthcare and childcare.

We work with a diverse client base, including developers, private, government and charities and have experience of working with multiple stakeholders on challenging sites around the world.

We are a member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA), the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC), Site Safe New Zealand, and the Sustainability Business Network.

At ArchiPro we recognise and acknowledge the existing, original and ancient connection Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have to the lands and waterways across the Australian continent. We pay our respects to the elders past and present. We commit to working together to build a prosperous and inclusive Australia.