By Bossley Architects
Located in the Wynyard Quarter fronting on to the Viaduct Harbour in the heart of Auckland, this new Park Hyatt Hotel offers an exciting range of public facilities and function spaces, including bars, cafes, restaurants, and reception halls. Taking up a 100m by 50m site, it is essentially a hollow rectangle, the 195 rooms facing out from the perimeters, with a dramatic central atrium, seven stories high and partially glazed. The external façade is cloaked in sliding or pivoting bronzed stainless steel mesh screens, which provide a shimmering skin of reflections to animate the building with natural light.
The developers are Fu Wah NZ, the design team is led by ar+d from Singapore with Bossley Architects. Interiors are by Conran and Partners from London, and the project involved multiple NZ based consultants. China Construction and Hawkins completed construction in mid 2020.
Bossley Architects is a multidisciplinary Architecture and Interior Design practice based in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, creating architecture to lift the spirit. The practice is based on the belief that innovative yet practical design is essential for the production of good buildings and spaces, and that the best buildings spring from an open and enthusiastic collaboration between architect, client and consultants.
We have designed a wide range of projects including commercial, institutional and residential, and have amassed special expertise in the field of art galleries and museums, residential and the restaurant/entertainment sector.
Whilst being very much design focused, the practice has an overriding interest in the pragmatics and feasibility of construction. There is considerable hands-on building experience amongst the personnel, and buildings are carefully detailed with construction methods in mind.