Sungard Office Building
By Sheppard & Rout Architects
Overlooking Christchurch’s Addington Raceway, the SunGard building attempts to sympathise with its surrounding industrial context through simple and robust forms. Furthermore, the building continues the Christchurch tradition of 1960’s and 70’s expressive concrete office buildings.
The plan avoids the typical central core solution and places it along the perimeter of the building in the north-west corner, while the secondary egress stair is also moved to the outside of the main building envelope to provide an expressive element that gains impressive views. As a result a simple and adaptable rectangular office space is provided while also allowing the entire floor views out across the raceway.
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We aim to produce humanist architecture comprised of stimulating and inspirational spaces and places.
We are a design-based practice that believes in providing tailor-made solutions to an individual client's needs. The fundamental objective of the practice is to develop architecture that is appropriate to its specific site, wider context and intended use while being robust, flexible and environmentally-aware.
These variables are used along with the appropriate structural considerations to develop buildings with well-suited form and style, instead of approaching the design from a stylistic standpoint.
The practice was established in 1982 in Christchurch by David Sheppard and Jonty Rout. In its 40 years the practice has carried out a wide range of projects covering many types and in numerous geographic locations. The founding partners brought to the practice extensive design and construction experience gained while working with other offices in both New Zealand and overseas. Tim Dagg joined Sheppard & Rout in 1986 and Jasper van der Lingen in 1993 and they both joined David Sheppard as Directors in 2006.
With David Sheppard now retired and Jonty very sadly passed away the practice is led by Directors Jasper van der Lingen and Tim Dagg and three Associate Directors; Matt Gutsell, Jonathan Kennedy and Steven Orr.
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