Tait Communications Fit-Out

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Tait Communications unique workplace environment incorporates a public lounge, café and event facility as an extension to private workspaces to facilitate collaboration and public engagement.

Within their private work space, Engineering and administration staff were organised loosely into ‘activity centres’ with custom and proprietary joinery for personal and team work. Adjacent ‘collaborative pods’ allowed more flexible modes of presenting and critiquing work.

An open array of ‘seating landscapes’ within the entrance atrium caters to public exchange.  Our custom designed collaborative couches and complementary ottomans and side tables are a comfortable solution for informal small groups. Offering scalability through recombination for larger more organised events. These patterns were inspired by local volcanic geology of Banks Peninsula and the latent seating options within Scoria rock along the shore line.

 

Type: Commercial Workplace Strategy, Soft Fitout and Custom Furniture

Client: Tait Communications

Team: Hamish Shaw, Andrea Burgos, Jeremy Bailey, Silvia Pisano

Size: 3000 sqm

Location: 249 Wooldrige Road, Christchurch

Status: Completed

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Hamish Shaw Architects is a contemporary, multi-disciplinary studio practicing in the fields of architecture, design and urbanism.

The studio was founded in 2014 by Hamish Shaw after 12 years collaborating with leading architects in New Zealand and Canada, on a number of award-winning projects, across civic, commercial, residential, infrastructural and urbanism sectors.

Our practice thrives on complex project briefs, with cultural, social, commercial and environmental imperatives, across urban and outstanding natural landscapes. 

Completed projects include Te Manawa Atawhai – Catherine McAuley Centre, Tait Limited Interior fit-out and custom furniture, boutique accommodation for Wharekaretu, installation within the exhibition ‘Thinking About Building’ for Physics Room Gallery, master plans for three South Island primary and intermediate schools, and a number of mixed-use commercial/multi-residential concept feasibilities for the re-emerging city of Christchurch.

Current projects include a 20-hectare residential master plan in Christchurch, a boutique mixed-use development in Lyttelton, a pedestrian/cycle bridge in Auckland, a constructed landscape, and pavilions for an estate in Canterbury, and renovation of a historic house in Auckland.

The practice has recently earned national recognition for Te Manawa Atawhai – Catherine McAuley Centre. Receiving a 2018 NZIA Public Architecture Award for the Canterbury Region, shortlisting for the National NZIA Award of Public Architecture, and a finalist placing in the Interior Awards - Craftsmanship category. 

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