Papamoa College in Tauranga is a landmark educational design in New Zealand.

As well as being the country's first full secondary school where the 'learning commons' approach to school design is used, it received the highest GreenStar rating of any public secondary school when it opened in February 2011.

This project, for Progressive Enterprises, consists of a new 4500sqm supermarket development, together with associated additional retail and two levels of sub grade parking. The project was challenging since it occupies a whole city block of Newtown which is an inner fringe suburb of central Wellington.

The particular challenges of this project centered around the need to design a building which reflects the small scale intimate character of the Warkworth town centre and at the same time find a way to sleeve a large new supermarket development.

ASC Architects was commissioned to design a new primary school that reflects the latest thinking in educational delivery. At 2,748m2 the school includes a large gymnasium/recreation zone, administration zone, library and four modern learning habitats. It also contains a dedicated learning centre for Kelston Deaf Education Centre students, which is fully integrated and forms a central hub to the school.