This project was the first of five new buildings that ASC Architects completed on Epsom Girls Grammar School site over the course of 10 years.

The school underwent significant expansion fueled by exploding immigration into the Auckland CBD, with the roll going from around 1500 to over 2000 students. This growth occurred on a site that was only ever large enough to accommodate 1000 students.

Interior fit out projects can provide designers with exciting opportunities to explore ideas of space, representation, image, comfort and function - all in specific regard to a particular user group or activity.

This design project afforded such an opportunity - we were to create a public/private interface for the offices in the BJ Ball building in Graham Street, where the council was to move.

Somerville Intermediate is a co-educational school intelligently designed to accommodate 700 students in Auckland's eastern suburb of Howick.

Extensive research and community consultation led us to develop a whanau (extended-family-within-the-school) concept in buildings flexible enough to provide 21st century learning environments.

When first purchased by McDonald’s the Taradale Hotel was to be demolished to make way for a new standard McDonald’s restaurant. After many discussions with the Art Deco Trust the decision was made to keep the ‘base’ building and convert it into the first McDonald’s Art Deco restaurant in New Zealand.

The advertising agency wanted a semi open plan working environment that enabled the strong interplay between creative and business executives to occur naturally.

Consequently, our fit out of the attic floor of this waterfront building was one of the very earliest open plan office work spaces developed in Auckland. Even though architects had been working in this sort of environment for decades, the benefits of open plan had not yet filtered to other business sectors.

Ronald McDonald House is a home away from home for families of children with life threatening conditions who are receiving treatment at Auckland Hospital.

We were commissioned to deliver from concept design through to the provision of construction management services and, subsequently, to complete two major extensions to the house.

The National Bank's objective was for the new building to convey its culture of innovation and excellence to its customers. The building was the first to be constructed in Karangahape Road under then-new road facade design guidelines. Specific criteria included an appearance complementary to adjoining buildings, a continuity of facade levels, and a proportion of solid material and voids and glass of at least 50 per cent.

Simple materials such as corrugated steel cladding, structural steel and cedar cladding have contributed to the evolution of an inspired beach house located on a site with spectacular views to offshore islands on the Coromandel Peninsula.

In keeping with the clients’ expectations of a simple holiday lifestyle, a terracotta floor that extends to an outside terrace reinforces a casual dialogue between internal and external spaces.