Tele­com Place in Pictures

Photo gal­lery: The bridges, fur­niture, col­our and style of Auckland's biggest cor­por­ate cathed­ral – Tele­com Place.
Pho­tos by Simon Devitt. Find the full story in ProDesign 110.

Architect’s notes: The interior design at Tele­com Place was a real col­lab­or­a­tion of archi­tec­ture and work­place design skills. Design dir­ector Andrew Barclay, from War­ren and Mahoney, says: “The design team involved in the primary phys­ical design of the interior archi­tec­ture included archi­tect Blair John­ston and interior designer Asha Page who gen­er­ated the concept of col­oured glass ver­tical fins to frame the cli­ent touch­down spaces on the arrival floor. The abil­ity for cli­ents and Tele­com people to meet and work in eas­ily access­ible ‘neut­ral’ ter­rit­ory was essen­tial to the new and open way in which the com­pany wanted to do business.”

This concept sup­ple­ments the other much more secure meet­ing suite and board­room which is concierge-monitored and com­pletely discreet.

The key to trans­lat­ing the Tele­com brand into built real­ity lay to some extent in the estab­lish­ment of a nat­ural and tact­ile mater­ial palette. “The stone floor slabs, the tim­ber battened ceil­ings and the selec­tion of col­ours all echo the New Zea­l­and char­ac­ter without dir­ect ref­er­ence to imagery. The idea is to allow for change and inter­pret­a­tion through­out the life of the ten­ancy,” says Blair Johnston.

Share/Save