Currently the headquarters for HLC, the organisation which has spent the last decade creating a new community at Hobsonville Point, this building was formerly hangars for Catalina seaplanes belonging to the Air Force based at Hobsonville. “We kept the original concrete and steel structure of the roof and hangar doors,” says architect Simon McLean from Cheshire Architects, who designed the refit. “We then glazed what used to be the open hangar doors and inserted a new mezzanine floor into the big, generous vertical volume.” The original steel-and-tin sliding doors were reused as curtain-walling. This lattice-work patterning across the glass is a key visual element, which carries through the space. An industrial-style stairway connects the two hangar areas. The stairway weaves close to the rough concrete walls: a move which allows…
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Interior (Digital) - 1 Issue, Interior Sep/Nov 2018