25-27 Landing Drive

Located 3 minutes drive from Auckland Airport, The Landing is a multiple award-winning business park and home to New Zealand’s logistical, technological and light commercial sectors.  The latest addition at 25-37 Landing Drive comprises two new warehouses and ancillary offices, with yard space.  Designed as a single contiguous structure, the two warehouses are separated by a full height internal wall.  Warehouse A provides 10,366m2 with an additional 225m2 of office space on each of the two floors.  Warehouse B is smaller at 5,592m2 with an adjoining single level office adding a further 317m2.  

Both of the offices feature the same use of louvres for shading and aesthetic features.  They come down from the roofline, ending where they reach the curved eyelash feature that arches up from the ground to different heights depending on their location.  Those arches are most pronounced in the centre of the feature, with shorter louvres used where the arches climb to a height similar to the office roofline, at the point they connect to the warehouses.  

Solaris 150x50 louvres are used to create an impactful feature, with different blade lengths used to span from the roofline to where they reach the curved steel eyelash structure.  On office A, a total of 118 louvre blades were used, with 48 used on the single story office space at Office B.  Fixed at 300mm centres, the blades were supported by steel tab upstands at the base of the curved eyelash, and to a secondary steel structure behind the louvres where longer spans are required.  All louvres were finished in a standard Duratec powdercoat with a 25 year coating warranty.  

The warehouses at 25-27 Landing Drive add to the strong design philosophy underpinning the development by Auckland International Airport Limited.  The distinctive chamfered louvre blades of the Solaris range offer shade and style as part of a sophisticated aesthetic that is gaining attention, and possibly an award, as a finalist in the 2024 Property Industry Awards. 

Architect  Jonathan Walker Architects     Contractor  Q Construction

Location  Auckland