Weaver Reserve Altona | Plumbing Project

B:Hive is the first step in the transformation of a twentieth-century office park on Auckland's North Shore to a co-working hub. This is a new, progressive model of workplace that recognises that people’s different workstyles affect how and where they work best.

Recently, compact design has gained much popularity as a solution to a denser and more expensive space in cities around the world. In terms of functionality, compact design boasts its spatial flexibility—being able to cover multiple needs within one space. If most compact designs are usually applied for residential buildings, the recently finished Deloitte Center for the Edge (Asia Pacific) office in Singapore explores the possibilities of this design approach for a shared space.

By considering and unifying the site planning, architecture, landscape and phasing of the project, Studio PHH Architects were able to leverage the entirety of the site while producing a cohesive proposal based on local building materials and construction techniques.