Ironbank is a 4,500-m², six-level mixed-used (retail and office) development on

Karangahape Road Karangahape Road (commonly known as K' Road) is one of the main streets in the central business district (CBD) of Auckland, New Zealand. The massive expansion of motorways through the nearby inner city area – and subsequent flight of resident ...

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. The building also provides a mechanical, automated car stacker for 96 cars, which the robotic system racks in a four-level storage wall. It also used a variety of environmentally friendly building facilities, such as reduced energy demands due to a design that can dispense with air conditioning. The seven-storey building has both been criticised and lauded for looking like "rusting containers", and an architecture critic noted it reminded him of "kindergarten day in a shipping yard", calling it the "most complex and adventurous building" o
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Samson Corporation
. The building is hoped to achieve 5-star

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certification. In 2009, it received three architecture awards, in the "commercial", "sustainable" and "urban design" categories of the

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Auckland awards sponsored by the paint compan
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It then captured second place at the

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, a European award, making it the best-scoring New Zealand entrant ever at the festival, and being praised for "Its sophisticated attitude to the messy urbanity of south-central Auckland". It was also mentioned in a ''

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'' series where prominent Aucklanders nominated outstanding Auckland buildings constructed since 2000. Urban designer

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(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludo_Campbell-Reid Accessed 2020-10-12.) specifically noted that the building was greater than the sum of its parts, that it would help re-invigorate Karangahape Road and its backstreets, and that unlike most buildings, it looked better from the back than from the front side.

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