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Kaipara Service Centre.

A modern multi-story building designed by HB Architecture, completed in 2022 for the Northland Regional Council, featuring a unique rhombus-shaped footprint, innovative natural lighting solutions, and durable external finishes.

Title:: Kaipara Service Centre
Architect:: HB Architecture
Category:: Commercial/; Office
Completed:: 2022
Building style:: Modern
Client:: Northland Regional Council
Photographers:: Samuel Hartnett
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The Northland Regional Council's “Kaipara Service Centre” is a multi-story project that HB Architecture won through an invited “competition” process. Completed at the end of Aotearoa New Zealand’s SARS Covid-19 “Lockdown”, the culmination of teamwork and tenacity created a well-designed building.

The triangular site, with the long boundary facing north-west, created the opportunity for a rhombus-shaped footprint. The narrow building is ideal for outlook and natural sunlight. Overheating to the west was addressed by installing external louvres over the floor-to-ceiling glazing. This maximised natural light rather than reducing the glazing area. The building has piled foundations below the concrete ground floor, and a structural steel frame supporting the upper-level concrete floor and the steel-framed roof. The external finishes are specialist cladding and glazing systems, profiled steel finished Korok panels to fire-rated boundary walls and profiled steel roof.

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Products used

Viking Torch-On MembranesViking Roofspec

Villaboard™ LiningJames Hardie

Professionals used

HB ArchitectureArchitectsRegent, Northland

James HardieManufacturers and SuppliersAuckland

Metro Performance GlassManufacturers and SuppliersEast Tamaki, Auckland

Viking RoofspecManufacturers and SuppliersAuckland

EXTERIOR WATERPROOFING SUPPLIER

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EXTERIOR WATERPROOFING SUPPLIER

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Dimond RoofingManufacturers and SuppliersAuckland

ReseneManufacturers and SuppliersWānaka, Otago

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Regent, Whangarei, Northland

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HB Architecture. The team at HB Architecture is located in central Whangārei, Northland. We work on a variety of projects across Te Tai Tokerau and Aotearoa, ranging from multiscale commercial to residential. We are a small, grounded team driven to produce architecture that reflects technical discipline and critical thinking blended with creative exploration. HB Architecture’s ethos starts with believing that good architecture does more than meet a brief; it deepens connection to land, to people, and purpose. We prioritise incorporating sustainable strategies, responding to context and community, and building relationships with clients and contractors.