New Box premises feature innovative fitout
Architect Tim Dorrington says the various fitout features reflect a retro feel enhanced by a standard lamp and hemp drapes.
Auckland design-and-build company Box has moved into the top floor of the former Kiwi bacon factory on New North Road in Kingsland.
The move will allow the company to better showcase products in the warehouse-like office.
Over the past five years the company has expanded from two to 25 staff.
Box shares the 380m2 space with Dorrington Atcheson Architects
The fitout was designed by Sam Elliot of Box and Sam Atcheson of DAA, with the aim of combining old and new features to soften the industrial look of the concrete floors and steel rafters where ethernet cable is suspended.
Instead of a traditional reception desk, visitors are welcomed into an entrance area modelled on a living room where a long leather seat faces cabinetry, with a TV, a jug and toaster from the 50s.
Architect Tim Dorrington says the various fitout features reflect a retro feel enhanced by a standard lamp and hemp drapes.
A former lift shaft once used to transport carcasses between the upper and lower level of the building has become a small meeting room the size of a train cubicle with bench seats facing each other, lit by concrete and bamboo pendant lights.
More contemporary features include an 8m long galley kitchen with gaboon-ply cabinetry, a Dekton Domoos benchtop on one side, and black melamine cabinets with a Silestone Negro Tebas bench on the other.
Chris Hutching for NBR NZ Property Investor
Fri, 08 May 2015
Fri, 08 May 2015
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