架构师提供的文本描述。这座建筑位于奥克兰(新西兰)CBD边缘的一个历史区域。该网站的正面是位于商业街，这是一个丰富的混合维多利亚和爱德华风格的建筑。近几十年来，这些建筑大多处于不同的失修状态。

Text description provided by the architects. The building is located in an historic area on the edge of Auckland’s (New Zealand) CBD. The front of the site addresses the high street which is dominated by a rich mixture of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. Most of these buildings have fallen into varying states of disrepair over recent decades.

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一种强烈的对比掩盖了这条商业街的城市状况与站点后方平行的服务街相反。后街主要是一条服务小巷，在演变过程中基本上仍未得到开发和规划。因此，它的街景在建筑上是没有考虑的，在外观上也是杂乱无章的。

A strong contrast belies the urban condition of this high street against the parallel service street to the rear of the site. The back street is primarily a service lane and has remained largely undeveloped and unplanned through its evolution. Its streetscape is therefore architecturally unconsidered and haphazard in its appearance.

这座建筑被认为是两条截然不同的街道条件交叉污染的表现。商业街关注的是呈现、展示、礼仪和遗产等概念，而服务通道则涉及服务、送货、混乱和实用。这座大楼利用这个机会解决了这两条街道条件之间的过渡问题。

The building is conceived as a manifestation of a cross contamination of the two contrasting street conditions. The high street being concerned with notions of presentation, display, etiquette and heritage, while the service lane is concerned with servicing, delivery, disorder and utility. The building has taken the opportunity to address a transition between these two street conditions.

 ©  Patrick Reynolds

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这座建筑展示了一个玻璃钢混凝土(GRC)外墙，作为屏蔽工地内部的商业街边缘的“面纱”。这个屏幕被认为是对相邻历史外观的抽象。

The building presents a glass reinforced concrete (GRC) façade as a ‘veil’ to the high street edge screening the site’s interior. This screen has been conceived as an abstraction of the historical facades adjacent.

作为对规模较小的历史街区的一种姿态，我们寻求将建筑形式加以分割，以减轻与中等规模办公大楼相关的潜在质量。因此，5座大楼进一步垂直分割，以明确堆叠的办公室和零售空间的构成，这些空间聚集在一个社会上可持续的工作社区中。

In a gesture to the finely scaled historical neighbourhood, we have sought to fragment the building form to alleviate the potential mass associated with a medium sized office building. Hence, 5 towers are further fragmented vertically to articulate the composition of stacked office and retail spaces gathered into a socially sustainable working community.

 ©  Patrick Reynolds

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这座建筑是以可持续的生态方式设计的，并获得了新西兰绿色建筑委员会的第一批五星绿色建筑评级。

The building is Ecologically Sustainably Designed and has received the first 5 Star As–Built Greenstar rating from the New Zealand Green Building Council.