Auckland Design Manual Blog

During the 20th century of car-dominated movement, when streets grew wider and motorways fuelled suburban expansion, some smaller streets were completely forgotten. Traditionally providing access to the rear of buildings, these narrow lanes, or laneways, present a unique opportunity to extend, diversify and provide some inner city magic to the public realm.   Leftover from […]

  Back in the 1950s, before the tram lines were ripped out, shoppers perambulating up and down the escalator-shaped mass that is our Queen Street would have been able to smell the ocean. These days, that ocean scent is a masked somewhat by exhaust fumes, as around 60,000 drivers a day stream into the CBD, […]

It’s all too easy to forget the long hours of planning and elbow grease that go into transforming Auckland. Here’s a short retrospective time-lapse of Federal Street undergoing its first phase of transformation. Click the following link to view: Transforming Federal Street Thanks  Auckland Council, SkyCity, Auckland Transport John Fillmore Contracting Ltd and Boffa Miskell