Waterview Connection / Warren and Mahoney
Dubbed a project of ?national significance? by our government, the New Zealand Transport Agency?s Waterview Connection was conceptualised to improve Auckland?s transport network.
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Architects: Warren and Mahoney
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Lead Architects: Shannon Joe, Tom Locke
Other Participants : Warren and Mahoney in partnership with the Well Connected Alliance team comprising NZTA, Fletcher Construction, McConnell Dowell Constructors, Parsons Brinkerhoff NZ, Beca Infrastructure, Tonkin and Taylor, Boffa Miskell and Obayashi Corporation
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Sam Hartnett
© Sam Hartnett
Text description provided by the architects. Dubbed a project of ?national significance? by our government, the New Zealand Transport Agency?s Waterview Connection was conceptualised to improve Auckland?s transport network.
© Sam Hartnett
Opening up the Western Ring and airport routes with two, 2.5-kilometre parallel tunnels, it provides a safer, less-congested and more time-efficient alternative to complex drives around suburbia. Passing through some of Auckland?s most densely-populated neighbourhoods, there was no doubt that the Connection was needed ? but as the largest infrastructure project undertaken in the country to date, local views and ancestral M?ori ties to land were of paramount concern.
© Sam Hartnett
The six-year process, which invo...
© Sam Hartnett
Architects: Warren and Mahoney
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Lead Architects: Shannon Joe, Tom Locke
Other Participants : Warren and Mahoney in partnership with the Well Connected Alliance team comprising NZTA, Fletcher Construction, McConnell Dowell Constructors, Parsons Brinkerhoff NZ, Beca Infrastructure, Tonkin and Taylor, Boffa Miskell and Obayashi Corporation
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Sam Hartnett
© Sam Hartnett
Text description provided by the architects. Dubbed a project of ?national significance? by our government, the New Zealand Transport Agency?s Waterview Connection was conceptualised to improve Auckland?s transport network.
© Sam Hartnett
Opening up the Western Ring and airport routes with two, 2.5-kilometre parallel tunnels, it provides a safer, less-congested and more time-efficient alternative to complex drives around suburbia. Passing through some of Auckland?s most densely-populated neighbourhoods, there was no doubt that the Connection was needed ? but as the largest infrastructure project undertaken in the country to date, local views and ancestral M?ori ties to land were of paramount concern.
© Sam Hartnett
The six-year process, which invo...
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