Project Cost: $25M

Architect: Peddle Thorp

Project Director: Cameron MacPherson

Project Description:

Nine-storey carparking building with ground floor retail. The total building floor area is 22,500 square metres, providing 576 carparks in total.

Structural features include steel frame construction with innovative Buckling Restrained Brace (BRB) seismic resisting system, and a composite steel deck floor system. The layout has been refined to ensure maximum structural efficiency considering ten different options of floor configurations.

Project Cost: $20M

Architect: Peddle Thorp

Project Director: Cameron MacPherson

Project Description:

Ballantynes is an icon in of the retail sector in Christchurch, and was one of the first landmark businesses to open in the CBD following the Christchurch earthquakes.

Only four levels have been built of this 7,500 square metre retail and carpark project, but the building has been designed for another two levels on top.

Some of the engineering challenges involved a title split running through the building requiring a full seismic joint of this moment resisting frame IL3 structure, and some challenging issues around adjacent basements and underpinning.

This development won a National Category Award and Gold Award at the 2021 NZ Commercial Project Awards.