BTOOK 2 AYL ORCHAN
CITY MASTER PLAN 2012 PART III
CHRONOLOGY OF BRITOMART POLITICS
Taylor Chan
B R I T O M A R TIMELINE
Overlaid map of land reclaimation
1860
Britomart Point demolished, filling used to reclaim the Britomart area.
1840
Fort Britomart Established.
Auckland City Waterfront
1883
Reclamation completed.
1882
Reclaimed land for sale
CPO (Chief Post Office)
1909
Chief Post office construction begins.
1885
Queen Street Station opens.
Gathering during official opening ceremony.
1930
Auckland Railway Station opens on Beach Road.
1912
Chief Post office opens.
Quay Street
1958
Britomart Carpark Opens.
1937
Britomart Bus Terminal Opens.
Harbour Bridge under construction
1973
Britomart Underground Station Proposed.
1959
Harbour Bridge opens.
Queen Elizabeth Square
1987
Britomart Development proposal and cancellation due to stock market crash.
1980
Queen Elizabeth Square Opens
Britomart Bus Station
2002
Chief Post Office begins. Queen Elizabeth Square Closed.
2000 Rail Tunnel
completed. Station Resource consent granted
Downtown Shopping centre site
2012
AMP NZ Office (Precinct Properties) buys Auckland’s downtown shopping centre
NOW? 2004
Britomart Transport Centre Complete
POWER/ OWNERS
- Development of the City Rail Link and
$1.6 billion landlord Precinct Properties - Downtown Westfield - AMP NZ Office - Zurich House - PWC tower - AMP Centre
MEDIA/ POLITICS “Precinct upbeat on tower” “Plan to demolish shopping centre for Central Rail Link” “Ships and shoppers drive lower Queen St revamp” “Britomart ready for next journey after 10 years” “Lower Queen St the place to be for retailers”
REVITALISATION OF THE WATERFRONT Significant move 1 in 2012 Master Plan
Unification of the Waterfront with the City.
HARBOUR EDGE STITCH Significant move 2 in 2012 Master Plan
Stitching together the parts of the city which are fragmented and work together as a whole.
THE EVENTFUL CITY PART IV
Auckland City is one of the most prominent developing city centres in the world, the downtown shopping mall in Auckland City has the potential to transform into a 24 hour Precinct.
SITE PROBLEMS POLITICS Today the Downtown is ‘fragmented’ in pieces: buildings, trees, zones like a series of totally unrelated notes played with one finger on a piano. Outside, the asphalt and brick pavement lead nowhere. Inside the characteristic heritage surroundings are merely forgotten amidst the chaos. Above the towers are in constant conversation Below, the Railway underpass are concrete walls lined with consumerism. The goal is to link and reconnect these spaces visually and sensually enabling the downtown area to be seen as a whole that is activated at all times of the day.
SHOULD A CITY EVER STOP?
SITE CHALLENGES: COMMERCIALISATION “We need a more vibrant capital market. We need to get the general public engaged with the market. One of the ways is to display information where they can see it.”
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Time Mapping TIMES OF OCCUPATION Ground Floor
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PROPOSAL Downtown Mixed-use plaza that invites Creation of a
that attracts and invites the public to stay.
large promenading spine running through Queen st to Quay A
street visually connecting the sea and downtown plaza.
All at a human scale no higher than
6 stories.
Broad inviting steps that don’t tell you whether to sit down or to keep walking; but rather invite both.
Cafes and bars on the fringes that connect the exterior with the interior. A project which makes the commercial/economic scale spaces more humane and habitable.
1912 Chief Post office opens.
SITE CHALLENGES: COMMERCIALISATION
1937 Britomart Bus Terminal Opens.
completed. Station Resource consent granted
Mapping PUBLIC VS PRIVATE Ground Floor
2002
2012
Chief Post Office begins. Queen Elizabeth Square Closed.
AMP NZ Office (Precinct Properties) buys Auckland’s downtown shopping centre
$1.6 billion landlord Precinct Properties
2004
- Downtown Westfield - AMP NZ Office - Zurich House - PWC tower - AMP Centre
Britomart Transport Centre Complete
Time Mapping TIMES OF OCCUPATION Ground Floor
Downtown Mixed-use plaza that invites Creation of a
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“Britomart ready for next journey after 10 years” “Lower Queen St the place to be for retailers”
All at a human scale no higher than
6 stories.
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ET STR E REE T EN S T QUE
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large promenading spine running through Queen st to Quay
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QUA Y ST REE
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Significant move 2 in 2012 Master Plan
“Plan to demolish shopping centre for Central Rail Link”
Unification of the Waterfront with the City.
PROPOSAL
that attracts and invites the public to stay.
The goal is to link and reconnect these spaces visually and sensually enabling the downtown area to be seen as a whole that is activated at all times of the day.
Significant move 1 in 2012 Master Plan
HARBOUR EDGE STITCH
“Ships and shoppers drive lower Queen St revamp”
“We need a more vibrant capital market. We need to get the general public engaged with the market. One of the ways is to display information where they can see it.”
Below, the Railway underpass are concrete walls lined with consumerism.
SHOULD A CITY EVER STOP?
Queen Elizabeth Square Opens
Site DOWNTOWN BRITOMART
Above the towers are in constant conversation
Auckland City is one of the most prominent developing city centres in the world, the downtown shopping mall in Auckland City has the potential to transform into a 24 hour Precinct.
2000 Rail Tunnel
1980
1959 Harbour Bridge opens.
ALB ER T
PART IV
Inside the characteristic heritage surroundings are merely forgotten amidst the chaos.
1885 Queen Street Station opens.
CES
THE EVENTFUL CITY
1882 Reclaimed land for sale
PRIN
Outside, the asphalt and brick pavement lead nowhere.
1987
Britomart Development proposal and cancellation due to stock market crash.
- Development of the City Rail Link and
NOW?
LOW ER
Today the Downtown is ‘fragmented’ in pieces: buildings, trees, zones like a series of totally unrelated notes played with one finger on a piano.
1973
Britomart Underground Station Proposed.
GO R E ST REE T
SITE PROBLEMS POLITICS
opens on Beach Road.
HAR F
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1958 Britomart Carpark Opens.
QUE ENS W
Established.
1930 Auckland Railway Station
ET
1840 Fort Britomart
1909
Chief Post office construction begins.
CE S TRE
POLITICS
1883
Reclamation completed.
WH A RF
CHRONOLOGY OF BRITOMART
1860
Britomart Point demolished, filling used to reclaim the Britomart area.
CES
PART III
MEDIA/ POLITICS “Precinct upbeat on tower”
PRIN
CITY MASTER PLAN 2012
B R I T O M A R TIMELINE
POWER/ OWNERS
REVITALISATION OF THE WATERFRONT
street visually connecting the sea and downtown plaza.
Broad inviting steps that don’t tell you whether to sit down or to keep walking; but rather invite both.
Cafes and bars on the fringes that connect the exterior with the interior. A project which makes the commercial/economic scale spaces more humane and habitable.
Stitching together the parts of the city which are fragmented and work together as a whole.