Builders putting up Auckland's tallest new apartment tower are three-quarters of the way to the top of the $100 million job.
Tuesday, October 25th 2005, 7:45AM
by The Landlord
The 378-unit, 38-level central-Auckland Residences@Harbour City has soared to level 29 but still has a further nine levels to go and only high spring winds have hampered fast progress.
New Zealand's largest collection of lawyers and corporates watched with some surprise this month as a portable toilet was hoisted by crane to the top of the tower, which is now partially obscuring waterfront views in the Vero Centre.
Residences is rising in front of the country's most prestigious office block, the $226 million 3.9ha Vero spanning Shortland and Fort Sts.
But Dan Ashby, managing director of builder Multiplex Constructions (NZ), encouraged the Vero tenants to have some consideration for the needs of construction workers.
Waterfront views from the offices of tenants which include Bell Gully, Russell McVeagh, Vero, Goldman Sachs, JB Were and ABN Amro are being partly obscured by the new block which stands between the Vero Centre and the waterfront.
