Commercial
Walker Group Architects has designed commercial buildings and interiors in New Zealand since 1932. Retail stores, restaurants and food courts, offices, shopping centres, cinemas and hotels, at every scale from a single tenancy to a town centre.
No matter how big or complex the project, our goal is to exceed expectations by providing detailed documentation and exceptional service. We are dedicated to completing projects within the agreed upon time and budget, guaranteeing complete satisfaction.
A 2.9 hectare fun park and sculpted bird aviary at Taupo, planned around the site's mature trees and water.
An award winning mixed use development incorporating a successful meeting of retail, entertainment and office within an indoor / outdoor town centre mall development.
This new building had to be exciting, and memorable and exude the notion of entertainment.
These apartments are generous in size, boasting high studs, an open plan kitchen and a dining area, ideal for entertaining with lots of glass for light-filled, spacious living.
The openness of the traditional Falae and transparency through the adjacent office building at ground level provides clear sight-lines that reinforce the legibility of entry points.
A small multiplex for Reel Cinemas in Dubai. Walker Cinema Architect’s brief for this particular cinema was to have a slightly industrial feel.
The rich red and blue colour scheme, contracted with multiply colour lighting and texture, creates a unique experience in the main ticket and concessions areas
‘A Third Way’ is our proposition to leave the earthquake-damaged Christchurch Cathedral as a preserved ruin and which would allow for a new purpose-built cathedral to suit the modern requirements of the Anglican Church on another site.
Large open simple floor plates connect to the existing atrium passage between the main street and urban courtyard.
Multiplex complexes offer cinema patrons a wider choice of film, while at the same time reducing overheads and maintenance for the cinema operator.
A rich and luxurious, but a refined interior, both in the foyer and in the seven independent auditoria.
A complex including a number a buildings with similar materials repeated in different ways and each provided with a different feel surrounding car parking.
An honest and lasting quality where its architecture and presence reflects the New Zealand environment and local culture it’s placed within.
The building consists of 4 floors. Ground and first floors are retail while Levels 2 and 3 are offices.

