5 Mile Shopping Centre

RetailCommercial
Written By Stephen Roke

Queenstown, New Zealand

A central on-level community parking area enclosed on three sides by a complex including four buildings with similar materials repeated in different ways and each provided with a different feel.

 
The centre from the car park, held low against the Remarkables
Building 1 on Grants Road, the pylon sign and perforated mesh sunshade that mark the entry
The colonnade along the shopfronts, sheltering the walk in from the car park
The crossing to the supermarket entry under a deep timber canopy
The presentation model, four buildings set around one on-level car park
The Countdown frontage, the area's first supermarket
 
Timber and steel canopies over the smaller shops
 

Entering the Franklin area of Queenstown from Cromwell and Alexandria on state highway 16, at the corner of Grants Road and next to the airport, is a new mall
with the area’s first Countdown supermarket, realised as the first of two stages for a new retail and commercial centre of some 28,000 m2 for Queenstown.

A central on-level community parking area enclosed on three sides by a complex including four buildings with similar materials repeated in different ways and each provided with a different feel:

Building 1, on the east, is a two storey building with commercial and banking retail at ground level and first-floor offices. With a giant pre cast pylon sign, it is gateway and entry to the site. Its facade on Grants Road is curtained in a large mesh sunshade wall perforated for light and signage and supported on exposed steel trusses with planes of glazed and solid canopies projecting outwards from its solid concrete core. The facade comprises tectonic separated plates of metallic tile, precast panel and cedar louvre, separated by ribbons of glass

Project

Client: 5 Mile Shopping Centre

Location: Queenstown, New Zealand

Status: Completed

Stephen Roke
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