The proposal includes renovation of the existing office building that transforms it into a landscape art gallery, and an exterior timber pavilion structure with pedestrian platforms that links the building.

The site is located at a pivotal point in the Auckland city centre. It is a zone with rich historical value, especially the heritage of Auckland land reclamation. However, you can see nothing about shore or other natural elements but a concrete jungle in the existing site envrionment.

In the book The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Charles Waldheim describes the landscape as a medium to solve the problems of contemporary cities and the infrastructure of the future to support urban development, to preserve the vitality of natural systems and regional cultures. I believe the site is more than suitable for landscape development, honouring the history, culture, and connecting the separated space. 

This design fades the border between building and landscape (as well as indoor and outdoor space) and honours the original shoreline by integrating urban hard-scape and natural soft-scape.