Located on Front Street, Hamilton is a recent example of the detailed development advice that Butterworth Associates & Design Limited have been called upon to give its clients. The holding company, faced with an inevitable modification programme forced by required system upgrades, asked Butterworth Associates & Design Limited to advise on the remaining development potential of their property, the feasibility of realising the potential and the likely cost of the work. Design Limited were also able to give further advice on the complex phasing of the work schedule so as to minimize the amount of disruption to the company's core business.
This project continued the use of the services of a combined architect/engineering consultant relationship with the client. The project commenced construction in February 2005 and was completed in the late Fall of 2006.The finished building has changed very little since its concept sketches.
The original building on the site was a very “iconic” part of the traditional architecture of Hamilton’s picturesque Front Street shopping area. The new building has been designed to re-create the icon (without slavishly copying every detail) and echoes the traditional two and three storey buildings of this famous street. The upper office floors have been designed to loosely replicate the vista of a roofscape receding behind the department store frontage. The Reid Street elevation uses the same construction details as the Front Street façade but conforms to the planning requirements of that street.
The building has been widely acclaimed publically and was nominated for design award consideration, which it won!
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