PHOTO: SUPPLIED An illustration of a new 12-storey base isolated building at 1 Whitmore Street, Wellington, whose development will be managed by Newcrest and it will be leased by BNZ as their new headquarters in the capital.
Bank of New Zealand is to have a new earthquake-resilient and “green” 12-storey building as headquarters for its 1500 hundred staff in Wellington.
It will replace the BNZ’s former landmark headquarters, a fairly new building on Waterloo Quay and owned by Wellington port company, Centreport, which was badly damaged in the November 2016 Kaikoura earthquake and is now being deconstructed and demolished.
The new building will be constructed on the 1 Whitmore Street site where a Z Energy petrol station stands. Key resilience features are base-isolation and a diagrid structure, as well a Green Star design.
BNZ expects to occupy the building in 2023.
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