The Block

 

PHOTO: DAVID WHITE/HOMED It’s all happening out the back of the old firehouse – this is The Block NZ: Firehouse building. The fully glazed apartments look south towards Eden Park.

If you’ve been to a match at Eden Park recently, you will have had a good view of the rear of The Block NZ: Firehouse site, although you may not have recognised it.

What’s happening with the apartment conversions at the Kingsland former fire station site is still top secret, but there’s quite a bit we can see already.

We know the building, which had been a 17-room boarding house in recent years, has been completely gutted and rebuilt with an extra storey, which is a glass-walled penthouse. And now we can see the other four apartments’ new fully glazed walls and possible decks on the south side looking out towards Eden Park, where the land drops away.

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