Wellington. My first multi-storey frame building in my first year out of University of Canterbury. Secondary elements including the brick facing walls were seismically separated in 1964! Office, S.S & P
1969 - Canterbury Frozen Meat Building, Cashel St
Christchurch. Office Warren & Mahoney. One of the early “standard Christchurch office building.” Precast 3mx3m window unit facades on several walls. Shear walls at each end in blockwork.
1968 - Christchurch Milk Company
Christchurch, Blenheim Rd. Industrial Now madow Fresh. Simple Trengrove & Marshall architecture still evident despite nurouse alterations since 1967.
1970s
1972 - Christchurch Town Hall
Public. Christchurch. One of Warren & Mahoney’s masterpieces recognised & admired world-wide. I designed the engineering for the James Hay Theatre.
1973 - Travelodge (Queens Plaza Queenstown)
Warren & Mahoney. Queenstown Travelodge Hotel (Now the Queens Plaza Queenstown) This terraced 7-storey building stretched the limits of reinforced concrete blockwork. Located alongside the Queenstown Warf. Still the most attractive hotel in Queenstown.
1977 - Waiouru Army Museum
Public. A Warren & Mahoney “fort” in a very prominent SHW1 site in central North Island which has enjoyed enduring popularity. Every “little boy’s” must see.
1979 - Embassy Chancery
Washington DC. Warren & Mahoney. Public. An exercise in gravity loads. No earthquakes, modest wind loads, complex brick faced. Excellent local builder.
1972 - Christchurch Town Hall
1973 - Travelodge (Queens Plaza Queenstown)
1977 - Waiouru Army Museum
1979 - Embassy Chancery
1984 - St Patricks Cathedral
1986 - Christs College Admin & Dining Hall
1985 - Trustbank/Westpac Building
1980s
1984 - St Patricks Cathedral
Napier, Warren & Mahoney. Religious. Simple tilt up “circular” wall building with simple timber roof. Elegant and economic.
1986 - Christs College Admin & Dining Hall
Christchurch. Warren & Mahoney. Educational. The hall was strengthened in architectural sympathy with the 1925 Cecil Wood Dining Hall, with roof bracing and loads transferred to the new Admin building. A technique often copied in subsequent years. Required architectural courage and confidence.
1985 - Trustbank/Westpac Building
Christchurch. Office. A dramatic 12 storey office building with a hexagonal floor plan generated by the street plan geometry. The 15-metre precast concrete trusses on 6 sides were heavily reinforced. Sadly damaged and demolished after 2010/11 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence.
1990s
1993 - Hong Kong Stadium
Hong Kong. Public. Built over two years by French company Dagage. Elegant in situ main frames supporting precast bleachers, and a modest roof over seating clad in plastic film. Maximum seating capacity of 40,000.
1992-97 - NZ Parliament Building strengthening
Wellington. Warren & Mahoney. Public. Separated the two buildings from their original foundation and installed lead-rubber base isolated solution to ensure the buildings can withstand a 7.5 earthquake. A major project for the NZ building industry. Very close to Wellington fault.
1998 - Haeco Aircraft Maintenance Hangar at Chek Lap Kok
Industrial. Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok. $1.6B, 130,000 sqm project. Major cantilever steel roof fabricated in UK and supported on 5 storey reinforced service building. Built on reclaimed sand which was settling. A nervous wait as the roof settled over the giant motorized doors. 18 maintenance positions, support shops, bonded stores, internationally-compliant paint bays and testing laboratories.
1993 - Hong Kong Stadium
1992-97 - NZ Parliament Building strengthening
1998 - Haeco Aircraft Maintenance Hangar at Chek Lap Kok
2003 - Kam Tin Railway Station & HO Control Building
2002 - Ruby Bay House
2000s
2003 - Kam Tin Railway Station & HO Control Building
Hong Kong. RMJM. Railway. Westrail Project. Cosmopolitan work force including Spanish Contractor. Construction a fairly conventional mix of precast and in situ. Introduced use of blockwork in lieu of 6m high, 100 thick reinforced walls and eliminated granite paving in carpark.
2002 - Ruby Bay House
Christchurch. Warren & Mahoney. Educational. The hall was strengthened in architectural sympathy with the 1925 Cecil Wood Dining Hall, with roof bracing and loads transferred to the new Admin building. A technique often copied in subsequent years. Required architectural courage and confidence.
2010s
2012 - Transpower Substation Haywards
Wellington RMJM. Industrial. Generally many proaci in situ small structures, although main value Hall featured some ambitious precast. Logistics of transport huge 120 tonne transformers from ship by barge and multi tractor haulage units – an exciting challenge, not to mention various associated retaining situations on site.
2017 - COSA Hotel
Christchurch. Columbo/Salisbury. TD. Hotel.
2018 - Maurice Mahoney House Rebuild
A Warren & Mahoney classic. House. Pentlow Place, Christchurch. Modest house exquisitely detailed, designed and built.
2012 - Transpower Substation Haywards
2017 - COSA Hotel
2018 - Maurice Mahoney House Rebuild
2021 - Historic Woolshed Restoration
2022 - Augusta Road Retaining Wall.
COSA Hotel (Colombo & Salisbury)
2020s
2022 - 66 Oxford Tce Strengthening
Christchurch. 13-storey apartment building strengthening using radical rocking wall design and utilising Tectonus-energy absorbing devices. Awarded 2024 retrofit award at Institution of Structural Engineers in London.
2021 - Historic Woolshed Restoration
Warren & Mahoney/S&R. Rural. Build in the 1880’s, this old 3 stand timber woolshed was also damaged by the earthquakes. Repairing and extending big structural timber in close cooperation with the builders/
2022 - Augusta Road Retaining Wall.
Christchurch, Redcliffs. Infrastructure. Loess deposits are common on the Pot Hills. This wind-blown rock flour is common throughout the world in areas subject to Fohn winds. It has a remarkable ability to stand unsupported until it gets water on it, or rain. This case is common where a platform for a house has been cut into the loess bank, treated with superficial concrete protection which has failed in a downpour. The owner building has done a superb job of the Highway Standard replacement retaining wall.
COSA Hotel (Colombo & Salisbury)
Christchurch. Supervision role of 15mx4m module job, designed and fabricated in Vietnam. Obvious lack of seismic expertise evident in Vietnamese and Australian teams. Foundations and ground floor steel supporting frames essentially a shambles, as was other seismic design in upper floors. Modular system was very efficient to erect but follow up for fire and weathering was very complex.
Contact
P 021 454 433
45 Rossall St Christchurch
Russell Poole
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