Sentinel Apartments
Takapuna, New Zealand

It has provided the city skyline with a chic cosmopolitan structure, successfully received as one of the most luxurious residential apartment towers in New Zealand. In keeping with New Zealand’s cultural heritage the building contains a number of motifs, from the square theme seen in the glass facade proportions and in smaller details, to a woven flax basket hinted at in the latticework of the facade.

Due to poor ground conditions, Brookfield Multiplex laid the piles for the foundation 40 metres below the basement level. The tower levels 4 to 33 have been created from in-situ concrete with a structural steel flooring system and in-situ slab topping. The facade consists of an external painted concrete frame.

• The 33 storey