Silverscreen Productions / Oktobor

NZIA New Zealand Award, 2003
NZIA Local Award, 2002

A thoughtful redevelopment of a cluster of inner city commercial and warehouse buildings has created two distinct identities for two creative companies, Silverscreen, a film production company and Oktobor, a post-production facility. The contrast between the needs of each business - the highly-controlled environments required for moving image technologies versus the more spacious areas favoured for creative thinking - led HMA to organise the hermetic workspaces around common, open spaces. These are naturally ventilated and flooded with light. The Oktobor building cantilevers a compressed-sheet volume, containing computer suites, over a glazed band below. The Silverscreen building links offices, staff facilities and project spaces around a luminous central atrium. This building is capped by a sophisticated penthouse office and apartment.

“A robustly articulated architecture satisfies a complex brief from a client with a forward thinking attitude to the working environment”, NZIA Awards Jury, 2002.