Luxury Industrial Balcony Ideas and Designs
Carlton Edwards
This level incorporates a two-story library and mezzanine. All of this overlooks a central atrium space that connects three of the upper levels. There is an existing large skylight. This central atrium volume has staircases that connect each level. The staircases are steel with antique Heart Pine timber treads. On the upper level, the floors are all antique Heart Pine.
Greg Boudouin, Interiors
Alyssa Rosenheck: Photos
StairworksMost people who have lived in Auckland for a long time remember The Heritage Grand Tearoom, a beautiful large room with an incredible high-stud art-deco ceiling. So we were beyond honoured to be a part of this, as projects of these types don’t come around very often.
Because The Heritage Grand Tea Room is a Heritage site, nothing could be fixed into the existing structure. Therefore, everything had to be self-supporting, which is why everything was made out of steel. And that’s where the first challenge began.
The first step was getting the steel into the space. And due to the lack of access through the hotel, it had to come up through a window that was 1500x1500 with a 200 tonne mobile crane. We had to custom fabricate a 9m long cage to accommodate the steel with rollers on the bottom of it that was engineered and certified. Once it was time to start building, we had to lay out the footprints of the foundations to set out the base layer of the mezzanine. This was an important part of the process as every aspect of the build relies on this stage being perfect. Due to the restrictions of the Heritage building and load ratings on the floor, there was a lot of steel required. A large part of the challenge was to have the structural fabrication up to an architectural quality painted to a Matte Black finish.
The last big challenge was bringing both the main and spiral staircase into the space, as well as the stanchions, as they are very large structures. We brought individual pieces up in the elevator and welded on site in order to bring the design to life.
Although this was a tricky project, it was an absolute pleasure working with the owners of this incredible Heritage site and we are very proud of the final product.
ECOFIREPLACES FIREPLACESFloor Ecofireplace Fire Pit with ECO 20 burner, weathering Corten steel base and rustic demolition railway sleeper wood* encasing. Thermal insulation made of fire-retardant treatment and refractory tape applied to the burner.
ECOFIREPLACES FIREPLACESPortable Ecofireplace with ECO 36 burner and recycled, discarded agricultural plow disks weathering Corten steel encasing and legs. Thermal insulation made of rock wool bases and refractory tape applied to the burner.
Luxury Industrial Balcony Ideas and Designs
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