The company known for luxury apartment projects in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Monaco, is bringing its Belgian style and European passive design principles to Auckland, with the new central city, 17-level apartment building, Library 27.
Brussels-based firm Eaglestone has chosen Auckland as its first location outside of Europe for a development project, after one of its executives visited on holiday and fell in love with the city.
“He wanted to out something in the city that would be unique to Auckland, and give people here something really special to live in,” says Eaglestone’s New Zealand representative Kim McGregor.
“We are doing something a bit different here, something boutiquey with a bit of flair. “Eaglestone has a great reputation and is well known for quality.”
Library 27 features European styling throughout and offers the design elements European apartment dwellers have come to expect as standard.
From the outside, Library 27’s striking exterior could become an iconic part of the city skyline, with the top floors arranged in distinctive stepped terraces.
Each apartment’s fully tiled bathroom features dual hand basins sitting on a floating wall vanity, while the kitchens have one and a half sinks, even in studio apartments.
Kitchens are fully integrated with Carrera-style stone benchtops and luxury tapware. Also in line with European expectations, apartment buyers will be given the choice of three different bathroom and kitchen colour schemes.
Eaglestone has learned its buyers like light and sunny apartments with high ceilings, so these elements have been factored into the design by Ignite Architects.
The stud height in the living areas is 2.7m, and 2.6m elsewhere. Passive design principles allow natural light to flood the living areas, and there is plenty of ventilation.
Flooring is contemporary wood-look porcelain tiles throughout, and extend from the living areas out to each apartment’s balcony, making the outdoor living space an extension of the interior living area.
Four of the 49 apartments are already sold, but with the Auckland apartment market lacking in confidence, Kim says Eaglestone is holding off on hard marketing until people can see the project is on track.
“18 apartment blocks around the city have recently been abandoned, so we want to give people confidence. “ We want to show people this project is going to be finished, and it’s going to be finished really well,” says Kim.
Nestled in the heart of Auckland’s art district, on a 307sqm site at 27 Rutland Street, neighbouring the Auckland Art Gallery, the Auckland Library, Auckland University, and AUT, and close to Albert Park and Queen Street, Library 27’s location is a major draw card.
Eight of the 17 levels are now complete, and Kim says the project’s main contractor Woodview Construction is performing fantastically, tackling every challenge, sorting out every issue, and forging ahead with the build.
A new display suite will soon be available to view on site, but for now, interested parties can take a look around the site, see the floor plates of levels one to eight, and get a real perspective of the building.
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