211 High Street, Christchurch

Leighs steadily and methodically strengthened the existing structure through new foundations, shear walls, diaphragm floors and roof structures, and then reconfigured the internal spaces as a 33-room luxury boutique hotel.

A 53,000m² concrete and steel mixed-use building with 5 laboratories, a manufacturing facility, distribution centre, and two model shops, two cafeterias, and a large open-plan office space with seven light wells to house large trees & water features.

A 4.5-Star, 3,000m² hotel is comprised of three main forms, two are five storeys high, with a larger, seven-storey form on the corner of Dee and Don Streets.