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New offices growing greener in slump

Robots park the cars in Ironbank

The Ironbank is one of the country's first high-rise office blocks without air conditioning - but has robots parking cars.

House building climbs by 23 per cent

House consents rise as commercial slumps

New building consent figures point to signs of recovery in house building but show the non-residential sector sinking further into a slump.

<i>Brian Rudman:</i> Distant glimmer of what Queens Wharf could be

Business confidence jump stalls says survey

Space for all the family on a working wharf

<i>Cartoon:</i> Taj clone will fit right in

Ironbank a towering success with three awards

A new building criticised as looking like a pile of rusting containers scooped three architecture prizes last night.

Bittersweet demise of high-flying risk-takers

Settlement stops the rot

Muso's talent has no Enz

Songwriter extraordinaire Neil Finn is also proving himself adept as a property developer.

Lawyers' chambers lovingly restored

Party's over and debts called in for property kings

Failed major developments in New Zealand are piling up, like the Soho Square project in Ponsonby which is now mocked as 'Sohole'.

Collapse of a brick and mortar empire

Monumental losses

Once part of the bricks and mortar of Auckland's cityscape, a range of historic buildings are no more. Alan Perrott looks into their rise and fall.