Developer Paul Doole’s Antipodean apartment complex in Beach Rd, Auckland, is modelled on the best London and New York have to offer. It is also one of five major projects that will add more than 1000 units to CBD accommodation in the next year or two.
Like Doole’s other developments, such as the Connaught on Waterloo Quadrant, architect Paul Brown has designed the 161-unit Antipodean with an art deco finish.
The upper levels of the 50m building will have an unobstructed view to the harbour over the leasehold Scene 3, where there is a 30m-height limit.
Doole had a less successful outcome to a planned restoration of Queen St’s majestic St James Theatre. He bought it in 2002 and had plans for an adjacent apartment building.
But a fire ended that project and in 2014 he sold it to Relianz Holdings, which has failed to advance its own restoration plans, including the apartment tower.
Doole has an extensive portfolio of other Auckland CBD properties, a mansion in Remuera and the former Blue Heron Lodge in Orapiu Bay, Waiheke Island.