The Urbanists

The people, places and ideas changing our cities one enclave at a time. In this issue we focus on The Scrap Yard, a small-but-potent commercial development on a back street in Auckland’s Grey Lynn.

JULIA GESSLER

If The Scrap Yard had its own aphorism, it would be that rebirth is a commonly rewarding business. Its born-again story began in 2018 when it was still a demolition and salvage yard on Grey Lynn’s unassuming Westmoreland Street. In that year, it was purchased by Henla Limited, the company behind Auckland developments such as City Works Depot, Osborne Lane and Ponsonby Fire Station, mixed-use establishments that each seem like the building equivalent of a power suit: steely, sharp, confident on a molecular level. An extensive renovation later and the site – its name a nod to its past life – emerged as a modish precinct, sharing the anatomy of these forebears. Now, it, too, is a possessor of brick and concrete and muscular angles, of an industrial-chic style that…

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Urbis (Digital) - 1 Issue, April - May 2020

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