LightPathAKL transforms six hundred meters of redundant highway infrastructure into a dynamic cycleway completing a vital link in Auckland?s inner city cycle network.

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Architects: Monk Mackenzie Architects

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Design Team: Dean Mackenzie, Hamish Monk

Area : 600m long

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Russ Flatt

Landscape: LandLAB

Artist: Katz Maihi

Engineer: GHD

Contractor: Hawkins Construction

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From the architect. LightPathAKL transforms six hundred meters of redundant highway infrastructure into a dynamic cycleway completing a vital link in Auckland?s inner city cycle network.
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LightPathAKL was initiated when a study identified the potential of an unused former highway offramp to be repurposed to form the western route of an inner city cycleway and complete Auckland?s inner city cycle network.

Site Plan

Architecturally the project had to work simultaneously at two scales: the macro and the micro - the city and the individual.  The project was also primarily conceived equally as a piece of urban art as it was urban design.

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At the city scale, the project was just one strand, albeit now unused, of a larger and multiple le...