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Touted as New Zealand's largest and most expensive home is the 30 million dollar mansion located in Coatesville Auckland.
This magnificent property was constructed using Hebel Supercrete 150 Commercial & Industrial Wall Systems, 200 and 250mm Structural Flooring Systems. As you can see from the images,
Hebel Supercrete was worked and moulded to create many of the buildings intricate design features i.e. spiral volutes to arched ceilings, curved scotias, spiral staircases, curved walls,
fire surrounds, window banding and much more. Many parts of the construction used a twin skin technique, using 150mm CIWS panels strapped to a steel portal skeleton on the exterior with
a 300mm cavity and then 150mm CIWS panels as an internal lining giving the wall a 600mm thickness. This resulted in unparalleled acoustic and thermal insulation properties. Many
internal bracing walls and out buildings were constructed using 200 - 300mm Hebel Supercrete blocks.
British couple Richard and Ruth Bradley, who emigrated to New Zealand in 1993, commissioned Parnell architect Greg Noble to construct a "traditional English country home". The couple
were the founders of Christmas hamper company Chrisco and wanted to design "a home away from home".
The four-storey home, which sits on 22.26ha on Mahoenui Valley Rd north of Albany and covers 4459 square metres, took four years to build.
As well as the gift wrapping room it has seven bedrooms, a guest cottage, wine cellar, theatre, garden maze, tennis courts, vineyard and boathouse.
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