Thanks to all you keen skaters for your awesome feedback. Our Technical Advisory Committee developed your ideas and these were reviewed by experienced skatepark builders from New Zealand and Australia.
We’re now getting the detailed drawings done so that we can appoint a contractor to start building. You can look forward to using the park by the middle of the year.
Thanks again for your help. Keep visiting the site to check out how the park is progressing.
January 25th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Hey,
Nice work on the park… It looks like the end product will be amazing. I know this is a draft design, but there appears to be some fundamental mistakes in the design. Like, ledges of stairs that are the same height as the top of the stairs, and obstacles too close to each other (less is more!). Also, there appears to be a very features that have no run up or landing?! That’s just a few observations. Anyway, good luck with getting the park finished, overall it looks incredible.
January 25th, 2010 at 11:56 am
wahooo! looks like the bombs a coming .prepare to go to war. nice work people.
January 25th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Love the changes, well done. Now here’s hoping you choose a contractor that specialises in skateparks, not footpaths as they did with Otara.
January 25th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
take out that wave, and replace it with a bank or quater. The wave is facing a wall, and therfore unusable unless u just do lip tricks..
January 26th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
The Ledge by the 9 stair needs some work.
Make the ledge about a foot higher than the top of the stairs. This will make it better for grinds and slides. Also, take out those two trees and have nice smooth concrete in their place. This will allow for skaters to do wheelies or “Manuals” on it.
Another good thing to do there would be making run up on either side of the ledge, so skaters can approach the ledge frontside or backside as the please.
January 28th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
please don’t let a cheap inexperienced contractor blow it like otara. very very specialised stuff. too many failures all over auckland between good design and bad build.. get a pro please… and yaaay wooo!
February 1st, 2010 at 10:49 pm
dimensions for the bowl ?thanks
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:06 pm
this will be an awsome skate park cool final design I cant wait to sk8 it.
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:10 pm
i also agree with john that would be a much better idea 4 a manny pad.plz do that if possible.
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:13 pm
also i forgot 2 say could u put in some better pics from different angles
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Way cool. Manukau is going to rule. My kids and their mates are going to love this place. Yeah, make sure you get an experienced pool/bowl contractor to lay it down. Auckland has had a lot of opportunities ruined by bad builds from lack of experience. Skatepark construction is now on par with yacht building – lets keep the professionalism.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
@martyn i asked tim at Btown about the wave and he told me that it actually goes into vert so its more of a wall ride.. you cant do anything off it. it’s not like the one at owairaka
February 25th, 2010 at 7:04 am
THis looks like a great design to cater for all styles and levels of sakteboarding. If the right contractor is awarded this contract, then this saktepark will be a testament to the foresight of a local government that had the balls to put itself ahead of other city councils like Auckland.
My vote for Super city Mayor will go to Len Brown for sure!
March 15th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Looking good , well done on the whole consultation process it ’s feels good having input into the design , I’m looking foward to havin sum runs there already , could the bowl be done WITHOUT precasting , and please , please , please can we have pool coping around the bowl . not standard pipe coping . cheers .
March 29th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
great work on the design tim hope it all comes together with ease and materials used are of high quality built by a contractor with knowlegde of the skateboarding industry .
my only wish is that you guys put some thought into the safety of the park considering graffitti and yonger skaters getting bullied or gear stolen from them etc . but all together i cant wait to skate ! all the best for the construction and i know there will be pleanty of eyes watching this project in the hope that the end product is success
March 30th, 2010 at 9:20 am
has there been any thought put into lighting ? for the more serious skaters at night , i know durying peak times this park will be packed mainly with young children and familys which is fine but i think the more serious skaters out there would struggle to enjoy the park while it is packed over weekend day time . and maybe some flood ligths that would turn on around 7pm and stay on till 10pm or 11pm over weekends would allow new zealanders up and comers to really train there skills and maybe produce some world ranked skaters . i personally think lighting of the park would really improve this stucture and be the iceing on the cake
March 30th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Yeah totally agree with LLAMA. Lights would be great, especially for winter when it gets dark early
April 20th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
hay
good design, needs a good vert half pipe though
April 21st, 2010 at 9:51 pm
no run up for the 6 block?
May 1st, 2010 at 7:49 pm
put some more angles in like howick skater said there needs to be some security for this park as well for the little kids.
July 5th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
ARE PREMIUM SKATEPARK DESIGN , LEADING THE DISGN CONSTRUCTION ?
HOPE SO AYE , THEIR STR8 UP FOR SKATERS BY SKATERS ……..WE’LL SEE
August 26th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
cool design, replace the wave with a box or sumfing. who designed the disturbing looking bowl?????
August 26th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
sup me n my mate are doing an advertising assignment on the opening of the park. Does anyone have a rough idea of when that will be? end of this year? middle of next year? anything will do I just need something solid to work with…….