Owen G. Glenn Building
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University of Auckland
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, completed in late 2007. It is named after Owen G. Glenn
Owen Glenn
Owen G Glenn ONZM is an expatriate New Zealand businessman and philanthropist, who supports hundreds of humanitarian causes worldwide through his family charity.Owen Glenn did his secondary schooling at Mount Roskill Grammar School, in Auckland....
(ONZM), an expatriate New Zealand businessman, who has in the past donated to a number of philanthropic causes, as well as giving NZ$ 7.5 million to the business school.
The building has 11 levels to serve the teaching and research activities of the school, and has been described as being "a series of layered sinuous blades anchored by a central atrium.".
The lowest levels feature teaching, learning and administrative spaces, while the higher floors contain offices for 287 staff, 80% having individual offices. The basement of the building contains 700 parking spaces.