Ironbank, Commercial building on Karangahape Road, Auckland, New Zealand

Ironbank is a commercial building on Karangahape Road in Auckland with five vertical towers clad in steel and painted orange. Six office levels sit above a four-level robotic parking system that stores up to 96 vehicles automatically.

Designed by RTA Studio for Samson Corporation, Ironbank was completed in 2009. That year it won three New Zealand Institute of Architects Auckland awards, in the commercial, sustainable and urban design categories sponsored by Resene. It then took second place at the World Architecture Festival, the best result a New Zealand entry had achieved at the event.

The building's container aesthetic drew both criticism and praise: an architecture critic compared it to "kindergarten day in a shipping yard", while urban designer Ludo Campbell-Reid named it among outstanding Auckland buildings since 2000, noting it looks better from the back than the front.

The building sits on a major city street and is easy to reach by car or public transport. Visitors should note that the parking system below is primarily for tenants of the office spaces above.

Architecture critic Ludo Campbell-Reid noted that Ironbank looks better from the back than from the front, and that it is greater than the sum of its parts. He expected it to help re-invigorate Karangahape Road and its backstreets.