As the Commercial Architecture Jury note: “The project is undoubtedly ambitious. Its unprecedented local scale and position has driven its architects to successfully address a plethora of complex, contextual and cultural conditions, whilst setting a world-class standard for major commercial architecture in New Zealand.”
 
This praise was added to by the Urban Design jury’s citation which describes the building’s “enrichment of the greater city context.”
 
“As a development which inadvertently impacts the city due to its scale, the architects of Commercial Bay were able to form their design around a nexus of historical city axes juxtaposed atop a major transport infrastructure node.”