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Confidential · Andrew Saunders · The White Room _LIVECLAW · 2026
22 Durham Street · Tāmaki Makaurau · Aotearoa April 2026
The White Room
Not a
venue.
A protocol.

This is not a proposal for a lease. This is an invitation to become the founding institutional partner of something that will precede Alberts into every new market the company enters — before the doors open.

22 Durham Street · Former NZ Stock Exchange · 1,560 sqm
BLK/WHT Protocol · First node · Auckland 2026
Documentary · Global scaling · Turnkey for Alberts Group

01 — The Building

Old exchange.
New exchange.

22 Durham Street was built in 1918 as the New Zealand Stock Exchange — the building where New Zealand’s financial future was decided for a century. Depressions. Booms. Crashes. The digital revolution that made the exchange obsolete. The building held through all of it.

“The trade is different.
The weight of the room is the same.”

The Exchange sits 50 metres from The Formery. Luke walks between them every morning during the build. Both buildings in every frame of the documentary. Alberts’ crown jewels — documented cinematically, distributed globally. Every new city Alberts enters, the audience already knows the name.

1,560 square metres. 780 sqm entertainment. 605 sqm restaurant. 175 sqm retail. AUTEX acoustic treatment throughout. The room does not fight sound — it holds it.

02 — The Partnership

Not a landlord.
A founding partner.

Every Alberts tenant gets access to something that doesn’t exist anywhere else in New Zealand. Oracle NZ on Level 18 of 1 Albert Street — 50 metres from a broadcast studio that makes their CEO sound like a Dreamforce keynote. That is not a venue amenity. That is a competitive advantage for every business in the Alberts ecosystem.

“TWR doesn’t serve The Exchange.
It becomes the cultural and innovation engine
for the entire Alberts portfolio.”

Andrew’s partners and tenants fund innovation cohort scholarships — their people inside the most forward-thinking space in New Zealand. The cohort graduates in summer. The Class of 2026. Always welcome back. The network compounds annually.

What Alberts brings
The buildings. The network. The credibility.
The Formery · The Exchange · $650M+ portfolio
Tenant relationships · Andrew’s institutional network
What Alberts becomes
The founding institutional partner of BLK/WHT Protocol.
First right of refusal all future venues globally
Documentary presence in every new market
The documentary return
Every market Andrew enters — they have already seen the film.
The Formery + The Exchange in every frame
International festival circuit · Global distribution
The protocol return
Turnkey. Wellington. Sydney. Melbourne. Global.
BLK/WHT connects every venue · One intelligence layer
Alberts as the property partner for every node
03 — The Technology

Already built.
This document is the proof.

A private AI cluster — eight interconnected projects — runs continuously on Apple Silicon hardware in Auckland. Right now. Algorithmic trading deployed on live capital. 51,122 tracks of music intelligence. Autonomous agents managing documents, relationships, and decisions.

The cluster costs approximately five dollars a day to run. It operates at the level of infrastructure that would cost a corporate five million dollars a year to replicate. That technology advantage sits inside The White Room from opening day.

“One operator. Eight systems. Near-zero marginal cost.
This document was produced by the cluster.
It knows the moment you opened it.”

_LIVECLAW · Private AI Cluster · Live 24/7 · Auckland NZ

04 — The Documentary

The film that
precedes Andrew everywhere.

BLK/WHT — Building the Future of Culture. A 6 to 8 episode docuseries. The build of The White Room from the first conversation to opening night. Tone: Jiro Dreams of Sushi meets The Defiant Ones meets Abstract. Feature cut for the international festival circuit.

Act One
The Negotiation. Luke walks into a boardroom with a private AI cluster, a target headliner, and a proposition that has never been made to a property group before. Alberts is in every frame.
Act Two
The Build. 1,560 sqm. Six months. The technology must work on opening night. The trading floor must process its first live transaction. The cohort must graduate. Luke walks 50 metres between The Formery and The Exchange every morning.
Act Three
The Protocol. Auckland. Wellington. Sydney. Global. BLK/WHT connects every venue. Alberts is the property partner for every node. The documentary tells it. Every new market Andrew enters — they have already seen the film.
05 — The Operator

Thirty-eight years.
One thread.

1988
DJing full time from age 17. Introduced Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills, Adam Beyer, Paul van Dyk, Sasha, Tiesto, and many others to New Zealand. Built the underground from the ground up. Thirty-eight years in music and live experience.
2000 — 2009
Red Bull Studio NZ — built and created the format. Luke built the studio and created the Red Bull Studio Live Sessions programme — his vision, his design, his Malcolm Toft console choice. Voted Red Bull’s best global marketing and culture platform in 2008. In under a decade the programme expanded to 32 countries, producing over 100 sessions a year right here in Aotearoa. 770+ sessions across the run. The Black Keys. Kasabian. Naked and Famous. Chris Knox. The archive, the format, the contracts — Luke’s. Entirely.
2017 — 2020
Semi Permanent NZ — produced for three years. One of the world’s most respected creative and design conferences. The best creative directors, technologists, and founders on the planet in one room. Concurrently: Future of the Future. And On Being Bold — profiling seven of New Zealand’s most powerful women, running through COVID when everything else shut down.
Sky TV
Fan Pass — transformed Sky TV’s live OTT streaming platform. All Blacks + Lions Tour. 11,000 to 111,000 subscribers in 8 months. Sky shut it down — it threatened their core business. Not failure. Proof of concept.
Sideline
Sideline.live — world first in live sailing footage delivery. World Sailing Championships. 300+ boats, three courses, streamed live. 5,000+ grassroots sports events delivered. Closed on his own terms.
2026
_LIVECLAW — eight projects. Private AI. Live capital. A private AI cluster running 24 hours a day on Apple Silicon in Auckland. Algorithmic trading on live capital. 51,122-track music intelligence system. This document was produced by it. It knows when you opened it.
06 — The Protocol

Auckland is
where it begins.

The White Room is not a venue. It is the first node in a global protocol — BLK/WHT — that connects cultural and financial infrastructure across cities. Each venue carries the same intelligence, the same technology, the same standard. Turnkey for Alberts Group.

A documentary precedes every new market. They have already seen the film before the doors open.

TWR · 001
The Exchange
Auckland
22 Durham Street · Former NZ Stock Exchange · 1,560 sqm
Advanced conversations
TWR · 002
The Vault
Wellington
Old bank building · Intact vaults · Bulletproof glass
TWR · 003
Sydney
Melbourne
Alberts Group expansion markets · Turnkey model
BLK/WHT
Global
Protocol
Every venue connected · One intelligence layer · One brand

“This is not a venue proposal.
This is an invitation to be part of
something that has never existed.”

The next step is a conversation.
Everything else follows from that room.

Luke Thompson · liveclaw@pm.me · 027 565 1964 · _LIVECLAW · Auckland

The White Room · 22 Durham Street · Auckland · 2026

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