[WELLINGTON] Chinese property company New Development Group (NDG) has announced plans to build New Zealand's tallest office building in the heart of the country's biggest city, Auckland.

Mayor Len Brown yesterday revealed to The New Zealand Herald newspaper the plan for the 52-level, 209-metre-high skyscraper in the heart of Auckland's central business district.

NDG would build the tower, to be known as NDG Auckland Centre, at a cost of NZ$350 million (S$369.4 million) on the site that had been used as a carpark since the 1980s, Mr Brown told the paper.