As I love Wellington so much, I hardly ever get a chance to to leave the harbour, but very occasionally I have to leave town (I’m not really much of a flying fish).
I’d heard about these things being installed at Auckland Airport, and I just thought that was typical Jafa bad design in that godawful domestic airport of theirs, but knock me down with a wet kipper: we’ve now got them here in Wellington as well.
You all probably knew about this already – and I can’t believe you’ve been keeping quiet. Is it just me, or isn’t this just…
read the full entryToday Wellington Airport unveiled the design for “The Rock”, an addition to the international terminal. However this is not just a simple expansion/addition, this is to be “New Zealand’s newest icon“.
The $39 million project promises an array of improvements to the airport experience, having doubled the traffic capacity of the international terminal, and added many new facilities. But the pragmatics of the user experience are hardly the focus of the architecture, the design is unashamedly dramatic, demanding pathos, demanding memorability. Looking at the official and public feedback gathered so far, it is certainly producing on those fronts:
“It is incredibly inspiring…
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