2024 Auckland Architecture Awards Winner
Hawaikirangi
What separates Māori architecture from Western architecture today is the cultural imperative for narrative. And so, Māori architecture has emerged as a narrative-based media and, like Whakaata Māori television, shares a responsibility to communicate local stories through the indigenous lens. With Hawaikirangi, the new production and training facility for Whakaata Māori Studios, this lens is literal. The stories inspired by the ancestral homeland are visually expressed in toi art motifs hewn by Carin Wilson and decorate not just entry into the black-boxed world of the studio but also into te ao Māori.
- Practice
- RCG Limited and Studio Pasifika
- Category
- Commercial Architecture
- Location
- Auckland
